Artificial Intelligence In The Classroom

"In his thought-provoking keynote at the 2024 ASU+GSV Summit, Ethan Mollick (Professor, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania) argues that the rapid advancement of AI is causing a "homework apocalypse" in education, as AI can now easily complete most assignments better than students. However, rather than viewing this as a crisis, Mollick sees it as an opportunity for educators to transform the way they teach by integrating AI tools into their classrooms. He encourages teachers to experiment with AI, build their own AI-powered educational tools, and share their findings with the wider community, ultimately democratizing access to educational technology and ensuring that AI has a positive impact on education." -ASU-GSV Keynote Description

Your Colleagues Are Working On Issues Regarding Generative AI (i.e. ChatGPT)

Here's What Some Fellow Educators Have to Say

• Why Large Language Models Like Chat GPT Treat Black and White Sounding Names Differently. Written by Monica Schreiber at the Stanford UniversityHuman-Centered Artificial Intelligence. March, 2024.

• Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem: The case for teaching coders to speak French. The Atlantic. March 19, 2024

• Adapting College Writing for the Age of Large Language Models such as ChatGPT. Written by Anna Mills and Lauren M.E. Goodlad for the Critical AI Blog at Rutgers University. Updated April 2023.

•  AI Guidance. Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University. Updated Regularly. 2024.

• Resource Guide for ChatGPT. Center for Teaching and Learning. Northern Illinois University. Updated Regularly. 2024.

• Generative AI in First-Year Writing: An early analysis of affordances, limitations, and a framework for the future: Written by Robert E. Cummings, Stephen M. Monroe & Marc Watkins. Computers and Composition. Vol. 71. March 2024.

• ChatGPT Teacher Tutorial: AI For Your ESL Class! YouTube Video, 9 min 20 sec. 2023.

• ESL Meets AI: How We Can Make Our Lives Easier with ChatGPT. YouTube Video, 6 minutes and 6 sec. 2023

• Leveraging ChatGPT: Practical Ideas for Educators. Written by Zak Cohan. The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. January, 2023.

• Chat GPT in the Classroom with Rebecca Beck February 2023. Higher Ed Tech Podcast (46 minutes and 38 seconds). February, 2023.

• Designing Assignments in the ChatGPT Era Written by Susan D'Agostino. Inside Higher Ed. January, 2023.

• From Transactional to Transformational Teaching. Written by Steven Mintz. Inside Higher Education. January 2022

Classroom Policy and Syllabus Assistance

• Guidance for Online Course Development and the use of Artificial Intelligence Tools: A Guide for Faculty. Created by Oregon State University. Updated regularly. 2024.

• A Critical Review of GenAI Policies in Higher Education Assessment: A call to reconsider the “originality” of students’ work. Written by Jaihui Luo. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Ed. February 4, 2024.

• Guidance on Maintaining Academic Integrity in an Artificial Intelligence World. CSUN Memorandum with FAQ's on academic integrity with AI in the classroom. 8/25/2023.

• Promoting Authenticity of Student Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A faculty guide. Center for Teaching and Learning Enhancement at Lamar University. 8/2023.

• Syllabi Policies For AI Generative Tools. Document Being Updated Regularly. 2024.

• Artificial Intelligence and Teaching (Briefly explains AI in the classroom and gives sample syllabi policies). Univ. Wisconsin, Milwaukee. 2024.

• Cornerstone and AI Generated Writing: Guidelines. Purdue University. 1/3/2023.

• Rules for Tools, (One page classroom policy on how to use media in classroom work). Hiedelberg University of Education. October 1st 2023.

• Foundation Model Class Policy. Prof Ryan Baker at University of Pennsylvania. 2023.

  • The above policy was shared on LinkedIn and a very interesting conversation ensued: Click Here

Detection tools are controversial and, on their own, do not stand up to academic integrity challenges. If you'd like to read more about this, Vanderbilt University turned off their TurnItIn subscription, here's the article.

With that said there are tools that are being created to help us figure out if something was created by AI Large Language Models such as ChatGPT.

Please understand that these tools are not foolproof and students can use them as easily as we can however, you may find them useful as a starting point.

GPTZero: This is a free (with paid upgrade), non-commercial, tool. Documents are scored by how much may have been written by AI. Each sentence written by AI is highlighted.

ChatGPT: You can actually use ChatGPT to check if something was generated by AI. Simply ask it "was this created by artificial intelligence?" and put in the piece of work.

AI Classifier: A resource that distinguishes between AI and human written text brought to you by the creators of ChatGPT.

Play a Game to Test Your Ability to Spot When Something is Written by AI

• Real of Fake: select a category (i.e. short stories, New York Times articles, recipes or presidential speeches) and test if you can tell if ai wrote it or a human.

• Human or Not: Chat with someone for two minutes, and try to figure out if it was a fellow human or an AI bot.