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Instructors and students alike are increasingly aware of the ways generative AI technologies are changing writing and higher education. This term, WIC invited Dr. Scott Graham (University of Texas-Austin) to discuss how instructors can navigate uses and misuses of artificial intelligence (AI) in the classroom. In \u201cAI Has Entered the Chat: Promise, Peril, and the Future of Writing in Higher Ed,\u201d Dr. Graham, who uses AI to study health and bioscience communication, reviews the many ways students and instructors alike are using generative AI technologies (including Chat-GPT) in and beyond the classroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the talk, he highlights potential benefits and drawbacks of AI use, and shares ways that instructors might employ large language models (LLMs) as an electronic pedagogical resource in the writing classroom, as well as tips for designing assessments that facilitate students\u2019 learning about the writing process. He also discusses the many limits and drawbacks of this tech, including the ways that LLMs produce false information and sources through \u201challucinations,\u201d as well as the dangerous data collection and storage methods used by major AI tech companies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can watch the recording of Dr. Graham\u2019s talk here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Following his talk on using generative AI responsibly in the classroom, Dr. Scott Graham hosted a workshop titled \u201cChatGPT in the Classroom: Practicalities & Pedagogies.\u201d In the workshop, he explained how generative AI technologies like Chat-GPT gather data and create outputs based on that data; he then led attendees through various prompt generation exercises using Chat-GPT, discussing the tool\u2019s limitations and capacities along the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the first exercise, attendees prompted Chat-GPT to summarize a book or reading they had recently assigned to students, and then shared their observations on the AI\u2019s outputs with one another. Dr. Graham then reviewed the basics of prompt engineering, the practice of developing inputs for the strongest possible outputs from generative AI tools. In the following exercise, attendees tested the limits of Chat-GPT\u2019s ability to localize its outputs by prompting the tool to craft a letter related to issues in Corvallis and the Oregon State community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Scott Graham\u2019s \u201cAI Has Entered the Chat: Promise, Peril, and the Future of Writing in Higher Ed\u201d Talk (Recording Linked) Instructors and students alike are increasingly aware of the ways generative AI technologies are changing writing and higher education. This term, WIC invited Dr. Scott Graham (University of Texas-Austin) to discuss how instructors can… Continue reading Dr. Scott Graham\u2019s workshop \u201cChatGPT in the Classroom: Practicalities & Pedagogies\u201d (No Recording Available) <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n