Derek Bruff’s Six Questions

As I said in the video, please take a look at Derek Bruff’s Assignment Makeovers in the AI Age: Essay Edition blog post. He also has a Reading Response Edition post, but I think the six-questions framework is transferable to a range of assignments. He then does a deep-dive into applying this framework to one of his assignments.

Northern Michigan University

Next, read through NMU’s page on Creating AI-Resistant Assignments, Activities, and Assessments. With the range of suggestions, hopefully there will be several that work for you.

Additional Resources

Ethan Mollick has a blog post provocatively titled “The Homework Apocalypse” that outlines how homework is dead, as I’ve heard him say in one video, and some ways instructors can respond. On the other hand, he talks about how “AI can even act as an excellent writing mentor that can provide the kind of detailed feedback that teachers are hard-pressed to give,” and gives a detailed prompt that can be fed to ChatGPT to this end.
Along with the blog above, Derek Bruff discusses assignment makeovers on an episode of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.