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Teaching with AI: Concerns and Opportunities

ChatGPT and pedagogy

As of January 2024, CCAD officially only mentions AI in course syllabi under Academic Misconduct:

Academic Misconduct 
Academic misconduct most commonly takes the form of plagiarism, which is defined as: 

  • Reproducing and submitting another person’s work as one’s own;
  • Using another person’s original ideas without providing appropriate credit;
  • Using material from other sources, online or otherwise, without acknowledgment;
  • Misrepresenting oneself as another individual when completing assignments;
  • Failure to cite or incorrectly cite images, statements, or generated information from the use of artificial intelligence technology, such as Chat GPT; 
  • Co-constructing assignments without instructor knowledge and/or approval.

Thinking about ChatGPT as a pedagogy problem, rather than a plagiarism problem, is a productive way to approach teaching about generative AI.

  • Scaffolding assignments mitigates
    • library anxiety
    • imposter syndrome
    • accidental plagiarism.
  • Rather than assigning a big, summative paper or project at the end of the course, breaking it up into stages with student reflection reinforces original work and a growth mindset that can reduce the perceived need for students using a tool such as ChatGPT.

AI & Pedagogy Resources

Educators to follow for teaching ideas

1. Ethan Mollick, Wharton School at Univ. of Pennsylvania.

New! Student use cases for AI, Mollick & Mollick, Sept. 2023.

Start with these articles from his newsletter:

Sign up for his newsletter: One Useful Thing. And read his paper: Mollick, Ethan R. and Mollick, Lilach, Using AI to Implement Effective Teaching Strategies in Classrooms: Five Strategies, Including Prompts (March 17, 2023).


2. Dr. Philippa Hardman, Learning designer from the UK
Start with these articles from her newsletter:
Post-AI Assessment
A ChatGPT Prompt for Learner Equity
See also her talk: The AI Education Revolution is Coming, or is it?- TEDx Santa Barbara


3. Brent Anders, American University of Armenia
From his blog: Writing assignments in the age of AI
How ChatGPT Can Help Prevent Violations of Academic Integrity

See also his book for ideas for teaching AI literacy concepts, The AI Literacy Imperative: Empowering Instructors & Students.