AI in the Classroom

Below are recommendations for people or publications to follow for more information on the evolution of generative AI and how it relates to education.

Ethan Mollick is a professor at the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania and regularly publishes articles on both the benefits and risks of AI for education on his Substack titled One Useful Thing. Two articles of particular note are:

• Assigning AI: Seven Ways of Using AI in Class - This article provides concrete ways to bring AI into the classroom, with a discussion of prompt engineering and sample prompts you can use immediately.
• Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button - This article discusses the traditional idea of writing being a useful indicator of time spent on a task, and how AI is changing that idea as it can outsource basic writing tasks.

Bryan Alexander is a senior scholar at Georgetown University and maintains a Wordpress site about a variety of topics related to future trends in education. Of particular note is his article Experimenting with using ChatGPT as a simulation application which provides a framework for using generative AI in a simulation to further your thoughts or test your knowledge of a subject. The article includes several excellent prompts to get you started immediately.

Several institutions have published comprehensive resource guides on generative AI. Below are examples of these guides that contain a wide variety of sources and ideas for using generative AI.

• University of Michigan - Generative Artificial Intelligence
• University of Michigan - Sweetland Center for Writing: Guides to Teaching Writing with Gen AI
• University of Western Michigan - WMUx: AI @ WMU
• Butler University - Generative AI in Education