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Artificial Intelligence: ChatGPT and Beyond: AI and Teaching

Generative AI - Action Plan

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AI 101 For Teachers

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Teaching with AI

What are some ways to incorporate AI into teaching?

Makris,  M., Mickelson, N. & Coughlan, R.  (2023, April 27). Pedagogy to prepare for the AI revolution (opinion). Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/04/27/readying-students-ai-revolution

  • Teach students to learn to adapt their learning to future needs
  • Design assignments that integrate students' experiences 
  • Create opportunities for original research

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Northern Illinois University. Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning. ChatGPT and education.   An overview of ChatGPT along with information for educators; What can ChatGPT do?  What can ChatGPT NOT do? (Yet!)  What can faculty do? and more.  

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Anders, B. [Suggestions via Twitter.] 

Have students create questions dealing with a class topic & post the question to ChatGPT.  Have the students use predefined criteria to evaluate AI responses.  Incorporate critical thinking, ethical considerations, methods (language model used/data sources) & prompt skill development. 

Anders also suggests that “student do part of the writing process in class.” 

Teachers should try out their assignments using ChatGPT.  If ChatGPT can complete the assignment, perhaps the assignment needs revision.

Ask ChatGPT: What are some active learning methods to teach __ [insert your class topic]___. It will give you suggestions

Cannity, D. (2022, December 28).  From email to INSTECH discussion list on Chat GPT. (Used with permission- Condensed by Ilene Frank). Suggestions for dealing with ChatGPT: 

Use assignments that are very specific or unique -  and recent.  Chat GPT’s data is about a year old.  (As of December 2022).

Ask questions that ChatGPT can’t discuss. It is programmed (for now) to avoid controversial topics.

Focus on process questions: “Which applies better and why” or “explain the statement and why you think it means that” or which solution to a problem is more appropriate and why.”

Engage students in activities that bots can’t experience and consider application essays “What I learned by doing X”.

Scaffold work so that written papers are only a component of the final assessment.

Involve ChatGPT: Ask students to generate a paper and use their knowledge about the topic to correct it – including identifying and correcting misinformation, including citations.

As a fun test, I also gave the prompt "What should instructors do to prevent cheating using ChatGPT?" to ChatGPT, and this is the response it gave:

“ChatGPT is a chatbot that uses natural language processing (NLP) to generate responses based on a given prompt. It could potentially be used to cheat on exams or assignments by generating answers to questions. Here are some strategies that instructors can use to prevent cheating using ChatGPT or other similar tools:

1.      Make it clear that cheating, including the use of chatbots or other AI tools, is not acceptable and will result in consequences.

2.      Use a variety of assessments, such as open-book exams, take-home exams, or oral exams, to make it more difficult for students to cheat.

3.      Use plagiarism detection software, such as Turnitin, to detect copied work and ensure that students are submitting their own original work.

4.      Monitor students closely during exams to ensure that they are not using ChatGPT or other technologies to cheat.

5.      Consider using proctored exams, in which a proctor monitors students during the exam to prevent cheating.

6.      Educate students about the consequences of cheating and the importance of academic integrity.

 

Charlie’s Lessons. (2022, December 14). ChatGPT Teacher Tutorial: AI for your ESL class!  YouTube. 

Examples of using ChatGPT to produce formal, more informal text and then asking ESL students to describe the differences in use of language. Includes an example of using grammar.com to analyze the texts produced by ChatGPT.

D'Augstino, S. (2023, January 12). ChatGPT advice academics can use now. Inside Higher Ed. 

Frank, Ilene.  Ask ChatGPT for assignment suggestions.  Example: Suggest some alternative assessments for freshmen taking a psychology course.  

Herft, A. @herfteducator.[Andrew Herft]  A teacher's prompt guide to ChatGPT: aligned with "what works best." 

Suggestions for teaching with ChatGPT aligned with CESE NSW's [Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation. New South Wales] "What Works Best" 

Mills, Anna.  AI Text Generators: Sources to Stimulate Discussion among Teachers.  

Ofgang, E. (2022, December).  What is ChatGPT and how can you teach with it?  Tips & tricks.  TechLearning. 

Registre, J.(2022, December 31). AI just KILLED traditional language learning (ChatGPT)  YouTube 

Schroeder, Ray.  AI in higher education metasite.  Includes definitions of terms related to generative AI, some apps to try.   

Trust, Torrey.  ChatGPT & Education 

A Google doc that Includes what ChatGPT can do along with caveats and a list with links to additional resources. Examples of resources: A Wakelet on Artificial Intelligence in Education (Kira Brennan); ChatGPT through an education lens

Williams, Damien P. (2022, December 5).   "Generate a GPTChat output on [ topic(s)], then expand on and correct the output with specific references and citations from class readings and lectures.  Turn in the prompt, the original, and your corrections as your full submission."