Essay #2 is more vulnerable. And I’m teaching this online, which adds risk. I almost scrapped it and did something else. But I *like* this assignment! I like what it does.

So I decided to keep it and see what happens. We may well end up with more signs of cheating. But the emails are heartening.

I have well-explained policies against using LLMs. (And we grade on content, not writing technique.) My hope is that the specificity makes them less useful.

It’s been a few years since I taught a class where LLM cheating is a real risk. Essay #1 went well, with very little noticeable usage. Still,

They also spend space on what they think should happen, based on personal stances and what they’ve learned about social life. (They have practice combining the two.)

They must cite sources, and the only sources that count are course material, class time included, and their observations/my handout.

FYI: It’s one of two short essays. #1, they make observations in an unfamiliar setting for 30-60 minutes, take notes & photos, and analyze what they saw using course material. #2, I provide a page of info about a current social issue or problem that connects to multiple weeks, and they explain it.

So I have a guess about what the top is trying to show and no idea about the bottom, but either way can we assume they’re including ADHD meds as psych drugs? Maybe even all ADHD drugs, not just the two people think of the most? Because if so there’s a problem with the question.

Agreed: at the least.

People keep asking me what I think of being a professor in Canada instead of the US right now, and when I say that in the US I don’t think I could offer my next term’s classes, or teach relevant research findings in Intro, they treat my response as a joke. It’s not.

to safely dispose of these hats, eat them. natural fibers — such as cotton, wool, silk, and linen — breakdown in the digestive track. synthetics do not. thus, if you eat your hat, the synthetics will pass through the other side. smush through the poop to find the synthetic fibers and recycle them.

As an extra, the vision of education held by the relevant regent, a former commercial litigant: “Curriculum is created and approved based on the accepted body of knowledge needed for our students to be successful in their chosen profession…It is unacceptable for other material to be taught instead.”

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Fall 2024 book. It includes discussion of the economics, but that’s not its focus.

(Posted by someone wishing this were a more common legal standard.)