It’s well known that students from grade schools to the big universities are increasingly outsourcing their thinking to large language models (LLMs). The consequences are already measurable: ...

One of Kevin Gannon’s favorite class discussion activities doesn’t involve much talking. Inspired by complete-the-story games in which players each write a line of a tale that builds off a previous ...

As an undergraduate, I took a seminar dedicated entirely to Ulysses by James Joyce. Joyce’s modernist novel is mystifying, so question marks hung on the ends of students’ contributions. As we ...

Picture a successful discussion in an in-person class. What do you see? Often we imagine an instructor standing at the front of the room or walking around the class, guiding students through a series ...

In my US History courses, we usually have a few days of reading-based class discussion each semester. My students read full historical monographs (since it’s a college course), but I often supplement ...

Discussion posts are a common assignment in college classes. While they might be assigned with the intention of fostering student engagement, most prompts do little to further college students’ ...

Knowing what you want your students to be able to do, will help you determine which type of questions to ask. But facilitating a meaningful discussion after the initial question is posed also requires ...

I read with interest Anna Broadbent’s essay on the benefits and pitfalls of class participation grades. From my perch as a provost, former dean and former department chair, I find that the grade for ...