Part II: – 6. AI-Assisted Work and Research
- Can your AI collaborator make your work better and easier? The authors suggest that you experiment to find out. This chapter contains many sample prompts you can use for a variety of purposes. It should be able to help with any literature review and citations. In any case, the use of AI should be disclosed. Both ends of the hiring process can benefit. A job seeker can use it to get a summary of the key issues facing an organization they wish to work at. This is the kind of homework you expect job applicants to do. Employers can use it to find red flags about applicants.
- Anyone doing marketing should give it a try, and teachers can use it to evaluate their work. There are samples of lengthly prompts here along with prompt templates the you can reuse after changing a few criteria. You can use it to analyze companies before you buy their stock. You can also test ideas and get feedback more quickly.
7. AL-Assisted Course Preparation and Beyond
- You should let an AI record and analyze your meetings. It not only can give you action items, but it can also let you know who is interrupting and dominating. Use it as a thinking partner to brainstorm ideas for class discussions. You can use it to create multiple versions of tests to discourage cheating and to make one-off make-up tests. Giving more low stakes tests is easier and it improves learning by promoting recall.
- Most of this chapter is composed of prompts you can try to support your teaching preparation and delivery.
8. Cheating and Detection
- There has alway been cheating and AI use and misuse is on the rise. Cheating with AI has become a top concern for faculty. Faculty use of AI lags behind that of students. Faculty are using a variety of AI detectors, but they all have issues with false positives. This can cause mental health problems for students. Students are using AI detectors too, some of which are not free. Wealthy students have access to better AI that is not free.
- Prompts can ask to use the favorite ideas from your professor, include a few undergraduate mistakes, write in your style, or not sound like AI. About 25% of corporate press releases use AI. Is this cheating or progress? Many faculty have resorted to writing in class or oral exams. They should stress the benefits of doing the work and the importance of integrity. They should let students know when they are using AI. They should use more active in-class learning activities, allow for extended deadlines, and make sure that workloads are reasonable.
9. Policies
- Your institution should have an AI policy by now. If it doesn’t, here are some things it should cover. Express that all faculty should be AI literate and that all students should have that as a goal as lacking it puts them at a serious disadvantage. Faculty and students should be transparent about their use of AI. Students should at least have a voice, if not a seat, in policy formation. Ethical AI use and integrity should be addressed. Students should have equal access. Share best practices. Course policies should align with department and institutional policies.
- Russell Group in the UK’s principles on the use of
generative AI tools in education
Binghamton University’s Generative AI Policy
10. Grading and (Re-)Defining Quality
- AI can do college level work, so students have to have higher expectations and add value. Consider AI the new average work and not good enough. Be sure to not grade spelling or grammar as students should be using tools to deal with this. You will need a rubric that shows what to expect at the absent, AI, good, and excellent levels. The authors provide a sample.
- The authors suggest that you use AI to help you grade if your institution allows it. Some already provide tools for this purpose. Most students like it as it should be less biased and less prone to fatigue while grading. You need to be transparent about this and get student permission. Use some papers from previous courses to calibrate your AI grading tool. There are AI grading prompts here you can use. While you are saving time, consider how to avoid grade inflation.
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