Number of Attendees
8
Where will the conversation continue?
Slack channel
Are you or someone you know doing cool things with AI in the classroom for teaching and learning?
Notes
Attendee introductions and what they’re looking for:
- Better student and staff experience – what can be streamlined using AI for students and staff? How to get around certain obstacles.
- Could we leverage AI to collect answers/how-to’s for students?
- Leverage AI to promote within different schools as it’s not being picked up quickly. Looking for examples to become more productive and efficient.
- Creating/uploading custom chatbots/agents for personal use.
- What pitfalls/hazards are out there?
- Use AI as a knowledge base to resolve problems.
Discussion
- Discussed Stanford tools like AI Playground and SecureGPT through Healthcare.
- Not “What is the AI capable of?” but “What skills do humans need to use the AI appropriately?”
- How do you measure someone’s competency when using AI?
- How do you assess students when adding AI to the curriculum?
- Staff are interested in hands-on or 1-to-1 training when learning AI instead of in large groups.
- Faculty will become interested if their colleagues are interested. Students are a big driver of using/learning AI.
- Faculty prefer to be contacted individually to learn how to use a tool.
- Discussion on building prompts piece by piece instead of an entire document. Follow-up prompts or questions from what the AI produced.
- Proposition of a Community of Practice
- Identify people who are using AI for cool things in teaching and learning.
- Lunch and learn or showcase events for social learning.
- Help get second-wave adopters onboard.
- The AI Tinkery department in CERAS (Jessica Ann) offers AI topic training every other week.
- UIT Technology Training offers several AI classes.
- Kenji will look into creating a Teaching and Learning AI channel in Slack.
