About the Consortium
We are a group of teachers from Nebraska community colleges who invite other developmental English and math faculty and instructional support staff to build this state-wide community that shares resources and energizes one another. Please explore the website & attend the conference. To contribute a resource or idea, email us: staff@nebraskadeved.org.
From Our Blog
Four Principles of AI: Policing and Empowering its Use
Rachel Hruza, Mary Steinberger, Tanner Lemrick, Wendy Weitzel, Susan McDowall, and Phip Ross INTRODUCTION Phip Ross We are somewhere in the early stages of facing AI or Large Language Model (LLM) based text generators. We as instructors of writing are generating more questions than answers, and the answers I have struggled to answer feel reactionary…
Jet Engines in Driver’s Ed: Navigating Writing Instruction in the Emerging AI Age
Mary Steinburg It’s the first week of the semester. My image plays for students, facilitating a reflective discussion about integrity, what it means, and how it will be relevant as students navigate my class and choose how to use AI tools. On the recording, I say, “I need you to know that I care about…
The Interwoven Fabric of Our Humanity
Eder Jaramillo What is pedagogy? What does it even mean? Is it strictly an academic term? Or can it also inform the personal side of everyday teaching? These fundamental questions and our pursuit of the relentless answers encapsulates the life of community college instruction. The following poem thus explores this very complexity of our pedagogy.…