Christy Gerdhary

I'm Christy Gerdherry.

I am an associate teaching professor of English and director of the Writing Center at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

So at Babson, I work with an interdisciplinary group of faculty called The Generator.

And so The Generator kind of started in fall 2023, and we just started having conversations around how are these tools impacting what's happening in the classrooms, in our daily lives, and

We got some modest funding, and so we had over 30 institutions from all around the Boston area that came together for a day.

And for the first Tea Party, we had a session on values-based approaches to AI technology.

Another session led about leading with like an ethic of care about how AI detectors tend to flag already marginalized students more often.

And then also brought in a panel of students really blowing up notions that it's just a cheating machine.

And it's something for us to work through together.

I kind of have a mantra going with my students now, but I always say, like, you have to be better than a robot.

We talk about prompt engineering, and I, do you think that that's kind of a misnomer?

Like, the engineering part happens somewhere else.

Like, that's writing.

And I want my students to be able to understand the difference of effective outputs and not effective outputs.

So one assignment we do in our first year writing class is called a remediation, where students go back to something they'd previously written, remix it into something new.

I had students first just letting AI remediate your work.

And the next one was, I want you to collaborate with AI and like literally color code.

What's yours?

What's the bots?

And the third one was,