Today's "Teaching" newsletter via The Chronicle highlighted the example of instructor Kimberly Kirner and the developmental-writing workshop model she uses to focus on student voice. I love this so much:
The difference compared to before, she wrote, was dramatic. It eliminated AI use. She also doesn’t use any sort of AI checker. She can tell it’s her student’s voice because they have worked together in class developing it. She was also able to teach them about the ways in which they can use AI and the ways in which it takes away their agency.
“Students have flat out told me that this is the first time many of them have enjoyed writing and built some confidence in years,” she wrote in her post. “Some literally cried at the end of the semester because they felt so much pride in their imperfect work, because it was 100 percent theirs. Not just that they didn’t cheat, but because they felt I valued their ideas, their voice, their gloriously imperfect but oh-so-human work to express their own analytical thoughts.”
This is the whole work of what we do. Practical application of teaching philosophy!
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