Miniseries: Artificial Intelligence and the implications for Teaching and Learning

The Center for Teaching Excellence, School of Liberal Arts, and Information Technology are partnering to offer a miniseries on artificial intelligence and the implications for teaching and learning.

Episode 1: 

Session Title:  ChatGPT: What it is and why you should (and should not) be worried about how it will impact your teaching.

Facilitators:

Dr. Daniel Vollaro, Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of Digital Humanities, Georgia Gwinnett College

Jason Palmer, Instructor of English, Georgia Gwinnett College

Date:  March 22, 2023 from 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm

Location:

On-Campus: CTE Conference Room

Online: via Teams

Registration: Eventbrite

Description:

Have you heard about ChatGPT and want to know more? Are you worried about how AI chatbots may enable students to cheat on your assignments? Or are you interested in how they may facilitate both faculty and student learning, creativity, and productivity? Do you wonder how this tech will change the definition of writing, research, teaching, and learning? 

To demonstrate its capabilities, we asked the ChatGPT to write a description for a faculty workshop on ChatGPT. Here’s what it gave us: 

ChatGPT is a sophisticated language model trained by OpenAI that is capable of generating human-like responses to text-based prompts, which means that it can simulate a conversation with a person. ChatGPT uses machine learning algorithms to analyze vast amounts of text data, learn from it, and generate coherent and relevant responses to various prompts.

It is essential for faculty members to understand the capabilities of ChatGPT and its potential impact on academic integrity. Students can use ChatGPT to generate essays by analyzing the context of a prompt and producing an essay on any given topic. This feature can be tempting for students looking to complete their assignments quickly, but it also poses a risk to academic integrity if not used appropriately.

In this workshop, we will discuss the potential implications of ChatGPT on academic integrity and how we can encourage students to use it as a tool to enhance their learning experience rather than a shortcut to complete their assignments. We will also explore the various use cases of ChatGPT in higher education, such as its potential to help students with language barriers and its role in developing more personalized learning experiences.

Overall, this workshop aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of ChatGPT, its potential benefits, and the challenges it poses to the academic community. By the end of this workshop, faculty members will have a better understanding of how to use ChatGPT as a tool to enhance the learning experience of students and promote academic integrity.

This demonstration shows how this AI is both powerful and problematic. Our session will be different from the one the chatbot describes–more wide-ranging and reflective. Please join us to learn more and participate in a rich discussion on the inevitable impact of AI on higher education.

You must make a choice: #TeachWithAI or #TeachAgainstAI. You can’t ignore AI. I do both in my classes at Georgia State University Perimeter College. Some of my lessons include #AI, and some of my lessons are fairly AI-proof. In either case, you must learn about AI, play with AI, and make changes to the way in which you #teach.

View the recording of the discussion.

Episode 2:

Session Title:  Teaching with AI

Presenter:  Dr. Michelle Kassorla, Associate Professor of English, Georgia State University

Date:  March 29, 2023 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Location:

On-Campus: Cisco Auditorium

Online:  via Zoom

Registration: not required

Description:

You must make a choice: #TeachWithAI or #TeachAgainstAI. You can’t ignore AI. I do both in my classes at Georgia State University Perimeter College. Some of my lessons include #AI, and some of my lessons are fairly AI-proof. In either case, you must learn about AI, play with AI, and make changes to the way in which you #teach.

View the recording of the presentation.

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