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As AI Chatbots Rise, More Educators Look to Oral Exams — With High-Tech Twist

ED Surge

As educators have looked to alternatives to assigning essays, one idea that has bubbled up is to bring back oral exams. And oral evaluations of student learning do still happen occasionally — like when graduate students defend their theses and dissertations. I can only really do four at a time, and then I need a brain break.

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Does alternative grading make cheating more likely?

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

This post first appeared at Grading For Growth on March 13. Instructors are concerned about academic dishonesty like never before. First during the Big Pivot to online instruction in 2020 and continuing today with the rise of generative AI like ChatGPT, the opportunities to cheat have never been so readily available.

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Harnessing The Future of AI without Losing Our Way

Cool Cat Teacher

Interactive, game-based lessons designed by experienced educators help you engage students at all grade levels and bring critical real-world skills like financial education, early literacy, character education, health & wellness, and more to your classroom. initiative. And Pat, you're right in the middle of this.

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Grading in my Discrete Mathematics class: a 3x3x3 reflection

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

This article originally appeared back in December at Grading for Growth , a blog about alternative grading practices that I co-author with my colleague David Clark. I post there every other Monday (David does the other Mondays). Click here to subscribe and get Grading for Growth in your email inbox, free, once a week.

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

Ed was someone who wanted to independently figure things out for himself, and delighted in presenting his often somewhat-outlandish conclusions—whether about technology, science, business or the world—with dramatic showman-like panache. He used to like to tell people I’d learned a lot from him. I’d politely ask for details.