As I noted previously, I noticed for the first time this summer that students were using generative AI in their writing assignments for my class. So, for the first time, I will include a policy statement on student use of AI in my class syllabi this fall. I tried to embrace the reality of AIContinueContinue reading “Policy on Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) by Students”
Category Archives: Students
Using AI to Generate an AI Use Policy for College Student Writing
In my Introduction to Sociology course this summer, I noticed for the first time signs that students were using AI software to generate responses to writing assignments. Having read student writing for over 25 years now, I know the “voice” of AI-generated text differs from the “voice” of undergraduate student-generated text. In the olden times,ContinueContinue reading “Using AI to Generate an AI Use Policy for College Student Writing”
“New Glaze” by Zali Lawrence
As I travel around the country this summer, I am teaching an online, asynchronous “Introduction to Sociology” course at Wake Forest University. For the first module, we are considering Peter Berger’s famous idea in Invitation to Sociology, “It can be said that the first wisdom of sociology is this–things are not what they seem.” OneContinueContinue reading ““New Glaze” by Zali Lawrence”
Battling the Cell Phone Menace in Class for a Decade Now
Facebook’s wayback machine (“On this Day” app) reminded me this morning that I have been battling students using their cell phones in class for a long time now. I know some professors don’t care if students use their phones in class. Fine by me; their class, their rules. And some are just unaware. Many WakeContinueContinue reading “Battling the Cell Phone Menace in Class for a Decade Now”
Putting Grading and Grades in Perspective
The quickening of life due to technology is a blessing I depend on daily. But it is also a curse at times, especially at the end of the semester when it comes to grades. I submitted my fall grades today at 11:45am (they were due at noon!). By 4pm the first grade complaint had arrivedContinueContinue reading “Putting Grading and Grades in Perspective”
A Letter to My Future Students
I am participating in a faculty Writing Associates Seminar, in which we are learning to integrate writing more intelligently and productively into our courses. For an upcoming retreat, our seminar leader asked us to write a letter to our future students about what we hope they will get out of our class. I wrote theContinueContinue reading “A Letter to My Future Students”
Contemporary Application of Bourdieu’s Distinction in Musical Taste
In his famous book Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, Pierre Bourdieu reports findings from a French survey of cultural tastes fielded in 1967-68. Of particular note is a figure showing the distribution of preferences for three musical works by class fractions. Bourdieu reports that Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” represents “legitimate taste” andContinueContinue reading “Contemporary Application of Bourdieu’s Distinction in Musical Taste”
Sociological Theory Student Survey Updating Bourdieu
OK, Wake Forest Sociological Theory students. You asked for it, you got it. Listen to the following three songs and complete the survey at the bottom of this blog post! http://youtu.be/ViwtNLUqkMY http://youtu.be/IBH97ma9YiI http://youtu.be/MYxAiK6VnXw http://www.wedgies.com/question/534d6951305268020000067f Thanks for participating!!!!
Evidence Shows The Fraternity Experience is The Problem
Posted by John D. Foubert, Ph.D. , Author, The Men’s and Women’s Programs at Ending Rape Through Peer Education on April 29, 2011 at 7:15am EDT In 2007 I published a study of men who join fraternities, comparing their rates of sexual assault before they join and after they join. Before they join, their ratesContinueContinue reading “Evidence Shows The Fraternity Experience is The Problem”
Drinking in Exam Week Hurts College Students’ Performance
Stop the presses! This shocking news from “Inside Higher Education”: Drinking in Exam Week Hurts College Students’ Performance College students who drink before and during their final exams show a “statistically and economically meaningful reduction in academic performance” — “of approximately the same magnitude as being assigned to a professor whose quality is one standardContinueContinue reading “Drinking in Exam Week Hurts College Students’ Performance”