ChatGPT And Us: Faculty Lounge Edition

Office Hours Higher Ed

This week David and Laura are flying solo for a "Faculty Lounge" episode. Our topic: ChatGPT and Us. How do we respond to ChatGPT as academic workers with a radical critique of higher ed? Using recent think pieces by Corey Robin and Steven Salaita as jumping-off points, we reflect on the lack of a collective labor politics in most writing on ChatGPT; the positionality of our working-class students and their alienation from the learning experience; ChatGPT as an extension of the neoliberalization of higher ed; and why we identify with "cheaters."

Please note: we are including two groups of links below: one on ChatGPT and one providing links to educational resources on Gaza and Palestine.

Links on ChatGPT:

Steven Salaita, "Yet Another Think-Piece on ChatGPT"

Corey Robin, "How ChatGPT Changed My Plans For the Fall"

JILL R. EHNENN AND CAROLYN BETENSKY, "ChatGPT and Academic Labor"

Resources for Teaching on Gaza During an Attempted Genocide:

https://teachpalestine.org/- a project of the Middle East Children's Alliance. Many useful links for educators such as:

https://teachpalestine.org/resources/videos/- docs and films useful for the classroom

https://teachpalestine.org/resources/books-for-educators/ - books for educators

https://palestinett.org/ - "The Palestine Teaching Trunk" - teaching materials designed for high school, but could be used in higher ed as well

visualizingpalestine.org/ -interactive posters that use statistics and other data to illustrate aspects of Palestinian life under Israeli rule.

Listeners: Please share your thoughts on ChatGPT with us! You can find us on Instagram @officehourshighered or on Twitter @officehoursed.

Fellow Educators: If you have more resources on teaching Palestine, the history of colonialism in the Middle East, and the history of anti-colonial movements - let us know and we will gladly share them.