The Grading Podcast 44 - Artificial Intelligence And Alt Grading: Challenges and Opportunities
If you base your grades on "authentic assessment of student work", then what do you do when technology catches up to the point where AI can do BETTER work than your students? And what about AI that can help the instructor do better work? Better feedback, easier workloads?
In this episode, Sharona and Bosley share some initial thoughts and resources on how AI is going to impact the Alt Grading world. Come help start the conversation about authentic assessment and look at the potential benefits of AI as well.
Links
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- Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning, by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson
- Thinking With and About AI - Episode 517 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, with C. Edward Watson
- AI Teaching Assistant Pro - an AI powered app for instructors
- AI Tutor Pro - an AI powered app for students
- Bloom's Taxonomy - a guide by the Vanderbuilt University Center for Teaching
- How to Use Norman Webb's Depth of Knowledge Framework
- Chat GPT 3.5
- Prompt Engineering - Get better results from large language models
- GPT 3.5 vs GPT 4: Biggest Differences to Consider
- American Association of Colleges and Universities: Essential Learning Outcomes
- Khanmigo by Khan Academy
- NCTM Position Statement on AI
- The Homework Apocalypse (Great Prompts in this article)
- AI Education and AI in Education - from the National Science Foundation
- Update Your Course Syllabus for chatGPT
- From AI to A+: Prepare Your Students for Using ChatGPT and other AI
- Machine Learning and the Five Big Ideas in AI
Resources
The Grading Conference - an annual, online conference exploring Alternative Grading in Higher Education & K-12.
Some great resources to educate yourself about Alternative Grading:
Recommended Books on Alternative Grading (Please note - any books linked here are likely Amazon Associates links. Purchasing through them helps support the show. Thanks for your support!):
- Grading for Growth, by Robert Talbert and David Clark
- Specifications Grading, by Linda Nilsen
- Undoing the Grade, by Jesse Stommel
- Grading for Equity, by Joe Feldman
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