Design assignments that explicitly specify which tasks may be delegated to AI and which may not¶

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Description¶

The article's relational co-agency recommendation: assignment prompts, not individual students, should define the human-AI division of labor. In the Section 4.5 illustration, 'the assignment prompt specifying which tasks could be delegated to the AI (e.g., summarizing individual sources) and which could not (e.g., creating an argument linking all the individual sources to the research question).' This makes the division of labor transparent and is one of the two stated requirements for relational co-agency.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Transparent description of who decided which tasks are assigned to AI versus students

Constraints¶

• The article notes answers are not universal; a First-Year Writing course and a doctoral research methods course will define labor differently

Target Learners¶

• undergraduate students

Target Learning Goals¶

• academic writing
• epistemic agency

Affordances¶

• Ecological Co Agency Framework

Related Strategies¶

• Institutions should define generative-AI prohibitions by function, distinguish generation from format conversion, and require validated evidential methods before sanctions
• Allocate human and AI effort by dimension type: automate explicit-criteria dimensions, retain human review for pedagogical judgment

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Poudyal, B. (2026). Reclaiming Epistemic Agency: A Critical Framework for Human-Generative AI Co-Agency in Education. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7210-5480