Recent advances in artificial intelligence have led many instructors to reconsider their pedagogical strategies.

Many of us are currently devising syllabi and assignments for academic year 2023-2024, and so I thought it would be useful to build a mechanism for philosophers, if they wish, to share the pedagogical changes that they plan to make in light of AI, along with their rationales.

To share your ideas, click here.

As you will see, I’ve asked for some basic information about the course(s) in which you plan to make these changes, since one’s strategies may vary for different kinds of courses.

Let me try to forestall a possible objection. Someone might think that aggregating and publicizing strategies like this is a bad idea, on the grounds that students who plan to commit academic misconduct might get access to it and thereby gain some advantage. In response, I’d say that a brief, general account of pedagogical changes (e.g. “I plan to have more in-class presentations and oral exams and fewer take-home essay assignments”) won’t help a student to cheat. Moreover, the pedagogical strategies that one intends to use with one’s students will become apparent to them anyway when the semester begins.

If you have feedback about this tool for sharing pedagogical ideas, please feel free to email me at kraay@torontomu.ca.

Originally appeared on The Philosophers’ Cocoon Read More