September 19, 2024Book Review: Teaching with AIby Amanda SturgillBowen, José Antonio, and C. Edward Watson. 2024. Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. Bowen and Watson’s work has the mixed blessing of being a first attempt to…
August 27, 2024Podcast Episodes with Interesting Ideas about AI and Educationby Amanda SturgillOne of my favorite ways to double time on professional development is to listen to podcasts while I commute to work. There are quite a few podcasts in the education space at all levels, from kindergarten through graduate school. I’ve…
August 20, 2024Using Generative AI to Support Global Learning Could Leave Cultural Lessons Lost in Translationby Amanda SturgillI feel a little silly, but also proud to say that I was able to, at least minimally, keep my language learning streak alive while I took a vacation to Europe last month. Since the throes of COVID, I’ve been…
August 1, 2024Applying Lessons Learned about Student Use of Generative AI in Academicsby Aaron TrockiIn previous blog posts, I shared the results of a focus group interview about students’ perceptions of using generative AI in their academics. The focus group interview took place at the end of fall semester 2023 after my students completed an…
July 15, 2024Refresh: Preparing Students to Be Literate and Critical AI Usersby Matt WittsteinLimed: Teaching with a TwistSeason 2, Episode 11 This month, Matt Wittstein checks in with Dr. Jessica Gisclair from Season 2, Episode 1 “Preparing Students to Be Literate and Critical AI Users.” Jessica is an Associate Professor of Strategic Communication…
July 5, 2024AI and Academic Integrityby Amanda SturgillSome of the early conversation about generative AI in education was its affordances for cheating. There were scores of social media posts. Institutions held discussions about how much, if any, to invest in AI detection software. And several thinkpieces opined about the…
June 20, 2024AI, Higher Ed and the Hype Cycleby Amanda SturgillIs AI going to make our lives worse? An interesting study came out recently from Elon’s Imagining the Digital Future Center (Rainie and Husser 2024) that sort of asked that question, in relation to deep fakes (United States Government Accountability Office 2020) and politics…
May 14, 2024Student-Reported Benefits and Tensions about Generative AI in Academics: Part 2by Aaron TrockiIn part one of this two-part blog post, I shared some findings from a focus group interview conducted at the end of last semester. In the first part of the focus group interview, students provided their reactions to the Artificial…
April 23, 2024Student-Reported Benefits and Tensions about Generative AI in Academics: Part 1by Aaron TrockiMy ongoing exploration of how generative AI might be used in assessment practices has revealed some benefits to teaching and learning, some drawbacks, and some tensions. Sharing this exploration through these blog posts and having numerous discussions about higher education…
March 12, 2024Utilizing a Framework for Artificial Intelligence-Supported Assessments: Part 2by Aaron TrockiIn December I introduced a framework to support faculty with the complexities of incorporating generative AI into their assessments. One feature of this framework encourages the consideration of separating assessment components into AI-active and AI-inactive sections to better articulate expectations…