Christy Gerdhary

Christy Gerdhary is the Babson College associate teaching professor of English and Writing Center director interviewed in Teaching students to ‘be better than a robot’. Her role in the wiki is to add a classroom-writing version of AI literacy: students should not only avoid cheating, but learn to judge AI output, disclose mixed authorship, and create work that carries human context a chatbot cannot supply.

Gerdhary also works with The Generator, an interdisciplinary Babson faculty group that convened educators around AI’s effects on classrooms and daily life. Her comments connect AI teaching to care and equity because she warns that AI detectors can disproportionately flag marginalized students.

Key Claims

• Students need to become “better than a robot” by understanding what AI can and cannot do.
• Prompt engineering is partly a writing skill because it requires audience, purpose, specificity, revision, and judgment.
• Assignments can make AI use explicit by asking students to compare, color-code, and transform work rather than hide tool use.
• Strong AI classroom practice should account for AI Detector Bias instead of treating detectors as neutral proof of misconduct.

Connections

• Babson College and The Generator - institutional setting for her AI teaching work.
• Marketplace Tech - source show.
• AI Writing Pedagogy, Transparent AI Use, and AI Detector Bias - concepts her comments add.
• First Draft Thinking, AI Shortcut Risk, and Human Judgment Under AI - adjacent AI education and judgment branch.