A HARVEST KERNEL WORKING SESSION
The Draw and Defend Assignment
Bring one assignment you are worried about this term, the one where a polished submission no longer tells you much. In about 25 minutes you will leave holding a finished assignment sheet: an AI boundary sentence for students, one page instructions, three defense questions, a two criterion rubric and a reflection prompt. You do the designing. Nothing here designs it for you, and nothing you type leaves this page.
Why this exists. On September 21, 2026, the journal Discover Artificial Intelligence published a study of 76 undergraduates in three cohorts of an Educational Technology course at a public university in Oman. Students brainstormed with AI, with disclosure, then drew their understanding on one page by hand as a group and defended it in a gallery walk while classmates asked questions and scored it against a rubric. Being questioned out loud showed up as a source of accountability in all 23 groups. This session builds that sequence into one assignment you already teach.
SEED
Pick the assignment and draw the AI line
Choose one assignment where you can no longer tell from the submission alone whether the thinking is the student’s own. Name the one idea every student must be able to explain when it is done. Then write the sentence students read first: where AI is welcome in this assignment, and where it stops.
SPROUT
Write the one page instructions
The page is the bottleneck. Generated prose cannot fill it, so students have to choose. Say how many course concepts the page must show and how every connection has to appear. Then say out loud that drawing skill is not graded, because students worry about it.
GROW
Plan the defense and the rubric
The defense is where the evidence lives. Decide who explains, for how long, and who asks. Write three questions that only the person who made the choices on the page can answer. Then describe what a 4 looks like on each of two criteria, concepts visible and connections explicit, each scored 1 to 4.
HARVEST
Close the loop, then build the sheet
The page and the defense belong to the group. The reflection belongs to each student. Write one prompt every student answers alone: what they learned, and where the page or the questions changed their mind.
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When the whole course is the problem
The Assessment Builder builds assignments, rubrics and tagged question banks, grounded in your Course Record: your course, your outcomes, your policies and your voice, planted once and used by every tool in the toolkit. Bring the sheet you built today as the pattern. Do the first one by hand anyway. Then you will know exactly what every redesigned assignment has to ask for.