Remi KalirAll day--this Monday of the final week of my semester--I've been having a back-and-forth with a grad student who submitted their final paper copied, almost entirely and without finesse, from ChatGPT. How do I know? With a few simple prompts, I was able to recreate their paper paragraph-for-paragraph, including awkward phrases like "a dynamic landscape of opportunities and challenges." And this cribbed-with-ease-paper was submitted for a class about "Critical Digital Pedagogy," of all things!
Just one among my 26 students, and yet... our exchange has been an embarrassing, dispiriting, and humbling reminder that many profs (including me!) and most students (including adult grad students!) still haven't really figured out what it means to live and learn alongside generative AI.
Fumbling forward, with disease, and I cannot help but think about all the AI hype in education right now, and the many resources and guides and suggested advice for so-called thought leaders, yet the actual work of presence and mentorship remains quite messy.