What is AI/ChatGPT?
- Georgetown University: Chat GPT and Artificial Intelligence ToolsAs new tech such as ChatGPT emerges that can create and refine content (written text, code, problems), it is important to both familiarize yourself with the tools and consider potential teaching strategies using these tools. Competitors like Jenni and Google's Bard are already on the market and improving on what's been available in the recent past; for example, Jenni can provide citations, albeit still imperfectly. This site offers some ways to approach the use of AI as well as an ongoing collection of articles and resources including a summary and video of a recent forum hosted by CNDLS and the Main Campus Executive Faculty (MCEF), where faculty and student representatives discussed Chat GPT.
Talking to Students
- ChatGPT Just Got Better. What Does That Mean for Our Writing Assignments?An educator who tested the new GPT-4 before its release offers advice for faculty members on how to respond.
- Assign writing that is as interesting and meaningful to students as possible.
- Communicate what makes the process of writing valuable.
- Support the writing process.
- Focus on building relationships with students as a way to help them to stay engaged.
Classroom Advantages & Integration
- Faculty Focus: Embrace the Bot: Designing Writing Assignments in the Face of AIHow can we best teach our students? Below are three methods of designing writing assignments in the face of an AI incursion
- Outsmart ChatGPT: 8 Tips for Creating Assignments It Can’t DoWe asked educators and experts on all sides of the broader debates about ChatGPT to give us some strategies for AI-proofing assignments.
- Practical Responses to ChatGPT and Other Generative AIIn education, a number of quick solutions has been developed, such as AI-detecting functionalities and GPT teach-outs. But as we get better at damage-controlling the negative implications of generative AI’s humanlike outputs, we also face new questions: how can we incorporate generative AI into the classroom flow and turn it into a learning tool? how can we teach students to interact with AI safely and usefully? how will the advance of generative AI shape our students’ future industries, and how should teachers respond to that?
- Washington University in St. Louis: Incorporating ChatGPT into your AssignmentsAre faculty and students adversaries or partners in the learning process? Help prepare students to engage with this tool in an informed, balanced, and ethical way.
Detecting AI Generated Assignments
Will faculty members be able to use software to identify auto-generated text from human writing?
Thus far, not reliably. Existing detectors such as OpenAI’s classifier and GPTZero have been shown to identify human-written text as “likely AI” a significant portion of the time.
False positives can lead to false accusations.
What other steps can be taken?
- Use Google Scholar to verify citations: At this time, many AIs are still creating fake citations. Double-checking citations from a paper by pasting the whole citation (or at least the article title) Google Scholar will verify if the citation is an actual resource, the majority of the time.
- Require students to submit the PDF of articles cited in their papers
- Create an assignment around an issue that is specific to the local community
- Direct students to write about very recent news events
- Have students show or explain their work
- Ask students to give an oral presentation, along with the written work
- Handwritten essays (owch!)
- Put project-based learning to work