AI Corner: An Approach to AI in the Classroom, Rooted in Curiosity

By Melissa Polen About a year ago, you could have found me in my office dreading the thought of grading homework. I was worried that I had somehow become the “AI Police,” which was never a role I wanted. Each time I read a paper that felt like it had been written by AI (the word “delve” has suddenly become extremely popular), I turned to...

AI Corner: Putting the Robots to Work with Course Design Companion

By Nate Madrone Following the recommendations from last week’s AI Corner, I asked ChatGPT to find ways in which I could leverage genAI in my day-to-day work. Now, if you know me at all, you probably know that I already use genAI daily to do things like brainstorm ideas, refine wording and understand complex situations. So, I really felt like I was already leveraging it...

AI Corner: Get More Out of AI

By April Hamlin The Faculty Fireside Chat team invites you to check out this fantastic video on YouTube about getting more out of generative artificial intelligence from Jeremy Utley, who has suggested that we could all be working with genAI more creatively to get our work done. He has three strategies for approaching AI in better, more productive ways: Try it for yourself: What we...

Introducing ‘AI Corner’

Brought to you by the Faculty Fireside Chat The Faculty Fireside Chat group started meeting informally in winter term, one year ago, to discuss the impacts that faculty were seeing in their classrooms as a result of generative artificial intelligence (genAI). Since then, this group of dedicated folx has worked on several projects to heighten awareness of artificial intelligence as it relates to teaching and...