The Generator

The Generator is the interdisciplinary faculty group at Babson College discussed by Christy Gerdhary in Teaching students to ‘be better than a robot’. It began in fall 2023 as a venue for thinking about how AI tools affect classrooms and daily life.

The group’s wiki significance is that it turns AI pedagogy into shared institutional practice. The source says the group received modest funding and convened educators from more than 30 Boston-area institutions for sessions on values-based AI approaches, an ethic of care, and student perspectives that resisted the simple “cheating machine” frame.

Key Claims

• Faculty AI response can be collective and values-based rather than isolated by course.
• Student perspectives matter because students may see AI as more than a cheating device.
• Care-centered AI policy has to consider AI Detector Bias and the risk of punishing already marginalized students.
• The group’s work supports AI Writing Pedagogy and Transparent AI Use by giving instructors practical assignment patterns rather than only tool restrictions.

Connections

• Babson College - institutional home.
• Christy Gerdhary - faculty member associated with the group in the source.
• AI Writing Pedagogy, Transparent AI Use, AI Detector Bias, and AI Literacy Against Worship - concepts connected to the group’s approach.
• Marketplace Tech - source show.