Write-Up: My Presentation on Generative AI's Effect on Traditional Grades

Hi there!

I know I haven’t been sending along new newsletters in a while. Life has gotten in the way.

But I do want to get back into a habit of interacting here on Substack. And I love my community on here.

To ease into things, I want to share the slides for my recent webinar with The Learning Curve. I talked about the role generative AI is playing, in rethinking traditional assessment. I argue that we can’t stop at revising our assignments (though we DO need to do that). we need to also rethink our approach to assessment itself, and rethinking grading is a part of that.

Here are the first 8 slides.

To get them, you can click on a slide and scroll through them.

And here are the remaining slides:

And if it’s easier, here’s the Gamma link. You should be able to get all the links by clicking through that shared presentation.

Click here for the presentation slides!

I know I’ve already written on here about the importance of chipping away at the transactional model of education, to adapt to AI. I think the continued emergency of agentic AI programs (see Anna Mills’s work on this) and AI Graders (both AI-assisted grading and auto-graders) make this need even more urgent.