Teaching in an AI World
The wide availability of AI and especially ChatGPT raises a number of questions and issues for educators. This page looks at the best way to address both concerns and opportunities.
General Guidance and Information
U.S. Office of Educational Technology: Artificial Intelligence -- This page includes general educational policy recommendations regarding AI, a link to the report: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning, and links to Listening Sessions and blog posts from the OET on the subject.
The AI Assessment Scale
How ChatGPT Can Help You Do Your Work
ChatGPT can do the following tasks to specifically help you as an instructor:
- Generate responses to common student questions or emails.
- Create test questions or test question answer options.
- Draft lesson plans or assignment instructions.
- Generate feedback comments to create a comment bank for assignments.
- Create examples or samples for students to compare their own work to or analyze.
- Help you keep up with video training opportunities: How to Summarize a Video with ChatGPT and other AI tools
You can also integrate ChatGPT in specific situations:
- Walk students through how to use ChatGPT like a sophisticated version of Grammarly to revise and edit their writing.
- Demonstrate how to use ChatGPT as a basic tutoring tool to help students get explanations for confusing concepts.
- Use ChatGPT to give students’ real-time feedback on their writing in language learning classes
Copyright and Plagiarism
Make sure students are aware that "copyright" and "ownership" in regard to AI-assisted generation is a legal minefield.
- To begin with, point out to students that OpenAI's Terms of Use prohibit users from “represent[ing] that output from the Services was human-generated when it is not.”
- Also point out Bing chatbot's Terms of Use for their statement on Ownership of Content, etc.
- Cambridge Press provides useful guidelines for AI Contributions to Research Content that links to an equally useful explanation about who qualifies for "authorship".
- The Congressional Research Service has put out a useful summary of the copyright concerns and arguments in one of their Legal Sidebars entitled Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law.
- The U. S. Copyright Office put out a paper in the Federal Register (2023, March 16) stating that only works created by humans can be registered for copyright. It has subsequently issued clarifications to this position, which are summarized in this blogpost by the Copyright Alliance: 3 Takeaways When Registering Your Copyright in an AI-Assisted Work.
- The Copyright Alliance has summarized the most important Current AI Copyright Cases in these two blogposts: Current AI Copyright Cases – Part 1 and Current AI Copyright Cases – Part 2.
Sample Statements and Policies
Instructors are advised to address AI and ChatGPT on their syllabus. Here are some sample statements to consider:
Turnitin and AI Use Detection
Advise students of Turnitin's AI Detector if you will be requiring students to use it. Although Turnitin is claiming 98% success, understand that all AI detectors are working with a moving target and people in the AI field don't recommend relying exclusively on detectors because they are necessarily reacting to a constantly evolving situation. It is also important to note that TurnItIn's claims have not been verified by another source. As of July 24, 2023, OpenAI has shut down its own detector for its failure to perform.
Research on ChatGPT
All lot of research is beginning to become available on ChatGPT in education. Some pertinent articles and presentations.
Excellent Supplemental Web Sites
These sites have lots of great additional information for you to explore.
