Ending Strong: Considerations for Your Last Day of Class
Does your class end with a bang or a whimper?
Regan A. R. Gurung
December 4, 2023
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Writers often evoke movies to describe the threats posed by artificial intelligence. Although AI has been around in many of the products we have used for some time,
In Rasselas, Samuel Johnson’s philosopher Imlac offers the following bleak assessment of life: “Human life is every where [sic] a state in which much is to be endured,
Most instructors breathe an inner sigh when they see a roomful of students on laptops in their classroom. Students say that they are taking notes, but we know
“I use my last class to celebrate the shared humanity of our classroom community. There is no hiding behind platitudes. Students speak and tell their stories of failure, hope, gratitude, and intention. With the final sounding of the bell, I ring students out into the world, not as an assembly of letter grades, but as beings of intellect, heart, and spirit.”
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