Faculty AI Showcase
Demian Hommel
Q&A prior to leaving
What about AI hallucinations?
Laurie Bridges shared in Chat: This is in response to the question that was asked about hallucinations. An op-ed I published last month about Hallucinations (no need to share out, I’m just posting this to chat). https://thefulcrum.us/ai-literacy-misinformation
AI can generate invalid inf, but so do people
Do you have any sense of how the folks that choose not to use AI feel about others using it in a justified way? i.e. different standards applied? Great ideas here though! (online)
Within a year, probably we'll all be using AI agents whether we want to or not
I respect students' choice to "opt out"
Will students reflect about their use of GenAI at the end of the quarter?
Not sure
Meta-cognition?
Another question about enforcing collaborative guidelines
More concerned that students are thinking about it
Still not sure how this will work
One question about consensus with students
Co-creating AI Use Policies
Co-creation is a possible path forward
Damien wants to create opportunities for legitimate use of GenAI
Challenge: Ideas vs. Cheating and Laziness
Can everyone agree on a single policy?
If students don't understand OUR policies, they'll default to THEIR OWN understanding
Communication is key
Want to learn WITH us
They see risks and benefit and want structured guidance
Students want clarity
Most think consensus could be generated, but it would be difficult
Why should we use AI?
self help
efficiency
accessibility
Ideas
Why shouldn't we use AI?
Concerns about critical thinking
Lazy
Cheating
Should you be able to use GenAI: 73% say "yes"
Using Top Hat and Canvas questions, Are you using GenAI -- 54% said "yes"
This presentation is NOT rigorous and NOT scientific; it is a thought experiment
Geography & Geospatial Science
Q&A Panel
Employers are moving toward "skill-based" hiring vs. credentials... How does use of AI enhance skill development?
In clinical use, students will use AI for patient care. They still need to think critically.
Bret: COB uses AI for interview practice and shows promise; we're still looking how we give experiential learning in different ways
What happens if students use AI to generate their responses on reflections?
Didn't, but should have, checked original response to compare with the AI feedback
Should OSU have a university-wide policy on GenAI?
Choose your adventure is better than University-wide, too broad brush
What about AI equity?
Bret: Focused on Copilot since it is available to all students (microphone was off, couldn't hear most of response)
Ana-Maria M'Ernesti
Her conclusions
Copilot is digitally accessible for all students
She decided not to use Copilot in the future
Steps for students
Post-assignment student feedback
Unhappy
2 students had a negative experience
So-so
4 students were mixed in satisfaction
Some were happy
Shared student comments
6/12 were satisfied
Submit both the reflection and the Copilot export
Write a 100-150 word reflection on your experience
Compare a recommendation from Copilot with feedback from Peers
How accurate was it
How effective was Copilot
Create a Word documents using the export option, including feedback in the Word document
After they write, they are given a prompt to copy/paste to Copilot for feedback
Sign-in to Copilot
AI powered Peer Review Assignment
Instructor Feedback
Peer-review
Get feedback from Copilot
Submit an initial post
Transformed a traditional review assignment by integrating Copilot
Some of what she was going to talk about had already been covered, so she skipped
College of Liberal Arts, French
Ehren Pflugfelder
Using Copilot as editing help
Using Copilot to create generic content
Shared a brief prompt
Using Copilot to represent consensus
Shared a brief prompt used in a discussion
Discussed whether pedagogy aligned with use of Gen AI
Avoiding "aggressive" surveillance of student behaviors using AI
Spoke about organized living groups systematically reusing previous work
AI in Advanced Technical Writing using a CARE framework
Ethical
Rhetorical
Authorial
Critical
Bret Carpenter
Future development
Student support Agent
Agent Development
Workflow
Deploy
Scalke
Iterate
Create assignment
Prompt Interaction
Test
The agent will interact with itself as both the Agent and the Student!
Review
First draft of prompt for student use
Or, write some instructions and ask agent to write the prompt
Write a prompt and have agent review
Technical setup
Split Screen testing
Sidebar use
Edge browser
Copilot Agent Creation
Uses
Developing content, assignments, rubrics; assignment review; preliminary grading; student support chatbot
Knowledge Base
Customize how the agent will work with faculty or students
Instructions
Creating good prompts
Things like background info, context, audience, tone, role, and what not to do are automatically included
Copilot Studio
Development of custom agents
College of Business
Colin Mulligan
Moving Forward
Be student-centered in approach
Identify areas within course where AI is appropriate
Assess your assignments and rubrics to account for AI
Collaborate with colleagues and University resources
Themes
Limitations
Should not be used to replace human judgment and critical thinking
17/18 students mentioned this in their own words
Inaccurate or mischaracterizing
Failure to consider nuance
Lack of overall depth
Strengths of AI
AI could be used to spark new ideas or consider alternative perspectives
Organize and break down broader points of study
Reflection
Included discussion prompts for each week TL;DR
Timeline
Week 5: Announcement of key themes
Week 5: Relection and peer discussion
Week 4: AI assessment of peer-reviewed article
Week 3: Critically assess peer-reviewed article
Collaboration ties together Curiosity, student-centered, and forward thinking
Have students engage with AI and think critically
Empower students to be curiouss
Challenge to integrate AI into WIC
Forward-thinking
Of course, they'll use GenAI, how can we guide them?
Don't ask questions you don't want to know
Student-centered
Check my underlying biases
Why would our students use AI?
Are they lazy?
Curiosity
Showed an example of a Chat GPT response to a course question
Doesn't really say anything
Concerned about "composing a 2,000 word document"
Use in a WIC
College of Health
Opening
Cub Kahn - moderator
Demian Hommel will have to leave hearly
There will be about 10 minutes for each speaker with Q&A at the end
Consider what you hear today might apply in your teaching
Shared survey that most students use AI, less than half of faculty use AI.
Shannon Riggs and Ashley Holmes
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