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AI for Learning, Teaching & Research

with Prof. Johannes Cronjé

 12:30–14:30 daily for three consecutive days. Join this hands-on, three-part “long-lunch” workshop and learn to work with AI — not just use it. 

Ideal for educators, researchers, and senior students, this course blends thoughtful reflection with practical experimentation, and will assist you to refine and achieve your own goals with the help of AI.

You’ll:

• Explore the ethical use of AI through Posthumanism & Rhizome Theory

• Set personal goals using a GROW coaching session (with ChatGPT!)

• Implement those goals during the three-day session

• Test tools for writing, research, teaching, and assessment

• Share discoveries with peers in a live, collaborative format

Bring your own project, your questions, and your lunch.

Why You Should Attend:

• Turn your lunch break into a learning break — minimal disruption, maximum output

• Discover practical AI tools to support teaching, feedback, research writing, and assessment

• Learn from educators who’ve integrated AI ethically and effectively in academic contexts

• Build skills you can apply immediately — no fluff, no jargon

Below are some resources you might find useful, regardless of whether you attend or not!

The resources below have been identified and developed in the course of previous iterations of this workshop

• How to develop research questions with the ABC Instant Research Question Generator

1. Other training opportunities and material:

   1. UCT Course: Designing with AI | Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching R5 500

   2. Free UCT resources:  https://cilt.uct.ac.za/teaching-resources/artificial-intelligence-teaching-learning 

   3. Free (some levels) – very educative Being Human With AI - AI Literacy & Ethics for Kids - Being Human With AI

   4. Digital Education Council (DEC) have two AI courses: see attached. These courses are free for all students and staff if the university is a Titanium member of DEC – USD15 800 per annum.

2. New book launched on AI by a SA author, Rachel Adams The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequality : Adams, Rachel: Amazon.co.uk: Books. She is also the founder of the Global Center on AI Governance. Global Center on AI Governance

3. Other exciting websites

   1. Explainable Artificial Intelligence(XAI) | GeeksforGeeks

   2. Why Using ChatGPT Makes You Look Lazy - by Carlo Iacono

   3. AIPRM’s Ultimate Generative AI Glossary

Feedback

Research with AI: A new way of thinking

Ethics

• Consequential

• Deontological

CPUT Guidelines

Theories

• Posthumansim

• Rhizome theory

• Activity theory

• Actor-network theory

AI for brainstorming and coaching

• Research as a fairy tale

• Finding your purpose with GROW

AI for literature surveys

The PRISMA STATEMENT of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. 

Unpaywall

Discover

Paper Digest

Conncected papers

Inciteful

Relate

Research rabbit; How do use Research Rabbit

Inciteful

Scispace 

Consensus

Compare

• Noha Omer's table

• How to generate a literature review out of a table

Lateral

Elicit

Scite

Analyze

ChatPDF

Voyant

Paper using Voyant:  Cronjé, J. C., and van Zyl, I., (2022). WhatsApp as a tool for Building a Learning Community. The Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 20(3), pp. 296-312, https://doi.org/10.34190/ejel.20.3.2286

AI Powered spreadsheet Brick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp5mPK8Jc3U

Manage and write up

Goblin tools

Avid Note

Present

https://www.piclumen.com/

https://www.craiyon.com/

https://openai.com/

Gamma

Midjourney

Dall-e

Leonardo

Explore Padlet

Padlet for Idioms

Accounting

https://dext.com/us Dext Prepare Dext Commerce Dext Precision

https://www.datasnipper.com/

https://www.appzen.com/ See how

https://www.mindbridge.ai/ Demo

https://www.autoentry.com/ How AutoEntry works

https://www.botkeeper.com/ Botkeeper demo

https://www.smacc.io/ Overview