Did you know that there are many AI tools available to save your time in administrative tasks and help you plan your lessons? These tasks include course development, lesson planning, assessments, and rubrics. The time saved can help you focus on other aspects of teaching, such as delivering lessons in an engaging and meaningful way, interacting with your students.
Here is a sample of AI tools available for educators.
Content Creation and Management:
This AI tool can generating multiple-choice questions, essay rubrics, syllabi, and teaching notes/slides.
Magic School This AI tool includes several other AI-powered tools, such as a YouTube video question generator, YouTube video summarizer, syllabus generator, rubric generator, and lesson plan generator. Content Analysis and Summarization: SciSpace is the easiest way to find, understand, and Instructional Feedback and Engagement: TeachFX - With this AI tool, you can Presentation Creation: SlidesAI - This tool allows you to easily create a presentation in seconds by either pasting your text or Yippity - Yippity - This AI tool generates text into multiple choice, true/false or fill-in-the-blank questions.
One common method to identify the use of artificial intelligence in your students' work is by using AI detection software. Here are a couple you could try:
ZeroGPT
Content at Scale
1. Always check the privacy policy before use.
2. Avoid providing sensitive information. Avoid sharing any personal, private, or sensitive information. In 2023, ChatGPT experienced a bug where other people's chat history was appearing in users' chat history. Additionally, staff manually review chats to ensure that there is no inappropriate behavior.
3. Adjusting the privacy settings. Instructions on how to adjust privacy settings for each service provider.
Spell- and grammar-check:
Grammarly
WordviceAI
Online bilingual dictionaries
Text to text translation
Google Translate
Transcription
Otter.ai
Speechnotes
Text to speech
TTSReader
1. Understanding the Limits and Uses of AI
It is important to have a clear understanding of the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in assignments and to be aware of its limitations. To assist you with this, here are some sample syllabi that other faculty members have used. Syllabi Policies for AI Generative Tools
2. Co-Creating Assignment Criteria with AI Integration
One way to incorporate AI technologies into your assignments is to establish criteria with input from your students. This will help them understand how artificial intelligence (AI) will be used in their work.
3. Feedback Cycles Involving Peer, Self, and Teacher Review
Another approach is to use a 360-degree feedback cycle. This involves obtaining feedback from various parties, including peers, the instructor, and the students themselves. Assign a task that involves feedback, such as fact-checking or analyzing argument structure, to a group.
4. Supplementing Essays with Alternative Forms of Evidence
You can also complement traditional essay assignments with other forms of evidence. Consider alternative assessment methods, such as presentations or videos, that enable students to demonstrate their learning.
5. Utilizing Traditional and Authentic Assessments
Finally, try to utilize both traditional and authentic assessments as an opportunity to enhance students' application of knowledge across various contexts.
Source:
How can teachers integrate AI within schools? Five steps to follow by Dr. Louis Volante, Dr. Chris DeLuca, and Dr. Don A. Klinger EdCan Network, Brock University, Queen’s University, and University of Waikato
Other Resources:
Turnitin - Guide for approaching AI-generated text in your classroom
To get the most out of generative AI, such as ChatGPT, it is important to craft an effective prompt or a set of instructions. Here are some tips:
1. Please provide commands to the bot. Consider using action verbs such as analyze, compose, critique, define, design, draft, edit, etc.
2. A role should be assigned to the bot. It's a great way to generate the response that you want.
3. Establish limits. Setting limits is also a way to manage the type of response.
4. Background information is required. Providing background information will most likely be helpful.
5. Output Expectations. Please help guide your results by specifying your requirements such as word count or format style.
Funded by Erasmus and the European Union. This learning module is aimed at teaching vocational educators. You will learn about the skills needed in the future and the potential impact of AI on the world of education and training. The course is free and consists of 69 lessons and five quizzes.
Introduction to AI for Teachers and Students
This is a 5-part video series aimed at teachers and students. The videos cover Large Language Models (LLM) and prompting. It is hosted by Ethan Mollick and Lilach Mollick, professors at Wharton College, University of Pennsylvania.
AI in Higher Education Resource Hub
This resource hub includes articles and webinars covering a variety of topics related to AI in education. Categorized by topics such as the latest developments, background on AI, experience, creation, support, assessment, grading, examinations, policy concerns, and future reflections.
Microsoft Learn Educator Center
Microsoft offers resources and courses on how to use artificial intelligence (AI) for educational purposes.
100+ Creative Ways to Use AI in Education
Editors: Chrissi Nerantz, University of Leeds; Antonio M. Arboleda, University of Leeds; Marianna Karatsiori, University of Macedonia and Sandra Abegglen, University of Calgary
Higher Ed discussions of AI writing
According to their Facebook page, it is a group for educators in higher education to discuss ideas related to the use of AI writing programs in writing courses. The group welcomes discussions about AI use in the classroom, structuring assignments to enhance writing and critical thinking skills, classroom and institutional policies regarding AI use, and other related topics. We hope people will feel comfortable asking questions and sharing articles, assignments, and policies related to how AI is impacting our teaching.
This group was started by Daniel Stanford. He is an experienced educator with over 20 years of experience. The goal of this group is to share resources. There are over 1600 members across continents.
Open Education Global provides a discussion board where educators can connect with others to promote open educational resources. While the topics vary, one of them is artificial intelligence.
AI-Mediated Communication - Interpersonal communication in which an intelligent agent operates on behalf of a communicator by modifying, augmenting, or generating messages to achieve communication goals.
Augmented Reality (AR) – An interactive experience where real-world environments and objects are enhanced by computer-generated 3D models and animated sequences, displayed as if they exist in the real world. AR environments can utilize AI techniques.
Confabulate – When an AI system generates a plausible but incorrect or fabricated response or scenario.
Digital literacy refers to the “ability to understand and use information from a variety of digital sources.”
Explainable AI (XAI) refers to artificial intelligence systems that are designed to make their operations and decision-making processes understandable to humans.
False-positives - A false positive refers to incorrectly identifying fully human-written text as AI-generated.
Prompt-engineering – Involves processes and techniques for composing input to generate GenAI output that more closely resembles the user’s desired intent.
Stochastic parrots – A metaphor introduced by Emily Bender to describe the theory that large language models, while capable of generating plausible language, do not understand the meaning of the language they process.