It's upheaval, but it's good overall, I think. I'm enjoying figuring out where students should and shouldn't use AI, and also--holy crap--ChatGPT can write quiz questions like nobody's business. :)

I also use it for coming up with ideas for class, and asking it to challenge my knowledge on a topic. (Just be sure to verify all its claims!)

Still trying to figure out how to convince students that the act of writing is so valuable to them that they really should do it. Something that kinda works on college students is the idea that anything easily done with AI will pay no money. So they'd better get their asses in gear and do the hard work if they want to pay off that enormous loan.

This quarter I'm having them do some low-risk (i.e. hard to be wrong, not graded on style) short writing assignments. I'm hoping that it's easier for them to write the low-risk thing than is it to try to come up with a good prompt. Also I've asked them for their personal opinion of the topics explicitly which might make them a little less comfortable to ask an AI to speak on their behalf.

With AI, though, I think we're going to have to start small and really work people back up to writing bigger essays. If you just jump in, they'll just punt to AI. And nothing takes the wind out of my sails faster than someone telling me I have to grade a bunch of shit written by ChatGPT.