A primary friction point for tenured faculty is the hidden curriculum of administrative labor - committee reports, grant formatting, and departmental documentation. New Google Workspace for Education updates focus on streamlining these repetitive tasks.
For Discussion:
- How might we use Gemini in Docs to de-clutter our administrative workload (e.g., drafting initial committee summaries or formatting grant citations)?
- Does offloading much of the administrative tasks to AI help you reclaim time for deep, navigational inquiry with your students, or does it simply create more room for more repetitive tasks?
