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Josh, Well put. Since we read so many of the same writers, including Ishiguro and McLuhan, not surprising that I find myself nodding along. Of your five, the one I feel the least on top of is assessment. I'm all for alternative grading and emphasizing process over product, but I'm trying to work through the question of how augmented writing, where generative AI is incorporated freely into the process, changes my class's peer-review and instructor-review of drafts. No clear answers, other than to include reflection on the use of AI writing tools in the process. I look forward to reading more about your prep for the fall.

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Thanks Rob. Agree there are many questions here about how this impacts assessment and I think it will play an important role in addressing the use of these tools.

Fundamentally for me it all comes back to the reason that students are there. If they’re engaged and owning their own learning then we have a good chance to productively engage these tools. If not, then it will be much more challenging.

I’m looking forward to continuing to think out loud about some of these ideas and will be curious to hear how it lands with you!

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Thanks for the shoutout, Josh! And for the smart advice.

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Thanks Jane. Appreciate you!

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Love the perspective of "engage, not embrace", and how that keeps the focus on your students and holds space for learning, both about how to use the AI but even more so learning the topic at hand

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Thanks, Rania.

I love your callout to the importance of space. I've been thinking a lot more lately about how critical the learning *community* is. It's not just about the student and teacher or the student and the material, but the students in community with each other and trying to cultivate a rich interaction there.

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Oh my goodness! I *just* had this realization literally yesterday when I started another online learning course. I hardly made it through the Intro module before I abandoned it, and I started wondering why I felt so impatient; I loved school as a kid.

Then it hit me: school was a social learning environment. I like learning with *people*, and video content just doesn't cut it the same way.

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