Are you using AI in your classes?
I admit, I am super curious about using Artificial Intelligence (e.g., ChatGPT) for teaching and learning. Are you using it today to support your instruction? If so, in what ways?
If you're not using it or find AI unfit/unsound for instruction, I am curious to know why you think that?
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I'm using AI in my online course. Using Bard and Perplexity for now, I copy/paste announcements, course information, and some discussion replies into AI and ask for it to rewrite my words so they're more understandable and engaging for college students, for example. I might do that for both AI bots and/or run it again in one or both for comparison, etc. It has been making a difference for me.
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Believe it or not, I LIKE writing and enjoy finding just the right word or phrase to convey what I mean. If it has been a struggle, I enjoy the victory. So, I haven't used AI in my content creation. I have used it to create "lorem ipsum" fake content for temporary use in wireframes, in providing "work" for teachers-in-training to practice marking in D2L.
For my learners, I am interested in what they learn, what they think, not in what ChatGPT "knows" and can predict with its LLM. As it happens, I will be teaching this fall for the first time in over two years. Last night I wrote my first AI policy statement to add to the University's "it's up to the instructor" policy Here is what I put in my syllabus. I use Turnitin, btw.
"For this course, a maximum acceptable inclusion of non-orginal content (including direct quotes and AI-generated content) in submitted work is 15%. All sources must be cited, and all use of AI-generated materials must be indicated."
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Thank you John and Emily for your responses.
AI is indeed useful for cleaning up one's writing. And if it's helping you create engaging announcements and discussion replies, then it that seems like a plus.
I can also relate to Renee's thoughts around enjoying the the struggle of the writing process itself. I recently read a thoughtful/provocative essay by the author, musician, Nick Cave, who argues that AI is poor substitute for the creative act of songwriting and makes a strong argument found here.
I've been experimenting with dictating my ideas to my computer, then taking the transcription and using ChatGPT to clean it up. The results have been interesting. ChatGPT will edit out the ums and uhs and use different words to shorten/tighten my content making it more concise without removing any meaning. At first I was surprised that it was literally rewriting my ideas. The changes of meaning were there and quite subtle, so that was challenging for me initially. I went back and asked it to "retranslate" my original thoughts and keep as much as my vocabulary as possible. Again, the results were positive (it used my words/content and took out the ums and uhs) so it was nice to see I had options.
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On the student side of using AI, I had an unexpected thing happen this week in one of my online discussions. A student notified me that another student's discussion post looked very similar to one of their discussion posts which was submitted before the other student's. I checked and the student was right. The other student's post was basically the same post but had been reworded/rephrased, although some of the first student's post was unchanged. I'm thinking that the original post was submitted to an AI text bot such as Perplexity or Bard where the student's prompt was to reword the original discussion post. And then the student submitted the AI version as their own post. I emailed the student about the possibility of their using AI but have not heard back yet.
Has anyone else come across this possible AI use in their online discussions? Would this use be termed plagiarism?
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@John.T.67 RE: "Would this be termed plagiarism?" – My first reaction would be – do you have policies at your institution that address the use of AI/chatbots/LLMs and what roles they can be used for? If there are no policies in place, I might start a discussion with my department chair and see what they recommend (I always start with my chain of command–a very CYA thing, for sure, but it keeps me out of trouble).
A quick Google search on academic integrity and the use of AI, chatbots, and LLMs led me to a raft of research that higher education is doing in this area. This article does a nice job of surfacing major concerns and applying policy recommendations.
And like you, I'm curious how others here are handling the situation.
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Thanks for the feedback, Christopher. I emailed a description of the situation to our campus online admin. Waiting to hear what they have to say. Haven't brought it to my dept. chair yet. Thought I'd get some feedback first since I'll bet there's nothing in writing to address AI and plagiarism.
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@John.T.67 Would it be plagiarism? Of course it is. But it has nothing to do with A.I. The second student clearly lifted the first student's ideas and tried to pass them off as their own. It doesn't matter if they used an a.i. tool to do the re-wording or not. Ultimately, I think the student believes you won't notice or that you are not reading them.
