As an undergraduate, I took a seminar dedicated entirely to Ulysses by James Joyce. Joyce’s modernist novel is mystifying, so question marks hung on the ends of students’ contributions. As we ...
In my US History courses, we usually have a few days of reading-based class discussion each semester. My students read full historical monographs (since it’s a college course), but I often supplement ...
Most of us realize the value of having students participate in class discussions, not only because they can help engage students in class, but also because they can help them gain greater facility ...
Dr. Rachel Mordecai, Associate Professor of Caribbean Literature in English, leverages discussion-based teaching techniques to not only enhance students' critical thinking and understanding of complex ...
The news never slows down, and neither do your students’ questions about it. Every year, educators tell us the same thing: navigating current events in the classroom is one of the hardest parts of the ...
Online discussions are great ways to invite students to reflect on course concepts and engage with their peers. Here, we provide recommendations on how to facilitate effective online discussions, ...
As we approach the fall semester, one thing everyone who is returning to in-person teaching should be thinking about is how they will run discussions. Class discussions have always been complicated, ...
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College students losing ability to participate in class discussions since they offloaded their thinking to AI
It’s well known that students from grade schools to the big universities are increasingly outsourcing their thinking to large language models (LLMs). The consequences are already measurable: ...
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