Geological Observatory of Coldigioco
PennState, The Dickinson School of Law: Penn State Law eLibraryNot a member yet
7581 research outputs found
Sort by
Shaping Future Lawyers: Integrating Gen AI in the Research & Writing Process to Teach Law Practice Technology
No full textIn this interactive workshop, we will demonstrate how we built a Law Practice Technology class using the existing and familiar structure of the writing process to allow our students to learn about, use, and experiment with generative AI. We\u27ll explore the tools and practices that we used, those our students used, and those things that we wished we had used. Through hands-on activities that mirror the student experience in our class, you\u27ll gain a deeper understanding of how we used Gen AI in our course and how you can adopt them to your own courses
Anticipating the Needs of Future Law Students Based on Current Post-Pandemic National Reading Comprehension Test Scores
No full textThe current state of education in the elementary, middle, and high school levels regarding students’ reading comprehension skills is bleak. Post-pandemic scores are showing up to a thirty-year backslide in reading comprehension testing scores. These concerning decreases do not bode well for students who may enter law schools one day. Let’s anticipate those needs by thinking ahead of ways to remedy potential shortcomings.
Reading comprehension is tied closely to the skills of critical reading and thinking. Other scholars have written extensively in the legal academia field about critical reading and thinking. In fact, no one likely would dispute that critical reading and thinking are necessary skills for law students and lawyers. However, this article ties reading comprehension to these other skills and discusses the ramifications of current national testing for reading comprehension to potential deficits in those skills in future years.
I have had the opportunity to teach a remedial upper-level course that has experimented with the teaching methodologies of modeling, scaffolding, and assessments to help students needing additional help with critical reading, critical thinking, and writing after the first year of law school. The article discusses how the remedial instruction could be implemented broadly across the first-year curriculum, which importantly would address more systemic deficiencies with reading comprehension, critical reading, and critical thinking earlier in law students’ experiences. This article, therefore, is a call to action for law schools to begin to plan ahead and provides some feasible techniques to address future students’ needs in regard to reading and thinking
