Artificial Intelligence & Teaching

• Accessibility and AI: AI improves educational accessibility by enhancing text-to-speech in tests, automating content descriptions for visually impaired students, and enabling voice-command web interactions.
• Lesson Planning: Educators can use AI for brainstorming and drafting comprehensive lesson plans and activities.
• Quiz and Exercise Design: AI assists in creating innovative quiz questions and other learning exercises.
• Customizing Learning Materials: AI aids in adjusting content to different reading levels, simplifying language, and creating activities tailored to diverse interests.
• Writing Feedback: AI provides grammatical or structural suggestions on writing.
• Upskilling Activities: AI tools have been used for skill enhancement in areas like writing and coding. They can debug code, revise writing, and provide explanations.
• Editing & Production. AI can help educators more quickly produce and edit slides videos, and audio.

Update Your Course Syllabus for Chat GPT

AI Implications in Teaching and Learning

Chat GPT and Education

• CTE Technology with AI Cheating Detection: CTE offers using Respondus Monitor to detect using AI. Turnitin detects plagiarism by comparing submissions to a vast academic database. Respondus Monitor uses webcams to deter cheating during online exams. Check CTE's Educational Technology page for "Exam and Proctoring."
• Identify AI Patterns: AI texts often show noticeable patterns such as irrelevant content, verbose sentences, or lack of coherency.
• Use Plagiarism Detection Tools: AI writing tools often use web content, which can be detected by plagiarism tools.
• Subject Knowledge: AI may struggle with detailed, nuanced information in complex subjects.
• Observe Changes in Student Performance: Sudden improvements in a student's writing might indicate AI use.
• AI to Detect AI: Emerging AI tools can detect AI-generated content. Classifiers can be helpful in detecting AI-generated content, but they are not foolproof!

• Socratic Method: Stimulate critical thinking through discussion and questions instead of one-way information delivery.
• Diversify Assignments: Use a variety of tasks like quizzes, essays, and projects to cater to different learning styles.
• Performative Activities: Use presentations to foster public speaking and teamwork skills.
• Connected Learning: Link lessons to real-world scenarios for practical, engaging, and less AI-dependent learning.

How to Detect OpenAI's ChatGPT Output

The CTE encourages instructors and learners to responsibly adopt and use AI tools. Below are helpful resources, guides, and tools from recommended sources, including other universities’ teaching and learning centers. We are sharing these as a reference and guide, not an endorsement of these resources or tools.

• Chat GPT is Here! – 5 Alternative Ways To Assess Your Class!
• The Power of Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI 
• Classroom Strategies to Promote Responsible Use of A.I. - University of North Carolina Charlotte 
• Authentic Assessments - University of Illinois Chicago
• Creating authentic assessments - University of Michigan
• Authentic Assessment - Indiana University Bloomington

• Educating in a World of Artificial Intelligence
• How Teaching Skills Can Complement the Use of AI in Education With Michael Feldstein
• How a Creative Approach to AI Can Enrich Both Teaching and Learning with Reed Dickson
• How AI Can Support or Prevent True Learning With Justin Bruno

The CTE encourages instructors and learners to responsibly adopt and use AI tools. Below are helpful resources, guides, and tools from recommended sources, including other universities’ teaching and learning centers. We are sharing these as a reference and guide, not an endorsement of these resources or tools.

• Guidance on AI Detection and Why We’re Disabling Turnitin’s AI Detector | Brightspace Support | Vanderbilt
• Artificial Intelligence in Teaching | Center for Teaching and Learning | Northern Illinois University (niu.edu)
• Artificial Intelligence Teaching Guide | Teaching Commons (Stanford.edu)
• WMUx is Your Resource for AI Information | Center of Teaching and Learning | Western Michigan University
• An Instructor Guide to Easing into Generative AI | Center for Teaching Excellence | the University of Kansas
• Quarterly Bulletin: Considerations and Recommendations for AI Use in Higher Education | D2L

• Consensus: A search engine that uses AI to find insights in research papers.
• Elicit: Finds relevant papers without perfect keyword match, summarize takeaways from the paper specific to your question, and extract key information from the papers.
• Microsoft 365 Copilot: An artificial intelligence assistant feature for Microsoft 365 applications and services.
• Gradescope: An AI tool enabling students to evaluate each other's work with machine learning, saving grading time for teachers.
• Nuance Dragon Voice Recognition: A speech recognition software that transcribes up to 160 words per minute, useful for students with writing difficulties and teachers for lesson planning.
• Curipod: An educational platform for creating presentation drafts based on a chosen theme.
• SlidesGPT: An AI tool that creates comprehensive presentations and generates speaker notes for each slide.
• Conker: An AI quiz builder that integrates with learning management systems, enabling on-demand quiz creation.
• StepWise Math: An educational tool that helps students understand and solve math problems, ranging from basic arithmetic to complex concepts.
• ChatGPT: An AI chatbot that assists with tasks like programming, homework, and creating various types of content.
• Google Bard: A chatbot developed by Google. It can generate text, translate languages, write creative content, and answer questions
• Gemini: An AI tool connected to Google that quickly creates and launches Large Language Models without coding.
• ChatBot: An AI tool that generates AI Large Language Model frameworks quickly and easily without coding, using your resources.
• MagicSchool: An AI tool empowers educators to save time, personalize learning, and transform classrooms.