Your Career: Should AI be part of the assignment?

How to get students to disclose and evaluate their use of tools like ChatGPT. ADVERTISEMENT [Your Career Logo]( You can also [read this newsletter on the web](. Or, if you no longer want to receive this newsletter, [unsubscribe](. How to get students to disclose and evaluate their use of tools like ChatGPT Learning requires friction, resistance, and even failure. Research has shown that students benefit from doing increasingly challenging tasks to enhance their learning. But ChatGPT removes many of those desirable difficulties by offering the user a frictionless experience: Prompt AI with a question and get an instant answer. The student’s brain offloads everything to an algorithm. Given that reality, how can you as a faculty member respond? One strategy: Introduce a bit of intentional friction into your students’ use of AI. As part of an assignment, require students to critically evaluate how they used the technology and how it affected their writing process. That way, they aren’t just passively relying on AI-generated content but meaningfully assessing its role in their writing. Students’ usage of a tool like ChatGPT often obscures the most critical aspects of their writing process, leaving the instructor uncertain about which skills were used. So try creating a form to guide students in evaluating how they used human versus machine skills on a particular assignment. Offer them a range of options to characterize whether and how they used AI tools to do the work. For detailed advice, continue reading: “[Make AI Part of the Assignment]( by Marc Watkins Share your suggestions for the newsletter with Denise Magner, an editor at The Chronicle, at denise.magner@chronicle.com. ADVERTISEMENT Subscribe to The Chronicle Enjoying the newsletter? [Subscribe today]( for unlimited access to essential news, analysis, and advice. 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