The Center for Teaching and Learning invites you to join us for a series of discussions and events this fall about AI and ChatGPT in educational contexts. These discussions, occurring once each month via Zoom, will be guided by a central topic and will create a space for discussion among faculty about how we can adapt our teaching to a quickly changing landscape in the nature of work and learning. Our first event, Intro to ChatGPT and How to Talk with Students on Day One, will be on Tuesday, August 22 from 1:00-2:30 PM (EST) via Zoom. Please see below for more details and a link to register for events. Please also visit CTL’s web-hosted whitepaper resource, “ChatGPT & Its Impact On Teaching In Spring 2023.”
Since launched in late 2022, the uncannily accurate AI text generator ChatGPT has prompted questions about the potential impacts of AI-generated content on learning and academic work. In this conversation series, we’ll discuss AI in multiple teaching contexts, including:
- How we talk to students about AI
- Academic integrity and AI
- AI-creation processes, affordances, and limitations
- AI-themed assignments and discussions
- AI for academic research
- Our fears and fantasies around AI
- AI and academic labor
CTL Conversations offer faculty a time to come together and informally discuss topics related to their teaching. You are welcome to drop in for all or part of the virtual session.
Please check this space frequently for updated event information.
Intro to ChatGPT and How to Talk with Students on Day One
Tuesday, August 22nd, 1:00-2:30 PM (EST)
During this introductory conversation, we’ll explore ChatGPT and other AI platforms, including how they work and what they can (and can’t) do, and we’ll talk about ways to frame conversations with students about AI in your classes on day one.
This event is now over. Thanks to everyone who participated.
Academic Integrity and Information Literacy after AI
Wednesday, September 20th, 1:00-2:30 PM (EST)
When we think about AI in an academic environment, our first instinct may be to consider “cheating”. But AI is only a tool that a student may use to complete an assignment. More broadly, AI is a literacy problem, both for students and teachers. In this workshop we focus on AI as an issue of teaching critical information literacy through understanding the limits and affordances of AI and how it can both help and hurt the learning process.
This event is now over. Thanks to everyone who participated.
Teaching with and about AI
Tuesday, October 24th, 11:00-12:30 PM (EST)
In this conversation, we’ll talk about taking on AI as fruitful subject matter for classroom discussions and assignments—and think together about developing activities that foster critical approaches to AI content creation. What can we learn with our students—in thinking about how AI fundamentally works as a probability-driven platform, or in comparing its methods to human compositions, or in locating the un-human within it?
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Luddites Unite! How to avoid AI altogether
Friday, November 3rd, 2:00-3:30 PM (EST)
In this conversation, we will think about and discuss how to minimize AI use in our classrooms. What kinds of class activities, assignments, and assessments can we use where students will be less likely to turn to AI. Can we avoid AI altogether?
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Academic Labor in the Age of AI
Wednesday, December 13th, 3:30-5:00 PM (EST)
In this conversation, we will think about and discuss how the work we do as academics will change with AI. What are our fears and fantasies about how academic work of teaching and research will be impacted by the proliferation of AI?
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.