AI in Teaching
1. ‎Course and Content Creation: Large Language Models/Chat Bots.  Can help with tasks like answering questions, drafting documents, summarizing text, creating images, or automating processes.  Note. It is highly recommended to use, and cite, the LLM supported by your institution that conforms to their privacy and data protection policies.
  •  Cogniti – specifically designed for education, integrates with several learning management systems
  • ChatGPT Edu – specifically designed for education
  • Microsoft Copilot Chat
 Instructor Use Examples
  1. Generate course content – drafting framework/outline, summarizing topic, breaking topic down into manageable sections, creating examples
  2. Improving accessibility to material – generating alt text, creating summaries
  3. Assess student work - generating practice and/or discussion questions, facilitating Q & A, creating rubrics, creating personalized feedback
 Student Use Examples
  1. Using AI in assessment creation – students can develop a document that is a record of their interactions with AI as an appendix to an assessment
  2. Critically evaluate genAI responses –. students use genAI to generate a response to a question, then critical evaluate, elaborate on, and correct the AI-generated response.
  3. Ethics and Responsibility in AI - students engage with generative AI tools to critically assess their outputs, identifying and challenging inaccuracies or distortions that may contribute to biased or discriminatory outcomes.
2. Course and Content Organization AI.   Organizes course content, answer FAQs, automates queries, prompts students to check their understanding of material.  
  • Google NotebookLM
Uploaded materials may include:
  • Course-specific materials (lecture notes, slide text, course assignments, lab manuals, etc.) 
  • Transcripts from lecture recordings 
  • Supplementary reading materials (might include articles, reports, case studies, online resources) 
  • Textbooks 
  • Research publications (avoid multi-column pdf, find single column sources)
Instructor and Student Use Examples. Either instructors or students can use to organize course documents and summarize, create glossaries, quiz students, answer FAQs. 
  
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