OVERVIEW

This semester-long community of practice is for teachers whose pedagogies are seeking to respond to the increasing use of artificial intelligence like OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 and other generative technologies.

SUMMARY

Meetings

11AM-12:15PM Thursdays 9/12, 9/26, 10/10, 10/24, 11/7, 11/21

Meetings held in the CTL plus field trips across campus | Snacks & beverages will be provided

Description

While we may have different thoughts and feelings about AI’s role in education, all of us are increasingly encountering the use of AI (understood broadly to account for emerging, generative, and other technologies) in our teaching. We are also obliged to share our expectations with our students regarding the use of AI for coursework. This community of practice is for educators whose pedagogies are seeking to respond to the increasing use of AI on and off campus.

Together we will explore how AI is changing teaching and learning in higher education, what we do and don’t know about how students engage with it, and how our pedagogies can respond to these changes from our different disciplinary perspectives and ethical commitments. We will also consider what it means for us to think about these issues in the context of Catholic, Jesuit educational principles and frameworks. Over six meetings, we will mix seminar-style discussions with workshop-style activities to both think about and play critically with AI technologies for text and image generation.  

Learning objectives

•     Develop understandings of AI and how it interacts with teaching and learning  
•     Grow more comfortable with using/discussing AI in our classrooms and pedagogies  
•     Produce a collaborative product with contributions from multiple disciplinary perspectives

Deliverables

One goal for the community is to collaboratively write an open-access academic journal article for publication. We will discuss what shape this publication should take together over the course of the semester with volunteers gathering to write after the CoP concludes. Other goals may also include developing sample classroom policies, sample assignments, and recommended teaching practices to be shared with the university community through the Center for Teaching and Learning.

Facilitator team

Lilly Campbell, Associate Professor (English); Maxwell Gray, Digital Scholarship Librarian (Raynor Library); Jenna Green, Teaching Assistant Professor (English); Jen Maney, Director (Center for Teaching and Learning); Melissa Shew, Associate Director of Teaching Excellence (Center for Teaching and Learning); Gabriel Velez, Associate Professor (Education); Larry Zhiming Xu, Assistant Professor (Strategic Communication)