Babson College

Babson College is the institutional setting for Teaching students to ‘be better than a robot’. In the episode, Christy Gerdhary is introduced as an associate teaching professor of English and director of the Writing Center there, and The Generator is described as an interdisciplinary faculty group formed at Babson in fall 2023.

The source uses Babson as a case of educators building shared AI teaching norms rather than leaving each instructor to choose between bans, detectors, and unstructured tool use. Its wiki significance is therefore institutional: AI classroom policy becomes a faculty-development and learning-design problem, not only a student-discipline problem.

Key Claims

• Babson is presented as a place where faculty began organized AI conversations soon after chatbots entered classrooms.
• The episode’s Babson example emphasizes writing, values, care, and visible collaboration over simple AI prohibition.
• The group convened more than 30 Boston-area institutions, making the Babson case a local network rather than only one classroom practice.

Connections

• Christy Gerdhary - Babson faculty member interviewed in the episode.
• The Generator - Babson faculty group around AI and teaching.
• AI Writing Pedagogy, Transparent AI Use, and Learning Experience Design - teaching concepts connected to the source.
• Marketplace Tech - show context.