Presentation for the AI group symposium on Thursday, April 30, 2025
By David Stoloff, Education – stoloffd@easternct.edu
also posted at https://sites.google.com/view/writingsdls/presentations/ai-group-2025-presentation
How I introduce AI in my courses -
Used in LAC 400 - Exploring tools for future learning, EDU 357 – International and Cross-Cultural Education, EDU 511 – Learning and Teaching, and EDU 555 – School and Society
Google (2024, Apr 11). Generative AI for Educators. Google [Publisher]. Retrieved from https://skillshop.exceedlms.com/student/path/1176018 (they issue a certificate of completion for your files)
OR
Common Sense Media (2025). ChatGPT Foundations for K–12 Educators. Retrieved from https://www.commonsense.org/education/training/chatgpt-k12-foundations
OR
relevant tutorials from
Microsoft (2025). Microsoft Copilot video tutorials: Get started with Microsoft Copilot. Retrieved from https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/microsoft-copilot-video-tutorials-25a1b328-79be-4e8a-af96-1f894e52bcf6
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Google (2025). In-demand AI courses for today's workforce. Retrieved from https://grow.google/ai/
Specific projects using AI
For EDU 511 - Learning and Teaching
ask Co-Pilot* or another AI tool to "define (a concept that isn't already defined on the list - replace this with the concept) for (your choice - professional education, early childhood education, elementary education, secondary education, physical education, special education, ...) and provide the source of this definition from a publication after 2018 with its full APA reference with a URL. Format the response as an EXCEL row with definition and source."
Definitions are copied into a community list of concepts using an EXCEL spreadsheet.
Educational Terms Spring 2025.xlsx
For EDU 555 - School and Society
Ask AI* to find (copy this prompt) -
according to the school documents for (fill in - school, town, state), what are the school's goals and mission? Provide an APA formatted list of references. Format the response for an excel spreadsheet row with these columns (type in your LASTNAME FIRSTNAME MMDDYYYY - no commas, but a comma after these items), the school district, the school's name, its goals, and the references fit on one excel row
EDU 357 - International and Cross-Cultural Education
Use of Google Translate in the Mongolian National University of Education and Eastern Connecticut State University Intercultural Connection among Universities Project - https://www.youtube.com/@davidstoloff1629
MUBECT DENS - https://www.facebook.com/groups/3857819954463527
LAC 400 - Exploring tools for future learning
Using AI, ask
Provide five examples of ethical issues for using technologies in [your profession]. Additionally,
include five references published in the last six years cited in this list of issues, formatted in APA style with URLs.