Ai : AI in the Classroom

👩‍🏫 Faculty Recommendations for AI Use

📝 Use for developing lesson plans (activities, exams, etc)

• Use in developing assessments
• Use in developing laboratory exercises
• Use in developing hands-on skills

📚 Develop study materials for students

• Example: Use in developing study guides with key terms/concepts

🧾 Support grading student work

• Example: Use for preliminary review of an essay to make sure you catch everything that merits mention

📖 Creating scenarios/case studies for activities/exams/labs

• Example: Create a case study for how a business could spread the costs of increased import taxes to minimize the loss of sales.

🗣️ Creating practice conversations for debates, interpersonal dialogues

• Example: See what possible counterpoints are to your position on a subject.

🎓 Supplemental instruction/tutoring

• Example: Offering one-on-one tutoring based on your course materials that is available to students 24/7

💡 Avoid requiring students to purchase AI tools — use free or institutionally supported options to ensure equitable access.

📎 Promote student access to guidance, tools, and resources that help them use AI responsibly in their academic and career pursuits.

📌 Clearly Define Acceptable Use

•  Establish clear guidelines on how students may and may not use AI tools (e.g., writing support, research assistance, idea generation).
• Include examples and boundaries in your syllabus or course policy.

🛠️ Integrate AI as a Teaching Tool

•  Use AI to demonstrate concepts, generate discussion questions, or provide feedback on drafts.
•  Encourage students to compare AI-generated content with scholarly sources.

🧠 Encourage Critical Thinking

•  Design assignments that require students to reflect on or critique AI-generated responses.
•  Teach students to question the accuracy and biases of AI outputs.

📈 Support Skill Development

• Incorporate AI literacy into assignments, helping students build digital and analytical skills.
• Include activities on prompt writing, evaluating AI responses, and using tools like ChatGPT responsibly.

📣 Stay Informed and Adapt

• Regularly explore emerging AI tools and their implications in your discipline.
• Participate in faculty development related to AI integration and digital ethics.

🎓 Recommendations for Students and Ai Use

Specific Outcomes for Student Learning

📄 Improved Writing Quality

💪 Increased Confidence

📘 Enhanced Learning

🤝 Learning Partner:

Example: Develop study materials such as flash cards for self

🔍 Evaluating/checking/reviewing own work:

 Example: using Grammarly to check spelling and grammar

 Example: Uploading the assignment and rubric and asking AI to verify you covered everything in the rubric

🧠 Creating scenarios/case studies for practice and deeper understanding:

 Example: Asking AI to create a case study applying the psychology concept of negative reinforcement to enhance the likelihood of my eating healthy, saving money, and working out.

Example: Asking AI to create a case study with the intent of identifying evidence of tax fraud concepts in their accounting class.

💬 Enhance Communication Skills:

 Holding conversations - Example: talk to AI tool and it will talk back to you.

 Explore subjects, perspectives and enhance conversational skills - Example: Ask for unfamiliar perspectives, such as the British view of the Revolutionary War.

 Improve verbal communication skills - Example: [add example]

 Using AI to improve English writing skills - Example: Ask for feedback on a written essay

🧰 Editing/refine prompts to obtain relevant research and resources:

 Example: Increasingly refined prompts to create a narrative describing quantum tunneling for an 8-year-old.

➕ Using AI to improve math skills:

Example: Providing math problems to practice solving integrals or a particular mathematical approach with which you struggle.