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Listen to Learn: Podcasts about AI

Cultivating Critical AI Literacies by Teaching in Higher Ed
Maha Bali, a professor of practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at The American University in Cairo (AUC), discusses cultivating critical AI literacies on episode 545 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. She has a PhD in education from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Upskilling in AI by Tea for Teaching
With so many demands on faculty time, it can be difficult to prioritize professional development in the area of AI. In this episode, Marc Watkins joins is to discuss a program that incentivizes faculty development in the AI space. Marc is an Academic Innovation Fellow at the University of Mississippi, where he helped found and currently directs the AI Institute for Teachers.
Embrace AI as a Performance Tool by Changing Higher Ed
In this episode of the Changing Higher Ed podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Bruce Dahlgren, chief executive officer at Anthology and a trustee at Stetson University, discuss the benefits, address ethical concerns, and highlight how AI enhances institutional performance. They emphasize the importance of starting with a clear AI policy framework and building trust through pilots and communication to harness the power of this game-changing technology successfully. The conversation provides valuable recommendations for higher education leaders looking to integrate AI effectively into their institutions.
Teaching Writing in the Age of AI by Women Talkin' 'Bout AI
n this episode, Drs. Jessica and Kimberly welcome their guest, Dr. Emily Dux Speltz, an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and Technology at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide. Dr. Dux Speltz shares her experiences developing one of the first AI and Writing courses in the U.S., discusses her research on process-focused writing feedback, and explores how generative AI is reshaping writing instruction and assessment.

Tips for Integrating AI into your Course

Not sure if or how to incorporate AI into your course? Here are a few tips for creating assignments, learning outcomes, and/or assessments that integrate AI in ways that are fair and meaningful to students.

Navigate your options: First, review this flow chart from the Center of Teaching and Learning (CTL) to help you navigate the use of GenAI in your courses.

Clearly define the learning outcomes for your AI assignments. Be specific about the knowledge and skills you want students to acquire. Transparency in these outcomes provides a roadmap for students. Take a look at the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL's) guidance on Generative AI in your courses.

Model the appropriate way to use AI apps with you students, including how AI can and can't be used for an assignment. Also discuss what information the tool is pulling from. For example, ChatGPT pulls from sources across the entire internet. Whereas some tools are rooted in more academic information. AI research tools like SciSpace, Consensus, and ResearchRabbit pull from open access academic databases. This does not mean these tools cannot also make mistakes, but they are more likely to have high quality and scholarly information behind their outputs.

Syllabus Statements: Make sure you communicate to your students how they can and cannot use AI.

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) has provided sample syllabus statements.
Lance Eaton at College Unbound has helped compile a crowdsourced online repository of syllabus statements written by instructors at other institutions of higher education.

Revisiting Bloom: If you use Bloom's Taxonomy to generate vocabulary for creating assignments and assessing student learning, take a look at an adapted Bloom's Taxonomy pyramid developed by Oregon State that accounts for GenAI.

Bloom's Taxonomy Revisited for AI

Instructor Tip: AI isn't just for students. It can help you streamline tasks like making quizzes, writing rubrics, and defining clear assignment instructions. There are specialized AI tools for instructors to help with these tasks, like Khanmigo from Khan Academy, which can use information you input or pull from the Khan Academy library to create content. Note: This tool needs your expertise to be excellent. Be sure to double-check content for accuracy and make edits as needed!

Think strategically. The thoughtful integration of a diverse array of AI tools into the curriculum involves strategic decision-making. Instructors should select tools purposefully, aligning with the goal of empowering students to innovate, deepen their understanding, and generate creative ideas. Consider the assignment’s complexity and desired outcomes when integrating AI tools, ensuring they enhance the learning experience.

Use a rubric: The TCEA has created a useful rubric for assessing the right AI tools for a class or assignment.

AI is Everywhere. As AI becomes more ubiquitous -- embedded in digital assistants, search engines, messaging apps, online shopping, research databases, productivity software, and more -- adapt and plan for your plans accordingly.

► See the Tool Comparison section of this guide for more resources.

Career Connections: It is important that students learn now about how AI can navigate their future and solve real world problems. The classroom offers an excellent space to add structure the exploration of its uses, both positive and negative.

Transform AI assignments into creative playgrounds. By encouraging experimentation and play, students can uncover unexpected applications of AI, fostering curiosity and innovation beyond initial expectations.

Example assignment:

Ask students to research how AI will change their major. How will jobs change for students with degrees in certain majors? This could be an excellent opportunity for faculty to discuss their experiences as career academics and how AI has changed their work.
For more assignment ideas, explore 101 Creative Ideas to use in AI Education, including #54 "It’s about the journey, not the destination" and #60 "Enhancing employability with AI-driven authentic assessments."

According to AI expert Ethan Mollick, PhD, it takes around 10 hours of use to become proficient with GenAI or other innovative AI apps. Before employing in assignments, or prohibiting use, make sure you put in the time to understand the tool as a user. You can also learn more about how these tools work and their impact from the books below.

Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick
ISBN: 9780593716717
Publication Date: 2024-04-02
From Wharton professor Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI. Something new entered our world in November 2022 -- the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of creative, innovative work that only humans could do previously. Mollick immediately understood what ChatGPT meant: after millions of years on our own, humans had developed a kind of co-intelligence that could augment, or even replace, human thinking. Through his writing, speaking, and teaching, Mollick has become one of the most prominent and provocative explainers of AI, focusing on the practical aspects of how these new tools for thought can transform our world. In Co-Intelligence, Mollick urges us to engage with AI as co-worker, co-teacher, and coach. He assesses its impact on business and education, using dozens of real-time examples of AI in action. Co-Intelligence shows what it means to think and work together with smart machines, and why it's imperative that we master that skill. Mollick challenges us to utilize AI's enormous power without losing our identity, to learn from it without being misled, and to harness its gifts to create a better human future.
Teaching with AI by José Antonio Bowen; C. Edward Watson
ISBN: 9781421449227
Publication Date: 2024-04-30
This book explores how AI is revolutionizing the future of learning and how educators can adapt to this new era of human thinking. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way we learn, work, and think. Its integration into classrooms and workplaces is already underway, impacting and challenging ideas about creativity, authorship, and education. In this practical guide, teachers will discover how to harness and manage AI as a powerful teaching tool. José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson present emerging and powerful research on the seismic changes AI is already creating in schools and the workplace, providing insights into what AI can accomplish in the classroom and beyond. By learning how to use new AI tools and resources, educators will gain the confidence to navigate the challenges and seize the opportunities presented by AI. From interactive learning techniques to advanced assignment and assessment strategies, this comprehensive guide offers practical suggestions for integrating AI effectively into teaching and learning environments. Bowen and Watson tackle crucial questions related to academic integrity, cheating, and other emerging issues. In the age of AI, critical thinking skills, information literacy, and a liberal arts education are more important than ever. As AI continues to reshape the nature of work and human thinking, educators can equip students with the skills they need to thrive in a rapidly evolving world. This book serves as a compass, guiding educators through the uncharted territory of AI-powered education and the future of teaching and learning.
AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan; Sayash Kapoor
ISBN: 9780691249148
Publication Date: 2025-09-23
Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You're not alone. AI is everywhere--and few things are surrounded by so much hype, misinformation, and misunderstanding. In AI Snake Oil, computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor cut through the confusion to give you an essential understanding of how AI works and why it often doesn't, where it might be useful or harmful, and when you should suspect that companies are using AI hype to sell AI snake oil--products that don't work, and probably never will. While acknowledging the potential of some AI, such as ChatGPT, AI Snake Oil uncovers rampant misleading claims about the capabilities of AI and describes the serious harms AI is already causing in how it's being built, marketed, and used in areas such as education, medicine, hiring, banking, insurance, and criminal justice. The book explains the crucial differences between types of AI, why organizations are falling for AI snake oil, why AI can't fix social media, why AI isn't an existential risk, and why we should be far more worried about what people will do with AI than about anything AI will do on its own. The book also warns of the dangers of a world where AI continues to be controlled by largely unaccountable big tech companies. By revealing AI's limits and real risks, AI Snake Oil will help you make better decisions about whether and how to use AI at work and home.

AI Detection

Many instructors opt to use AI Detection tools for student assignments, and many colleges and universities (including UGA) provide instructors with some sort of AI or plagiarism checking options. However, there is an ongoing discussion in higher education about their weaknesses and risks. For example:

Detectors can yield both false negatives and false positives, which can result in tagging a student paper as written by AI when it wasn't.
If your native language isn't English, these tools will often tag your writing as written by AI (Liang et al., 2023).
And while many studies advocate for the use of text-matching software like Turnitin (Hayden et al., 2021), some researchers have argued that these tools erode trust with students (Williams, 2007).

Academic Integrity expert Sarah Elaine Eaton, PhD, who does not advocate for their use, has recommended a set of ethical principles for instructors who decide to use AI Detection tools.

Ethical AI Detection Principles

In their ChatGPT Guidance for Instructors, the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) discusses the limitations of these detectors.

Here is a list of AI detection tools:

Additional discussions on the efficacy and ethics of AI Detection tools.:

Professors Cautious of Tools to Detect AI-Generated Writing - Inside Higher Ed

How Hard Can It Be? Testing the Dependability of AI Detection Tools - Times Higher Education

Nobody wins in a academic integrity arms race - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Making ChatGPT detectors part of our education system prioritizes surveillance over trust - George Veletsianos, professor of education at Royal Roads University

What to do if you are falsely accused of cheating with AI - Dr. Lydon Walker, YouTube

Vanderbilt University's Guidance on AI Detection and Why We’re Disabling Turnitin’s AI Detector

AI Detectors Don’t Work. Here’s What to Do Instead - MIT Sloan Teaching & Learning Technologies

AI Literacy

Listen to Learn: Podcasts about AI

Tips for Integrating AI into your Course

Video: How to Use AI in Teaching & Research for Higher Ed

AI Detection