AI for Educators
Professional Development Opportunities
- Short courses:
"An Essential Guide to AI for Educators" by AI for Education: This FREE 2-hour, hands-on course is designed to help educators get started using ChatGPT to save time, engage students, and implement AI responsibly.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Education for Teachers by Macquarie School of Education at Macquarie University and IBM Australia. A good primer on AI in Education
Generative AI: Impact, Considerations, and Ethical Issues by IBM: You will learn about the ethical concerns of generative AI, including data privacy, biases, copyright infringement, and hallucination.
- Webinars:
aiEDU hosts free webinars on the use of AI in education. Educators can sign up here for their upcoming webinars in the fall.
- Conferences:
AI for Education Summit April 27th, 2024 - Online. Free Event. Learn, Experiment, Innovate. Embark on a transformative journey into the future of educational practices through AI. Register Now
Enhancing the Educational Experience with ChatGPT & AI - UH Education Innovation & Technology Event, Feb 16, 2024. View the recordings
- AI Toolkits
AI Pedagogy Project | A new dynamic collection of assignments and materials inspired by the humanities for educators curious about how AI affects their students and their syllabi. Tailored especially for post-secondary educators in the humanities and non-technical fields.
- AI - UH Community
Join the UH ChatGPT User Group and connect with the community! To become a member, search for "AI and ChatGPT User Group" in TEAMS or request an invitation at tyacosta@uh.edu. Additionally, the AI/ChatGPT/ conversations blog allows you to share your insights on AI. If you wish to submit your work for review, please send your Word or .txt document to fdis@uh.edu.
Pedagogical Approaches to GenAI
Familiarize yourself with GenAI chatbots like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude.
Engage in discussions with students about considerations related to privacy, security, and ethical and responsible use.
Advocates believe that AI should be at the service of developing human capabilities for inclusive, just, and sustainable futures. Think of co-creating AI policies with students and revisit, reflect, and make changes as necessary.
Consider incorporating AI (such as ChatGPT and image generation tools) into your teaching.
Explore different use cases to integrate GenAI in your assessments and course activities to encourage critical thinking, creative endeavors, and extracurricular interest in relevant subjects.
Use your syllabus to explain your expectations for using GenAI in your course.
Explore resources for adapting assessments to support learning in an AI-enabled community.
Prepare Students for a Fast-Changing World: Instructors can ask students to go out into the world and observe AI use and policies in their chosen workplace and then report back to their peers and instructors.
Use AI to solve complex “big math” problems or to teach coding concepts or programming languages, and then, as a group, explore the steps the AI chooses to solve the issues.
Think-pair-ChatGPT-pair-share. After students share an idea with classmates, they also explore what ChatGPT has to say about the topic and then discuss ChatGPT’s response.
Provide basic instruction on commonly-used citation styles
AI Tools
ChatGPT For those curious to try ChatGPT, this site provides a link. ChatGPT is trained to interact conversationally. The dialogue format allows ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.
Claude This AI chatbot is designed to be more ethical and safer than other chatbots. It may be more suitable for users concerned about chatbots doing objectionable things.
Microsoft Copilot (formerly Bing Chat Enterprise): Copilot provides AI chat for the web with access to models like GPT-4 and DALL-E 3 at no additional cost.
QuillBot This tool allows you to paraphrase text, check grammar, and get explanations to learn from mistakes and improve your writing.
Grammarly is more than just a spell checker. It can also detect issues with tone and complex language structure problems, offering alternatives you can choose from.
Wordtune Spices Unlike ChatGPT, Wordtune Spices can cite its sources and utilize the most recent data from the internet.
TutorAI Type a topic in the search box, and it will create a course for you.
AI Catalog for Educators February 2024 A simplistic library of AI tools by Michael Gaskell.
Generative AI and Course Design
GenAI Chatbot Prompt Library for Educators: A variety of prompts to help you build your lessons and do administrative tasks with GenAI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity.
4 Simple Ways to Integrate AI into Your Class: Transformative ways you can incorporate AI in your classroom.
Turnitin - Academic integrity in the age of AI: Resources for educators seeking academic integrity solutions in instruction and assessment when faced with student use of artificial intelligence tools.
Copilot Lab: Ready-made prompts to try with your Copilot AI.
AI for Academic Research
Generative AI provides sophisticated tools to help educators navigate and elevate their research; it also raises concerns about AI’s rapid expansion into areas once considered exclusive to humans, like creativity and ingenuity. Examples of generative AI prompts to help you elevate your research:
Use AI for brainstorming
Prompt: “I’m thinking about [insert topic]. Can you help me find innovative papers and research from the last 10 years that have discussed [insert topic]?” or “Can you create a table of methods that have and have not been used related to [insert topic] in recent management research?”
Use AI to help gather and analyze data
Prompt: “What is the best way to collect data on [insert topic]? What is the best software to use for this? Can you help get that data? How do I build the code to get this data? What is the best way to analyze this data? If you were a skeptical reviewer, what would you also control for with this analysis?”
Use AI to help verify your findings
Prompt: “Can we reproduce these findings using a different statistical technique?” or “Can you create a step-by-step representation of the workflow I used in this study?” or “Can you help generate an appendix of the parameters, tests, and configuration settings for this analysis?”
“Can you identify moments in this text where this idea was discussed? Please put them in an easy-to-understand table,” or “Can you find text that would negate these findings? What conditions do you believe generated these counterfactual examples?”
Use AI to help predict and parse reviewer feedback
Prompt: "As a skeptical reviewer who is inclined to reject papers, what potential flaws do you see in my paper? How can I minimize those flaws?”
“Help me identify key points in this review, listing them from the easiest and quickest comments to address to the most challenging and time-consuming reviewer comments.”