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Sample Syllabus Language

Kenyon faculty have volunteered language they use about AI in their syllabi and assignments. This document is only available to people logged in to their Kenyon accounts.

Ongoing Courses and Experiments

The Office of Digital Learning & Inquiry at Middlebury College has an open online "Digital Detox" experience called Demystifying AI, which provides a series of activities and reflection prompts for exploring various generative AI tools.

Lew Ludwig (co-director of the Denison University Center for Teaching and Learning) will be spending one day per week of his four-day-a-week essentials of calculus class developing an AI literacy overlay. Together, his students and he will actively explore generative AI, its uses, and implications. He will chronicle the journey in a column for the Mathematical Association of America: There and Back Again: A Mathematician's Tale of AI Exploration, which all are invited to join.

 Collections of Resources

Related Articles

  • ChatGPT Can’t Teach Writing (John Warner, Inside Higher Ed, January 22, 2024): Automated syntax generation is not teaching.
  • A Year Later, Did Our ChatGPT Advice Get It Right? (Lauren Coffey, Inside Higher Ed, January 11, 2024): Exactly a year ago, we shared the advice of 11 academics on the then-new ChatGPT. We followed up to see what has changed and what to expect in 2024.
  • How Will AI Disrupt Higher Education in 2024? (Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed, January 5, 2024): Last year was when generative AI infused higher education. What can we expect in this new year?
  • Why You Shouldn’t Use ChatGPT (Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin, Inside Higher Ed, December 12, 2023): AI promises efficiency gains, but they come at the cost of alienation.
  • ChatGPT Has Changed Teaching. Our Readers Tell Us How (Beth McMurtrie and Beckie Supiano, Chronicle of Higher Education, December 11, 2023): Responses to generative AI in the classroom are, in short, all over the map.
  • High School Students’ Use and Impressions of AI Tools (Jeff Schiel, Becky L. Bobek, and Joyce Z. Schnieders, ACT Research, December 2023): Coming your way: Almost half of the participating high school students reported that they had used AI tools. See, as well, Cheating Fears Over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests (Natasha Singer, New York Times, December 13, 2023): AI tools like ChatGPT did not boost the frequency of cheating in high schools, Stanford researchers say.
  • Creative and Critical Engagement with AI in Education (AI Pedagogy Project, Harvard): A collection of assignments and materials inspired by the humanities, for educators curious about how AI affects their students and their syllabi. Includes an interactive AI guide focused on the essentials, written to be accessible to a newcomer, and designed to help faculty feel more confident with engaging conversations about AI in the classroom.
  • AI Won’t Replace Writing Instruction (Mandy Olejnik, Inside Higher Ed, December 8, 2023): And here’s why.
  • Embracing Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom (Meredith Butulis, Faculty Focus, December 6, 2023): The author discusses some pro’s and con’s of various AI uses in the classroom, including issues of time saving, paper editing, improving communications, etc.
  • Indecision About AI in Classes Is So Last Week (Professors and Administrators from Five Major Public Universities, Inside Higher Ed, December 1, 2023): The authors provide advice on how to get moving ahead with AI in the classroom right now.
  • Practical AI Strategies for the Classroom (Beckie Supiano, Chronicle of Higher Education, November 30, 2023): Some thoughts generated from a conference sponsored by the Online Learning Consortium of ways to find practical applications of generative AI for teaching.
  • Is ChatGPT the new CliffsNotes? (Lisa McNeal, Faculty Focus, November 29, 2023): Like CliffsNotes, ChatGPT and other generative AI tools can be used by anyone looking for a quick summary or to synthesize information. There are many, many potential uses for this language-based technology; here she shares some tips that have helped her grapple with this new technology.  
  • Using AI Tools to Prepare Slide Decks (Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed, November 21, 2023): Podcast hosted by Rodney B. Murray which discusses his experience using AI-powered tools to generate slide decks for a new course he was teaching, including the pros and cons of using MagicSlides and SlidesGPT. (22 minute podcast).
  • ChatGPT and Chill: AI Literacy and Next-Generation Student Empowerment (Jennifer Hayward and Caitlyn Deeter, The College of Wooster and CTL, November 10, 2023): A webinar focused on a seven-week AI literacy course piloted earlier this semester. Materials include a recording of the presentation, the presenters’ slide deck, and a resource list.
  • Why You Should Rethink Your Resistance to ChatGPT (Flower Darby, Chronicle of Higher Education, November 13, 2023): How to teach with AI tools in ways that meet faculty concerns about ethics and equity.
  • Guide, Don’t Hide: Maximizing Course Assignments with ChatGPT Integration (Lauren E. Burrow, Faculty Focus, November 13, 2023): The author doesn’t weigh in on ongoing ethical debates about AI use, nor offers a comprehensive how-to guide, but rather shares one professor’s initial use of the AI tool and how it successfully accomplished the learning objectives and expectations for one course assignment.
  • Generative AI: Your Assistant as an Administrator or Faculty Member (Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed, November 8, 2023): Generative AI is quickly becoming a daily fixture in the lives of administrators and faculty. It enhances productivity, creativity and perspectives.
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