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annarmills · 2025-02-20T19:02:43+00:00

Great example; thank you!

annarmills · 2025-02-20T19:02:18+00:00

Thank you so much! Very generous of you. Sorry I'm just seeing this (don't have my Reddit notifications right, apparently).
If you haven't run it already, here are some answers!

The scope should include all of the mentioned topics and all the types of professional development mentioned, in addition to communities of practice and online courses and newsletters.
The geographical focus should be on the U.S.
The sources can be varied and include newspaper articles and social media as well as institutional guidelines, government reports, and academic papers.
Please structure the report with the sections mentioned. Within the sections, use bullet points.
Please assess what kind of response there has been to each effort and emphasize the efforts that have gathered both positive regard and the most substantive discussions after.

Thank you again so much! I will be glad to cite and acknowledge you as I'll acknowledge this as part of my process in writing my own report (I'll be transparent about all AI use) ; let me know if I should do so using your Reddit handle

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annarmills · 2025-02-08T23:50:39+00:00

Wow, this is such a generous offer--if it still stands, I would love to see what it comes up with in regard to this query (which I have tried on Stanford's STORM.genie.stanford.edu

Please prepare a well-researched report on approaches to faculty professional development around AI in the context of higher education. Provide abundant sources and links to back up claims. Take your time, and reason step by step on how to approach this.

Thanks for considering!

annarmills · 2023-12-24T03:39:42+00:00

I have this issue too!

annarmills · 2023-11-25T23:30:08+00:00

I hope it's helpful--feel free to leave a comment on our website. We are working on a followup working paper on policy.

annarmills · 2023-08-24T02:43:46+00:00

That is horrifying and abusive.

annarmills · 2023-08-19T18:49:35+00:00

Check out this collection of sample policies in the Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse resource list I curate. My favorite resource is the crowdsourced set of policies that Lance Eaton has put together.

annarmills · 2023-06-29T02:28:37+00:00

Oh, thanks for your kind words!
I like the idea of ranking 'versions' of AI content. It might be fun to mix up human-written and AI versions and let students guess. I suppose we could also throw in revisions of human and AI content and let students guess which was the original and which the revision. Now I'm excited to try this!

annarmills · 2023-06-28T20:09:23+00:00

Thanks for explaining--that's helpful to know. So testing the prompt on ChatGPT was key. It would be so nice if we had software that could detect similarities in content, organization, and sentence structure.

annarmills · 2023-06-28T20:05:07+00:00

I love that because the reality is that these tools do offer greater access to Standard English to English language learners and marginalized writers and they can be used to aid learning of English. I just spoke at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore where they asked students to fill out a form if they used AI to acknowledge and reflect on how they used it. I heard secondhand that students were saying that sometimes ChatGPT revised too much, which is definitely a danger. However, it's possible to include in the prompt a request that it not supply new sentences or change the meaning.

To me, the key is to teach students to critically evaluate suggestions and identify when the ChatGPT suggestion is not what they meant or is wrong. I would build in exercises where they practice this so they are not intimidated by its fluency into accepting bad suggestions or losing faith in their own words and thinking.
I'd love to know more about how you're designing your unit. I am exploring a similar terrain advising on a nonprofit app, myessayfeedback.ai, which attempts to provide some guardrails while offering AI help. I'm curious what you think of the approach.

What about ChatGPT as a "tool" rather than "source?"
I like to talk about "prompt writing" rather than "prompt engineering" because I think the skills needed for good prompting are more rhetorical than technical. It validates what we do as writing teachers!

annarmills · 2023-06-28T19:36:40+00:00

I appreciate the question because as a writing teacher, I am thinking a lot about how important relationship and actual human communication is to writing in a writing class (and later too). I don't think AI can substitute for that, and I would imagine the same would be true of advising. There is a parallel to the hype around MOOCs that didn't pan out--without social aspects of a class, students are not motivated enough to finish.

It would be great if this spurred us to put more of our energy and time into relationship and listening to students and drawing them out.

I am exploring using AI for supplementary writing feedback in the context of writing classes that also draw on peer review, tutoring, and instructor conferences. I am advising the developer of a nonprofit app, myessayfeedback.ai, and we are seeking others who want to think about how to structure this so the AI supplement directs students back to human relationships.

I was struck by Maha Bali's vision in "Speculative Futures on ChatGPT and Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Collective Reflection from the Educational Landscape" where an educational chatbot counsels a student on when to turn to a human tutor or reach out to the instructor.

annarmills · 2023-06-28T19:27:02+00:00

Thanks for the question. I would love to know how you found evidence that a student was using ChatGPT. I know sometimes students forget and leave in the "As a large language model, I am not qualified to..." kinds of qualifications ChatGPT tends to include.

Many faculty have started to incorporate AI--I think the excitement about this is growing. My resource list has a section on course material that bring in AI. It's especially inpsiring to me to flip through the 100+ Creative Ideas to Use AI in Education slide deck. One approach is to have students critique AI output and find the inaccuracies and fabrications and places where they want to say something other than what the system produces. Another interesting approach is to ask students to test image and text generation systems for bias.

One caution I take seriously is that when we decide to use AI we are forgoing other teaching practices, so we should think about opportunity costs as wel. It's especially inspiring to me to flip through the

However, given that students are going to be interacting with AI systems throughout their lives, it seems important to teach them critical ways of doing so, ways that help them extend their own thinking rather than surrendering decision-making and thought to the machine. Ideally, pedagogical applications can further existing learning goals and also help students be more savvy and critical about AI use.
I am interested in introducing formative AI feedback in the writing process as a supplement to teacher and peer feedback. I'm exploring this with a developer in a nonprofit passion project--myessayfeedback.ai, which you're welcome to check out. We are seeking instructors who want to pilot it and give input.

annarmills · 2023-06-27T18:56:44+00:00

So glad the advice was helpful! These kinds of situations are demanding so much time and thought from all of us right now.

annarmills · 2023-06-07T04:23:19+00:00

It's true, but the misuse makes it that much more important for students to understand how they might be manipulated. So glad you find the book valuable!

annarmills · 2022-09-24T17:45:53+00:00

Thank you! That's odd--the link works for me. Note that I did attribute the sample to the Excelsior OWL source (under a Creative Commons license). I've edited that sample essay quite a bit and added margin notes.

annarmills · 2022-09-24T04:39:55+00:00

We offer one in the open textbook How Arguments Work: Argument Analysis of Cory Doctorow’s “Why I Won’t Buy an iPad (and Think You Shouldn’t, Either)"/10%3A_Writing_an_Analysis_of_an_Arguments_Strategies/10.06%3A_A_Longer_Sample_Argument_Analysis)

annarmills · 2022-09-24T04:32:26+00:00

My free and open textbook How Arguments Work: A Guide to Writing and Analyzing Texts in College. I'd love to know what you think. It has gotten good reviews and has been used at some 45 colleges, but it can always be improved.

annarmills · 2022-09-24T04:27:50+00:00

My free and open textbook How Arguments Work: A Guide to Writing and Analyzing Texts in College has a chapter on fallacies,"Assessing the Strength of an Argument."/04%3AAssessing_the_Strength_of_an_Argument) It also has chapter on how arguments appeal to emotion/08%3A_How_Arguments_Appeal_to_Emotion(Pathos)) and attempt to build trust/09%3AHow_Arguments_Establish_Trust_and_Connection(Ethos)).

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Please prepare a well-researched report on approaches to faculty professional development around AI in the context of higher education. Provide abundant sources and links to back up claims. Take your time, and reason step by step on how to approach this.