[FUN_Mail] Still want more on Generative AI?

[Amy Jo Stavnezer]

The Consortium for Teaching and Learning through the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) is hosting a presentation this Thursday.  Please see below and follow their link to register – this is not a FUN organized event:

CTL Webinar: Thursday, August 24 (12:00 PM ET)

You are invited to an upcoming GLCA CTL presentation:  The Rise of Generative AI: Implications and Innovations for Education

Do you have a strategy for addressing generative AI in your classes this fall? Whether you plan to avoid it, are eager to have students use it, or somewhere in between, it is critical to have open and frank discussions with your students.

Please join us on Thursday, August 24, at 12:00 PM EDT for the presentation The Rise of Generative AI: Implications and Innovations for Education, by Lew Ludwig, Co-Director of GLCA/GLAA Consortium for Teaching and Learning. In this presentation we will:

  1.  Tackle questions about AI posed by attendees during registration.
  2.  Offer actionable strategies for discussing generative AI with your students.
  3.  Showcase practical AI applications that faculty can integrate to enhance teaching and familiarize themselves with this emerging technology.

Please register here<https://forms.gle/s3tAUmtWrxGgFq75A> to attend this event. Note, the session will be recorded for later distribution. Only registered participants will be granted access to the recording.  Registered attendees will receive a link to attend via email the day before the event.


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A.I. and Higher Ed

You’ve Checked Out the New AI Tools. Now What?<https://www.chronicle.com/article/youve-checked-out-the-new-ai-tools-now-what?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_7517700_nl_Afternoon-Update_date_20230817&cid=pm&source=ams&sourceid=> (Michelle D. Miller, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 17, 2023): Three steps to help you envision the role of ChatGPT – first in your academic discipline and then in your classroom.

A ChatGPT Teaching Experiment<https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/just-visiting/2023/08/16/chatgpt-teaching-experiment?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=7cae0dd2c1-DNU_2021_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-7cae0dd2c1-198520633&mc_cid=7cae0dd2c1&mc_eid=db90bf87ba> (John Warner, Inside Higher Ed, August 16, 2023): Start with your core pedagogical values when it comes to incorporating ChatGPT.

Why Aren’t We Asking Questions of AI?<https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/08/16/what-will-ai-do-question-based-inquiry-opinion?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=7cae0dd2c1-DNU_2021_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-7cae0dd2c1-198520633&mc_cid=7cae0dd2c1&mc_eid=db90bf87ba> (Sean Ross Meehan, Inside Higher Ed, August 16, 2023): As students and professors grow more skilled at commanding chatbots to produce the outputs they want, the author wonders what this will mean for question-based inquiry.

Paper Exams, Chatbot Bans: Colleges Seek to ‘ChatGPT-Proof’ Assignments<https://apnews.com/article/chatgpt-cheating-ai-college-1b654b44de2d0dfa4e50bf0186137fc1?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Issue:%202023-08-14%20Higher%20Ed%20Dive%20%5Bissue:53523%5D&utm_term=Higher%20Ed%20Dive> (Jocelyn Gecker, AP, August 10, 2023): Educators say they want to embrace the technology’s potential to teach and learn in new ways<https://apnews.com/article/chatgpt-ai-use-school-essay-7bc171932ff9b994e04f6eaefc09319f>, but when it comes to assessing students, they see a need to “ChatGPT-proof” test questions and assignments.

AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype<https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-focus-on-ais-real-harms-not-imaginary-existential-risks/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=week-in-science&utm_content=link&utm_term=2023-08-18_top-stories> (Emily Bender, Scientific American): Effective regulation of AI needs grounded science that investigates real harms, not glorified press releases about existential risks.


