AI for Education Librarians: A Virtual Forum

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

10:00 am-11:00 am Pacific / 1:00 pm-2:00 pm Eastern

In this virtual forum, hosted by the ACRL Education and Behavioral Sciences Section's Instruction for Educators Committee, attendees will learn how generative AI tools are being used in schools of education and attendees will discuss with each other about AI and academic libraries. Two education faculty members will share how they have used generative AI tools to create lesson plans and to integrate AI into teacher education programs. Attendees will have an opportunity to discuss how these tools are being used or could be used in education libraries to support education faculty and students. Bring your questions, ideas, and concerns to this virtual forum! All are welcome to attend! 

[Please note this description was not generated by generative AI tools.] 

The session will be held from 10-11:00 am Pacific, 11 am-12:00 pm Mountain, 12-1:00 pm Central, 1-2:00 pm Eastern Standard Times. 

Registration will be capped at 300 participants. 

See below for presentation recording, materials, and resources.

Christopher Richmann, Ph.D.

Christopher Richmann, Ph.D., is Assistant Director for Teaching and Learning for the Academy for Teaching and Learning and affiliate faculty in the Department of Religion. His research focuses on the pentecostal-charismatic tradition and Lutheran popular theology. In the areas of teaching and learning, Dr. Richmann has special interests in academic authority, teaching as vocation, and how theories of human development influence teaching. He hosts the podcast "Professors talk Pedagogy" and has published research in International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Teaching in Higher Education, The Scholarly Teacher, and The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching, and along with Lenore Wright, Dr. Richmann edited Called to Teach: Excellence, Commitment, and Community in Christian Higher Education (Pickwick).

 

Title of Talk: AI as Teaching Assistant

Jennifer Van Allen, Ed.D.


Jennifer Van Allen, Ed.D., is an Associate Professor of Literacy Education at Lehman College in the City University of New York. Her research focuses on effective and equitable practices for integrating technology into literacy teaching and learning with a special interest in online research and comprehension skills and open education practices. Dr. Van Allen’s work has been published in journals including, Reading Psychology, Journal for Literacy and Technology, Journal for Multicultural Education, and Open Praxis.  She has over 20 years of experience in education ranging from elementary school to higher education as a teacher, literacy coach, and now professor. 

 

Title of Talk: Integrating AI into Teacher Prep Programs


EBSS Instruction for Educators Committee 

The EBSS IFE Committee is charged with providing “a forum for librarians interested in bibliographic instruction in education; identifying the issues and problems encountered by librarians serving schools, colleges, and departments of education in colleges and universities; and developing approaches and solutions to those problems.” The current membership of the committee engages with with this mission through hosting events such as the virtual forum on AI and also through the development of the Companion Document to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education: Instruction for Educators which was approved for publication by ACRL Board of Directors in June 2023. 

View the committee roster or volunteer.

Meet the Moderator: Amy James

Amy James co-chairs the Instruction for Educators Committee. Amy is the Online Librarian for Education & Information Literacy at Baylor University.

Discussion Session Agenda

AI and Teacher Education Resources

AI in the Classroom: What is Cheating? What is OK? (2023). Ditch that Textbook. https://ditchthattextbook.com/ai-cheating/

Google AI. (2023). Introduction to prompt design. https://developers.generativeai.google/guide/prompt_best_practices

An introductory resource on how to shape prompts to accomplish your goals with a large language model.

Google AI. (2023). Makersuite quickstart. https://developers.generativeai.google/tutorials/makersuite_quickstart

Provides instructions on how to begin prototyping with Google's large language models right from the browser. A potential tool for educators who incorporate computational thinking in the classroom.

US Office of Educational Technology. (2023). Report on AI and the Future of Teaching and Learning. https://tech.ed.gov/ai/

Weil, E. (2023). You are not a parrot: And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this. New York, 56(5), 32–75. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

Xiao, Y. (2023). AI based literature review tools. [Research Guide]. https://tamu.libguides.com/c.php?g=1289555&p=9470549

Dr. Van Allen's Links
7 Strategies to Prepare Educators to Teach With AI: https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/7-strategies-to-prepare-educators-to-teach-with-ai/2023/06

EdSurge - AI is for Everyone, Everywhere: https://www.edsurge.com/research/guides/ai-is-for-everyone-everywhere#Thinking-About-AI

Five Big Ideas in Artificial Intelligence: https://ai4k12.org/resources/big-ideas-poster/

AI Exploration for Educators: https://www.iste.org/areas-of-focus/AI-in-education

Ditch that Textbook Artificial Intelligence: https://ditchthattextbook.com/category/artificial-intelligence/

OpenAI Teaching with AI Guide: https://openai.com/blog/teaching-with-ai

AI Dictionary for Educators: https://blog.profjim.com/the-ai-dictionary-for-beginners-and-non-technical-people-and-educators/

Teaching Alliteration with AI: https://www.teachwithict.com/gruffalo.html?fbclid=IwAR23ALJFc9zeCrAAKX2_9hT1SYhI0E_LbC56WMW5k0orEvv9wymtbb09FvE

AI in the Classroom: 10+ tools for teachers: https://ditchthattextbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/AI-in-the-Classroom_-10-Tools-for-Teachers.pdf

Office of Educational Technology Report - Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning: https://tech.ed.gov/ai-future-of-teaching-and-learning/

Open Learning Curriculum: https://ai-4-all.org/resources/

Dr. Richmann's Links

Examples of AI generated multiple choice questions in Biology

Much of my philosophy on generative AI is informed by Reid Hoffman, Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI; https://www.impromptubook.com/

Educause report on how instructors are using/plan to use AI (with a nice graphic for the four big categories for using AI): https://er.educause.edu/articles/2023/4/educause-quickpoll-results-adopting-and-adapting-to-generative-ai-in-higher-ed-tech