Maybe More Than Words needs a young adult version and a picture book edition? (I'm only 20% joking.)

It seems like providing students the language they need to be self-advocates could be useful. They don't know how to frame their argument to their teachers in a way that would be well-received, based on what students value compared to their teachers' values.

I’m also a parent with a 5th grader who loves writing, so I’m watching what her school is doing and trying to think about how I would support her. She doesn’t want to use AI. But a parent can advocate in ways other adults in a student’s life can’t. No answers here, just thinking out loud on bsky!

It’s not the professors who demand compliance, but the students who assume they have no other options but compliance. A different issue than in high school and younger, but connected maybe.

Yeah, I’m in higher ed. It gets trickier for younger students, especially in high school. I think a lot of our first year college students come with a fear of disobeying the teacher that they learn in high school. In that case, compliance is sort of self-imposed bc of the patterns of earlier ed.

The folks who provide professional development for instructors at my institution usually advise that faculty have an alternate assignment that meets the learning goals for students to complete w/o AI if they object to using it. Not sure how often that happens in practice or how transparent it is.