Welcome to the teachers’ lounge, an occasional newsletter to keep you posted about happenings in the data journalism teachers’ club.
This issue:
Date & Time: Friday, October 18, Noon - 2 PM
Location: Online 🌐
Signup link: https://noteforms.com/forms/join-the-book-club-sz34t4
Everyone seems to be talking about AI these days, and many professors are worried about students using ChatGPT to write their assignments. But AI generated text detectors have significant reliability concerns, leaving some educators scratching their heads about what to do.
Join us for an online book club discussion of Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty by James M. Lang. Recommended by Harvard pedagogy experts, this book dives into the research behind what factors lead to student cheating and offers practical, research-backed strategies to design our classes intentionally in ways that create the conditions to more organically promote intrinsic motivation.
Even if you can’t finish the entire book, you're welcome to join! If you’re short on time, we recommend reading the **Introduction and Chapters 2, 5, and 6—**or just come, and we’ll catch you up.
Panel Title: Data Journalism Teachers’ Club: A New Community for Data Journalism Educators
Location: Northeastern University, Boston
Date: Sunday October 27 @ Noon
Registration Required, sign up here:
If you’re in Boston for the 2024 Computation + Journalism Symposium, we’d love to connect in person. This session is primarily to get the word out to those who haven’t been part of the club and to chat about the journey we have taken together so far and where we’ll go next. Whether you’ve been with us since the start or are new to the club, come by and join the conversation or make sure to say hi if you’re in town and want to chat!