Designing Assignments That Keep Students Thinking
AI can generate information. Learning happens when students evaluate it. Rather than trying to design assignments that prevent AI use, faculty can design assignments that make student thinking visible. The goal isn't to outsmart AI, it's to create opportunities for students to explain, justify, evaluate, and apply their thinking in ways that reflect genuine learning.
What Counts as Evidence of Learning?
AI is forcing a question that higher education has been able to avoid for a long time: What actually counts as evidence that learning happened? Because for years, many assignments have focused heavily on the final product: