Webinar: Assessment in Online and Blended Contexts by Dr. Brenna Clarke Gray
Channel: BrockCPI
Date: 2023-10-30

Snipe Hunting: Generative AI, Assessment Practice, and the Bogeyman We Made Ourselves

Did you ever get sent on a snipe hunt at summer camp: told to catch a mystery prey that didn’t really exist? To me, assessment design in the age of generative AI feels a lot like that, but I think you probably have a lot of the most useful strategies in your toolbox already. In this session, we’ll talk about all the ways the good assessment practices you already know can also work to mitigate against the advent of tools like ChatGPT, and we’ll spend a bit of time talking about how universities got to this place of panic and hype. Together, we’ll imagine the best assessment design we can for our current situation, and then we’ll talk about the ways our best intentions get compromised by context and circumstance.

Brenna Clarke Gray is Coordinator, Educational Technologies at Thompson Rivers University, where her research interests include the pedagogical implications of generative AI, the history and future of open tenure processes, the role of care and care work in the practice of educational technology, and scholarly podcasting. Prior to her transition to faculty support, she spent nine years as a community college English professor and comics scholar. She holds a PhD in Canadian Literature from the University of New Brunswick. Outside of the academy's walls, Brenna co-hosts Hazel&Katniss&Harry&Starr, a podcast about young adult literature and film adaptation, and pretends at the role of a public intellectual on social media, when you can find her many places – but not Elon’s X – as @brennacgray.