40 AI tools for the classroom
Artificial intelligence is growing by leaps and bounds. It's no longer science fiction anymore! Lots of AI tools can serve as our own personal
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8 Tips on Why Educators Should Avoid Using AI Apps to Help with Assessment of Student Learning
Intellectual Property A student’s work is their intellectual property. Unless you have permission to use it outside of class, then avoid doing so.
Privacy A student’s personal data, including their name, ID number and other details should never be uploaded to an external app without consent.
Data security Content uploaded to an AI tool may be added to its database and used to train the tool.
Bias AI apps are known to be biased. Feedback generated by an AI app can be biased, unfair, and even racist. To learn more check out this article published in Nature.
Lack of context An AI app does not know your student like you do. It can provide generic feedback but may not help to scaffold a student’s learning.
Impersonal AI apps can provide generic feedback, but as an educator, you can personalize feedback to help the student grow.
Academic Integrity Educators model ethical behaviour, this includes transparent and fair assessment. If you are using tech tools to assess student learning, it is important to be transparent about it. In this post, I write more about how and why deceptive and covert assessment tactics are unacceptable.
Your Employee Responsibilities If your job description includes assessing student work , you may be violating your employment contract if you offload assessment to an AI app
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AI Goes to College: In the Classroom and Beyond
Much of the buzz around artificial intelligence centers on its potential to transform the college of tomorrow, but there are many schools making meaningful change with this technology today. On this episode, we go deep on the applications of AI from recruitment to instruction to supporting post-grad success. We sit down Lev Gonick, Chief Information Officer at Arizona State University, and Ashley Budd, Senior Marketing Director at Cornell University, to dig into the ways their colleges are leveraging the power of AI. This episode is made with support from CollegeVine.
Writing for Busy Readers
Bite-Size AI Content for Faculty and Staff
Another two 5-tips videos for faculty and my latest use case: creating FAQs!
Governor's Task Force on Workforce and Artificial Intelligence Advisory Action Plan July 2024
To better understand the implications of emerging AI technologies and begin the policy development process, the task force began its work by organizing into three subcommittees: Industries, Occupations, and Skills: This subcommittee commenced its work in collaboration with DWD’s labor market economists to identify the industries, occupations, and functional skillsets most likely to benefit or experience disruption from AI. Based on this understanding, and a review of existing training and other programs, the group focused its efforts on identifying opportunities to advance workers, employers, job seekers, and a thriving Wisconsin economy. Both employee and employer needs were considered. Equity and Economic Opportunity: The rise of generative AI offers the potential to advance equity and economic opportunity. This committee was tasked with exploring existing programs designed to connect underutilized talent pools with in-demand skills, identify gaps, and propose solutions that lead to career advancement in these new fields. The subcommittee focused its work on advancing equity and economic opportunity as part of the AI transformation. Workforce Development and Educational Solutions: Based on the work of the previous two groups as well as research by DWD labor market economists and others, this subcommittee is identifying policy, educational, and budget solutions to prepare Wisconsin’s workforce, drive economic development, and sustain thriving communities.
Three Quick Examples of Teaching with and about Generative AI – Agile Learning
hbsp.harvard.edu-How I Used Gen AI to Create a Highly Engaging Assignment.pdf
AI vs. human engineers: Benchmarking coding skills head-to-head
The AI-Assisted Coding Framework (AIACF) further supports this transition by enabling companies to evaluate how well candidates can collaborate with AI, ensuring that the engineers hired are not just technically skilled but also adept at leveraging AI as a co-pilot. Together, these tools offer a comprehensive approach to building the future of software engineering—where human ingenuity and AI capabilities combine to drive innovation.
Why Yes, I Do Use AI to Generate Quality Feedback on Student Work
Stressing Pedagogical Principles Over AI Promises, with John Warner – Teaching in Higher Ed
John Warner explores stressing pedagogical principles over AI promises on episode 536 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
How Will AI Transform the Teaching Profession? Four Trends to Consider - John Spencer
Educators Will Need to Be Curators Educators Will Need to Tap Into Empathy and Relational Knowledge Educators Will Need to Contextualize the Learning Educators Will Need to Be Adaptable
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Use this table as a reference for evaluating and considering changes to aligned course activities (or, where possible, learning outcomes) that emphasize distinctive human skills and/or integrate generative AI (GenAI) tools as a supplement to the learning process.
Searching for Fit: The Impacts of AI in Higher Ed
On this episode, Jeff and Michael tackle the question everyone is asking: how will AI transform higher ed? For help in finding the answer, they turn to bestselling author and professor of computer science at Georgetown University, Cal Newport. They discuss AI’s academic and operational implications, its ethical and practical considerations, and the stages and timeline over which we can expect this technological transformation to unfold. This episode is made with support from CollegeVine.
Prompt crafting
Prompt Crafting From Angela Stockman Alt text: Prompt crafting plays a pivotal role in harnessing the potential of AI, especially in language models. A well- constructed prompt acts as a precise instruction set, guiding AI systems to produce relevant, accurate, and insightful outputs. Craftin...
Prompt Engineering Guide | Prompt Engineering Guide
A Comprehensive Overview of Prompt Engineering
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Student Guide to AI Literacy | MLA Style Center
This guide was written by participants of the Critical AI Literacy for Reading, Writing, and Languages Workshop, an initiative of the MLA-CCCC Task Force on Writing and AI. While GenAI (generative artificial intelligence) tools appear to work instantaneously, almost like magic, they rely on immense amounts of data and computing functions. GenAI is the product […]
The Most Popular AI Tools for Instructional Design (September, 2024)
The tools we use most, and how we use them
Ethical Reasons to Avoid Using AI Apps for Student Assessment
Customized apps to assess student work exist, but many educators do not have access to them. Using ChatGPT and other AI apps to assess student learning, might not be a good idea. Here’s why.
(26) Seven Steps to More Gain Less Pain with AI in Higher Education | LinkedIn
Step 1 and 2: Reflect on Module Learning Outcomes and Assessment Types
Seven Questions to Ask Before Having Students Use AI Tools - John Spencer
Questions: What are the learning tasks? How will we ensure that the AI supports rather than replaces the thinking process? How does this AI tool align with what we know about how the brain works? How is machine learning changing the learning domain? What are the ethical implications I should consider? What is developmentally appropriate? Are my students ready to use AI responsibly?
AI Chatbots Reflect Cultural Biases. Can They Become Tools to Alleviate Them? - EdSurge News
Can ChatGPT and other chatbots be trained to eliminate the subtle biases around race, class and gender baked into their training data?
Generative AI Chatbot Worked Examples for Learning – Anne Fensie
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Post-apocalyptic education
What comes after the Homework Apocalypse
What AI Can Do Today
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AI Images are Already More Realistic Than You Think
Earlier this week I posted my first ever web game: Real or Fake? It’s a game which, as you can guess from the title, asks you to spot the fake from 10 pairs of images. This article contains s…
AI IMPACT RISK: an acronym to remember generative AI downsides
Along with the benefits of generative AI come a varied array of harms—enough that it can be hard to remember all of them. The IMPACT RISK acronym offers a mn...
Ten Use Cases for Generative AI in College Writing
This video is designed to accompany a tutorial on applying a syllabus policy to potential uses of generative AI in a college writing course. I will not tell ...