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This post shares search ideas for searching for AI information and resources provided by your faculty colleagues.
How Faculty are Searching
You may wish to search for information using these strategies. Note that as information is continuously published on AI, vetting the “academic credibility” (Leutwyler, 2000) of the source is critical.
Search by AI target user group
In 2022, Holmes and Tuomi provided a taxonomy of types of artificial intelligence in learning and education (AIED). It can be useful to search by user group or purpose.
Student-focused AIED: AI-assisted apps, AI-assisted simulations, AI to support learners with disabilities, automatic essay writing, chatbots, dialogue-based tutoring systems
Teacher-focused AIED: Plagiarism detection, curation of learning materials, classroom monitoring, AI teaching and assessment assistants
Institution-focused AEID: Admissions (student selection), course scheduling and timetabling, security, identifying at-risk students, and eProctoring.
Only a year later, in 2023, publicly available “Chatbots” perform the tasks and functions of many of these systems. However, specific tools continue to be developed to target and support different groups in education.
Search by teaching and learning goals
Many faculty are discovering there are various emerging areas of generative AI learning for students. You may be focused on building AI literacy skills, developing strategies to teach with AI, obtaining information about AI use in your industry or field, or exploring innovations in AI as the subject of your field.
4 Dimensions of Generative AI Learning
When you search, focus on finding information related to one goal in teaching and learning with genAI.
Search by instructional strategies
Generative AI is a new layer to consider on existing instructional strategies, so you may wish to integrate pedagogical concepts into your searches to find ideas for the types of learning activities you will use in your classes.
Direct: How can genAI support the creation of lecture content, demonstrations, instructions, overviews, and questions
Indirect: How can genAI guide and assist learners with brainstorming, mapping, organizing, case and scenario learning, discussion
Interactive: How can genAI provide technological enhancement to share perspectives and opinions, analyze and synthesize information, and solve problems, especially in small groups
Experiential: How can genAI support students who are learning by doing, such as engaging in simulation, roleplay, AR/VR, field observations, and hands-on practice with design and tools
Independent: How can genAI provide support for learning, including building reflection skills and fostering self-using creative designs, including not only writing but also multi-media development
Where Faculty Are Searching
From the workshop “AI in Education – Who We’re Watching” (EDV0143), faculty shared resources they use to keep informed about AI as it relates to their teaching, their industries, and their AI literacy. See the tables below (organized by information source type), and select the links to access the source.
Important to know how AI Chatbots are used in our Industry. This article will break it down on an institutional level, student level and faculty level.
Posts on how to decide what is permissable or not permissable, how to talk to students about AI usage in class, how to manage suspected academic misconduct due to AI use, etc.)
Academic/Education websites – links and recommendations
Curating the latest AI advancements in education into digestible insights, this blog empowers educators and administrators by demystifying AI and inspiring innovative teaching and learning strategies for the AI era.
Not exclusively AI, but AI comes up very regularly along with other useful information. Available on any podcast service for free. Very useful if you’re commuting to class!
Noah Kravitz brings in tech experts from Google, Deloitte, Oracle, etc bringing in an industry perspective along with success stories related to AI. Well-rounded episodes on how entrepreneurs and change makers are utilizing AI.
This a podcast hosted by Katherine Gorman and Neil Lawrence. The objective of this show is to bring you clear conversations with experts in the field of machine learning, insightful discussions of industry news, and useful answers to your questions.
Podcasts – tools and recommendations
Social Media Follows
Resource
Description/Notes
“Ethan Mollick”
Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. Author and thought leader on AI in education.
Provides 10 top tools that can be utilised in education, tools responding to certain needs of education, but also explains how each would be useful and effective.
OpenAi’s website. Provides primary information, how-to’s, and updates on the company’s products like ChatGPT and DALL-E. (It also has a direct link to sign up for ChatGPT
Using AI resources to curate new information about AI resources
Descript – Descript – https://descript.com – A website offering tools and services for creating, editing, and sharing audio and video content.
When I need to record a supplementary content, I use it to edit. Especially ‘Filler words’, like ummm, ahhh…so that my content is crisp and I don’t need to spend too much editing the content.
Provide descriptions for different AI tools. The second link is the Microsoft workshop site. These workshops are free. I like the AI series such as the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals: AI Overview would be very useful for either students or faculties.
AI Tools and uses – links and recommendations
Thank you to all of the faculty who contributed to this list! – Elan
Elan Paulson
Elan Paulson, PhD, has been an educator in Ontario's higher education system since 2004. Before joining Conestoga as a Teaching and Learning Consultant, Elan was on the executive team at eCampusOntario. She previously served as Program Director and as an instructor in professional education programs at Western University's Faculty of Education. With a Master's in Educational Technology, Elan specializes in technology-enabled and collaborative learning to support diverse learners. She has also conducted research on faculty participation in communities of practice for professional learning and self-care.
