AI Uses in the Classroom
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AI can enhance learning experiences, provide personalized feedback, and streamline repetitive tasks, freeing up time for students to focus on the content and mastering your learning objectives. Purposefully integrating AI into your class help also help students to prepare for their futures. This subpage offers a variety of prompts design to inspire creative ways to incorporate AI into your courses. You’ll find examples of how AI can be utilized in a variety of ways.
If you'd like to consult about the possibilities of AI in your course, feel free to email ctl@kent.edu. You may also want to come to a workshop on AI policy - check out our AI workshops here.
General Implementation Strategies
Clarify AI Use Expectations
- Define how it can be used
- Rationale for why/when
- May include limitations/challenges related to capabilities
Define Goal for AI Use
- Brainstorming
- Peer reviewer
- Tutor
- A mentee
Design for Responsible Use / Promote Critical Thinking
- Consider providing and going through an ethical AI Use checklist or agreement with students (templates COMING SOON)
- Discuss the differences about different tools (Grammarly vs. ChatGPT)
- I do, we do, you do activity (document COMING SOON)
- Require a reflection or summary
- COMING SOON - examples of these prompts/assignments
Below, you will find helpful information on language generation AI tools. To learn more about other AI tools, check out these links:
Information Extractions & Quantitative Analysis
Artificial intelligence generative language tools, also referred to as Generative AI, are systems that can generate text in response to prompts. These large language models are “trained” on a vast array of text to understand typical patterns in human speech and writing. The tools then generate their own texts by predicting the word that is most likely to come next in a sequence. For example, if some said, “not all heroes wear...” you may assume that the next word will be “capes.” By using this predictive technique, and after being fed a huge amount of data, these language generation tools are able to produce texts that mimic natural human speech patterns.
Although language generators have been around for a while in the form of chatbots and spellcheck, the 2022 release of ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, has rapidly advanced the capabilities of this technology. ChatGPT, as well as similar tools such as Bard by Google, utilize an adaptive and conversational approach to generate responses. This allows the technology to respond to follow-up questions, edits, and revisions. These tools are now widely and freely available to all.
Summary of Language Generation Tools
Language Generation Tools and Students
This sections provides additional information about how to communicate with your students about the responsible use of AI and opportunities for incorporating AI into their coursework.
Language Generation Tools and Instructors
AI isn't just for students! Check out a few quick tips on how you can make your own work easier through the power of AI.