Category: AI

February 18, 2025

8 Ways to Guide Students on the Potential Pitfalls of AI

Reading Time: 8 minutesReview reasons why students might use AI in spite of its restrictions, and explore different ways to help students avoid AI pitfalls they may encounter with AI (mis)use.

Categories AI/AI and Teaching/Getting Started with AI/Teaching

February 11, 2025

Use Mini-Scenarios to Talk to Students About AI

Reading Time: 5 minutesCustomize a mini-scenario that can be used to discuss with students academic integrity and the appropriate and ethical AI use for course work and assignments.

Categories AI/AI and Assessment/Teaching

February 4, 2025

Reflective Practice in SoTL: Crafting Good Research Questions with AI

Reading Time: 6 minutesPhoto by Jon Tyson on Unsplash The questions we ask ourselves as teachers are central to meaningful reflection and professional growth.  Reflective practice involves critically...

Categories AI/Teaching

January 3, 2025

Starter Slide Decks for Talking About AI With Students

Reading Time: 2 minutesDownload 3 starter PowerPoint starter slide decks for ideas to adapt as you talk to your students about AI and your course expectations.

Categories AI/AI and Teaching/Getting Started with AI

December 19, 2024

Generative AI Guidebook for Teaching

Reading Time: < 1 minuteVisit the GenAI Guidebook for Teaching, a digital resource to aid faculty with AI adoption in teaching, learning, assessment, and research on teaching.

Categories AI/Getting Started with AI/Teaching

December 10, 2024

AI Savvy Rubrics for Writing Assignments

Reading Time: 4 minutesConsiderations for designing and updating rubrics to reflect AI use permissions and a repository of examples of analytic and checklist rubric items

Categories AI/AI and Assessment/Rubrics and Marking/Teaching

December 3, 2024

Critical Thinking with AI: 3 Approaches 

Reading Time: 8 minutesThree “worked example” strategies to help students practice critical thinking using AI in the classroom.

Categories AI/AI and Learning/AI and Teaching

November 6, 2024

Using GenAI as a Learning Partner in Class 

Reading Time: 5 minutesDorina Grossu shares her approach to using genAI for inquiry-based learning and ideas for faculty who wish to bring AI to active learning in the classroom.

Categories AI/AI and Learning/Faculty Stories/Teaching

October 18, 2024

A Spectrum of Student AI Use in Classroom Learning Tasks

Reading Time: 5 minutesAn job aid that describes five types of learning tasks that can be completed with AI and three different approaches to using AI for each type of task.

Categories AI/AI and Learning/Teaching

October 1, 2024

Smart Solutions: Authentic Assessment for GenAI-Era Academic Integrity

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe rise of generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) in education has brought significant benefits, but it sometimes poses challenges to academic integrity. Traditional assessments are increasingly...

Categories Academic Integrity/AI and Assessment

September 26, 2024

STEM, AI, and You

Reading Time: 5 minutesWhere are you in your journey to bring the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into your STEM-related teaching? And how will AI impact your teaching...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/AI and Learning/AI and Teaching/Artificial Intelligence/Teaching

September 4, 2024

Faculty Ideas for Teaching with the GenAI Toolkit

Reading Time: 6 minutesGet some ideas for using the Generative AI Toolkit for Students in active learning ideas, suggested by faculty.

Categories AI and Teaching

July 18, 2024

Getting Started with Copilot in Your Class

Reading Time: 6 minutesWhy get started with Copilot in your class? Exposure helps students get better at using Copilot and other generative AI chatbot tools. It also helps...

Categories AI/AI and Teaching/Teaching

May 30, 2024

Generative AI: Ban it or bring it on? One Professor’s Perspective

Reading Time: 4 minutesMichael Quartermain, School of Business, reflects on the benefits and drawbacks of AI adoption at the college.

Categories AI/Faculty Services

May 30, 2024

AI-Adapting Activities and Assignments: Part 1 of 2

Reading Time: 6 minutesIdeas for adapting activities and assessments for the closed or prohibited use of AI

Categories AI/AI and Assessment/AI and Learning

May 30, 2024

AI-Adapting Activities and Assesments: Part 2 of 2

Reading Time: 7 minutesIdeas for adapting activities and assessments for the conditional or open use of AI

Categories AI/AI and Assessment/Teaching

May 28, 2024

Heart emoji, crying face emoji: A reflection on the emotional facets of teaching

Reading Time: 5 minutesIn collaboration with Sara Kafashan  This past winter semester, I experienced a familiar feeling: I found myself getting frustrated with students repeatedly emailing me for...

Categories AI and Assessment/Communicating With Students/Reflective Practice/Teaching

May 16, 2024

Embedding AI in Activities and Assessments: A “5 for 1” Deal

Reading Time: 4 minutesA faculty story about integrating AI into in-class activities and assessments

Categories AI/AI and Assessment/AI and Learning

May 6, 2024

Accessible Teaching with Copilot 

Reading Time: 5 minutesAn overview of accessible learning at the College and provides ideas for supporting accessible learning using generative AI and AI-supported classroom tools. 

Categories Accessible Learning/AI and Teaching/Teaching

April 2, 2024

Start, Continue, or End Learning with AI

Reading Time: 5 minutesUse AI selectively and in only part of your learning activity or assessment to foster student engagement while building genAI literacy skills.

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/AI and Learning/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching

April 1, 2024

Uses of Student Work: What You Can and Cannot Do

Reading Time: 2 minutesStudents have intellectual rights under Canadian copyright law to the work they create during their post-secondary education. They also have privacy rights that mean student...

