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Faculty and AI - Atla 2024

This guide contains resources used in our presentation at Atla 2024 in Long Beach, CA.

Assignments using AI

For the reasons discussed in this guide, students must learn to use AI ethically and responsibly. At the same time, students need to develop the skills that AI doesn't have, such as such as critical thinking, problem-solving, and effective communication.  Here are some assignment ideas that meet both learning objectives. 

  • Use a Chatbot to test your own assignments​
  • Use Chatbot output in class to talk about what is missing or in error. Show students examples of biased, inaccurate, or misleading output.​
  • Analyze ChatGPT output and supplement the text with explanations and sources​
  • Compare human/AI writing​
  •  AI-assisted writing: editing, voice, transitions, audience​
  • Role-playing​

Creating prompts

And if you decide to allow the use of AI:

  • Provide context – who ‘are’ you? Level of expertise? Type of personality?​
  • Be specific about what you want it to do, what types of answers you want​

  • Constraints – level of work; keywords to use or avoid​

  • Output format – style, length, essay, bullet list, etc.​

  • Refine output

Prompt 101

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chat GPT for Educators: Prompt 101 

Interesting Sites to Try

These sites were part of a faculty development session in the fall of 2024 led by Michael Hanegan. These sites have a free version, some with limited abilities. Please feel free to explore!

Claude - "Claude is an artificial intelligence, trained by Anthropic using Constitutional AI to be safe, accurate, and secure — the trusted assistant for you to do your best work. You can use Claude for your own personal use or create a Team account to collaborate with your teammates." (from the website)

NotebookLM - a Google-powered is an AI-powered research and writing assistant that works best with the sources you upload.

Connected Papers - "Connected Papers is a unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work." (from the website)

Litmaps - "Litmaps changes the way researchers search for papers and conduct literature reviews. Using the citation network and advanced search features, Litmaps help you find the most important papers on your topic faster." (from the website)

PerplexityAI - A "conversational search engine that uses large language models to answer queries using sources from the web and cites links within the text response." (fro Wikipedia)