Amy Jo Stavnezer
Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology<https://amyjostavnezer.voices.wooster.edu/>
College of Wooster
Member, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience<https://www.funfaculty.org/>
Editorial Board, Journal for Undergraduate Neuroscience Education <http://www.funjournal.org/>

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   The Consortium for Teaching and Learning through the Great Lakes
   Colleges Association (GLCA) is hosting a presentation this Thursday.
   Please see below and follow their link to register – this is not a FUN
   organized event:


   CTL Webinar: Thursday, August 24 (12:00 PM ET)


   You are invited to an upcoming GLCA CTL presentation:  The Rise of
   Generative AI: Implications and Innovations for Education


   Do you have a strategy for addressing generative AI in your classes
   this fall? Whether you plan to avoid it, are eager to have students use
   it, or somewhere in between, it is critical to have open and frank
   discussions with your students.


   Please join us on Thursday, August 24, at 12:00 PM EDT for the
   presentation The Rise of Generative AI: Implications and Innovations
   for Education, by Lew Ludwig, Co-Director of GLCA/GLAA Consortium for
   Teaching and Learning. In this presentation we will:
    1. Tackle questions about AI posed by attendees during registration.
    2. Offer actionable strategies for discussing generative AI with your
       students.
    3. Showcase practical AI applications that faculty can integrate to
       enhance teaching and familiarize themselves with this emerging
       technology.


   Please [1]register here to attend this event. Note, the session will be
   recorded for later distribution. Only registered participants will be
   granted access to the recording.  Registered attendees will receive a
   link to attend via email the day before the event.



   More articles

   A.I. and Higher Ed


   [2]You’ve Checked Out the New AI Tools. Now What? (Michelle D. Miller,
   Chronicle of Higher Education, August 17, 2023): Three steps to help
   you envision the role of ChatGPT – first in your academic discipline
   and then in your classroom.


   [3]A ChatGPT Teaching Experiment (John Warner, Inside Higher Ed, August
   16, 2023): Start with your core pedagogical values when it comes to
   incorporating ChatGPT.


   [4]Why Aren’t We Asking Questions of AI? (Sean Ross Meehan, Inside
   Higher Ed, August 16, 2023): As students and professors grow more
   skilled at commanding chatbots to produce the outputs they want, the
   author wonders what this will mean for question-based inquiry.


   [5]Paper Exams, Chatbot Bans: Colleges Seek to ‘ChatGPT-Proof’
   Assignments (Jocelyn Gecker, AP, August 10, 2023): Educators say they
   want to embrace the [6]technology’s potential to teach and learn in new
   ways, but when it comes to assessing students, they see a need to
   “ChatGPT-proof” test questions and assignments.


   [7]AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity
   Hype (Emily Bender, Scientific American): Effective regulation of AI
   needs grounded science that investigates real harms, not glorified
   press releases about existential risks.



   Amy Jo Stavnezer

   [8]Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology

   College of Wooster

   Member, [9]Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience

   Editorial Board, [10]Journal for Undergraduate Neuroscience Education

References

   1. https://forms.gle/s3tAUmtWrxGgFq75A
   2. https://www.chronicle.com/article/youve-checked-out-the-new-ai-tools-now-what?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_7517700_nl_Afternoon-Update_date_20230817&cid=pm&source=ams&sourceid=
   3. https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/just-visiting/2023/08/16/chatgpt-teaching-experiment?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=7cae0dd2c1-DNU_2021_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-7cae0dd2c1-198520633&mc_cid=7cae0dd2c1&mc_eid=db90bf87ba
   4. https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/08/16/what-will-ai-do-question-based-inquiry-opinion?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=7cae0dd2c1-DNU_2021_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-7cae0dd2c1-198520633&mc_cid=7cae0dd2c1&mc_eid=db90bf87ba
   5. https://apnews.com/article/chatgpt-cheating-ai-college-1b654b44de2d0dfa4e50bf0186137fc1?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Issue: 2023-08-14 Higher Ed Dive [issue:53523]&utm_term=Higher Ed Dive
   6. https://apnews.com/article/chatgpt-ai-use-school-essay-7bc171932ff9b994e04f6eaefc09319f
   7. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-focus-on-ais-real-harms-not-imaginary-existential-risks/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=week-in-science&utm_content=link&utm_term=2023-08-18_top-stories
   8. https://amyjostavnezer.voices.wooster.edu/
   9. https://www.funfaculty.org/
  10. http://www.funjournal.org/