Categories AI and Assessment/Assessing Learning/Student Rights and Responsibilities

April 1, 2024

Building Educator AI Literacy

Reading Time: 5 minutesA selection of ways that faculty can build their AI literacy and upskill for teaching and learning.

Categories AI and Resource Creation/Getting Started with AI

April 1, 2024

Support Class Learning Activities with AI

Reading Time: 4 minutesLearn about two different approaches to using genAI to support learning activities in your classroom.

Categories AI/AI and Learning

March 15, 2024

Active Learning with AI

Reading Time: 10 minutesActive learning ideas and tips for use using generative AI chatbots like Copilot

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/AI and Learning/AI and Teaching/Teaching

March 12, 2024

Support Teaching Activities with AI

Reading Time: 3 minutesA concise introduction to integrating this technology into our pedagogy by using it to develop lessons, professor-guided active learning, and supportive practice activities.

Categories AI and Learning/AI and Teaching/Teaching

March 6, 2024

Rethinking Academic Integrity in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence

Reading Time: 4 minutesAs professors, our responsibility to uphold academic integrity becomes increasingly complex with the integration of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) in the learning environment, prompting a...

Categories Academic Integrity/AI and Assessment

March 6, 2024

Describe and Document AI Use

Reading Time: 9 minutes4 ways students can provide transparency and demonstrate academic integrity in their collaboration with generative AI

Categories AI and Assessment/AI and Resource Creation

February 26, 2024

An Early Story of Managing AI Use in a Writing Course 

Reading Time: 4 minutesThree consultants and professors describe how they anticipated and responded to unauthorized AI use in a writing course.

Categories AI and Assessment/AI and Resource Creation

February 23, 2024

The Evolving Field of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chatbots

Reading Time: 13 minutesIn this post, we’ll explore what generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are and try to understand how we’ve gotten to this point in AI technology...

Categories AI and Teaching/Artificial Intelligence/Getting Started with AI/Teaching

January 24, 2024

Decoding AI Hype for Teaching and Learning

Reading Time: 4 minutesAn article that discusses the hype around generative AI, and ideas to respond to it in the context of teaching and learning.

Categories AI and Teaching/Getting Started with AI

January 23, 2024

Email Templates Responding to Suspected Student Use of AI 

Reading Time: 5 minutesIn this post, we will explore three scenarios in which you may need to contact students by email to express concern about suspected inappropriate AI...

Categories Academic Integrity/AI and Assessment/Assessment Challenges

November 27, 2023

The Optional Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Assessments 

Reading Time: 3 minutesAre you considering inviting students to use generative artificial intelligence (genAI) in completing an assessment in your course? Is knowledge of genAI required for workplace...

Categories AI and Assessment/Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments/Teaching

November 24, 2023

Searching for AI and Teaching Information 

Reading Time: 6 minutesTopics and ideas for searching for GenAI and education

Categories AI and Teaching/Teaching

November 15, 2023

Academic Integrity and Assessment in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)

Reading Time: 4 minutesA fair and accurate assessment provides evidence of a student’s learning under their own cognitive efforts. Concerns around academic integrity, however, can cast doubt on an...

Categories AI and Assessment/Assessing Learning/Assessment Quick Guides/Getting Started with AI

October 6, 2023

Exploring Grammarly 

Reading Time: 3 minutesFAQ information about Grammarly in Conestoga courses

Categories AI and Assessment/AI and Teaching/Teaching

September 18, 2023

Uses of AI Chatbots in Education

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn this post, we’ll explore the potential applications of chatbots in educational contexts and consider some examples in use in different contexts. Visit my previous...

Categories AI and Teaching/Artificial Intelligence/Teaching/Tech For Teaching

August 3, 2023

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Assessment Statements for Students

Reading Time: 3 minutesBefore we get started, please note: The college continues to update its guidelines for experimentation with genAI technologies in teaching and learning. Consult the AI...

Categories AI and Assessment/Assessing Learning/Assessment Quick Guides

July 7, 2023

Advising Students on Detection Software Used in Assessments

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis guide is provided to you by Teaching and Learning and the Privacy Office at Conestoga. Messaging to Students on Detection Software Used in Assessments...

Categories AI and Assessment/Assessing Learning/Assessment Quick Guides/Student Focused Assessment

June 19, 2023

Using Turnitin’s Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Detection Tool and the Process Guide for Navigating Potential Academic Offences

Reading Time: 4 minutesGenerative AI (genAI) has brought new challenges, opportunities, and questions in terms of the assessment of student work. Large Language Models (LLMs), the technology that...

Categories Academic Integrity/AI and Assessment/Assessing Learning

June 1, 2023

Faculty Ideas for Talking with Students About Grammarly 

Reading Time: 6 minutesIdeas for talking about Grammarly with students and using Grammarly with written assignments

Categories AI and Assessment/AI and Learning/AI and Teaching/Assessing Learning/Reflective Practice/Teaching

June 1, 2023

Citing Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is important to provide students with clear directions on how to cite any permitted use of generative AI (genAI) in assessments. These directions can...

Categories Academic Integrity/AI and Assessment/Assessing Learning

April 17, 2023

Student Authors and AI Writing Tools

Reading Time: 4 minutesReview ideas for encouraging students to see where and how their voice matters in course-related writing in the age of AI writing tools.

Categories AI and Assessment/AI and Teaching/Assessing Learning/Teaching

April 26, 2022

Getting Started with Grammarly

Reading Time: 2 minutesA post by Library Services that provides an overview of Grammarly, a tool for supporting writing and proofreading

Categories AI and Assessment/AI and Teaching/Library Services/Teaching International Students