Maura Hametz is a professor of history at James Madison University. She first incorporated the Wikipedia Assignment in fall 2025. Teaching is about knowledge acquisition. AI is a tool for knowledge acquisition. So, why is generative AI the subject of so much angst for me and my students? In my undergraduate upper division history classes, the Wikipedia Assignment is a forum to explore how, why, and where we acquire knowledge and, hopefully, to…
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