Student Guide to Generative AI

Upcoming

[If you know of upcoming workshops or training at Baylor, email Ellen Filgo, Ellen_Filgo@baylor.edu, and I'll list them here. Thanks!]

See this event calendar for more AI-related events on campus.

• Fall 2024 ATL Ed Research Journal Clubs

Potential journal club topic: AI in STEM

• Thursday August 15, 2024 Teaching with AI Playground - Zoom

Experiment with how generative AI can enhance your course design, lesson plans, feedback, and assignments while also helping students develop AI literacy. This session is virtual (Zoom link will be sent to registrants).

Previous (many have recordings available)

• February 7, 2023 ATL Teaching Matters: Artificial Intelligence — What does ChatGPT mean for our teaching?

The recent launch of a high-performing, intuitive, and accessible AI chatbot has many instructors wondering how students and instructors alike may use this tool for good and ill, with consequences for everything from essay writing to multiple-choice exams. Grab lunch at the SUB or nearby Penland dining hall, or bring your own lunch, and join us for an open-ended discussion on the instructional implications of these developments.

• Tuesday, February 27, 2024 ATL SET: Artificial Intelligence: What do students really think?

With the advent of ChatGPT, artificial Intelligence has steamrolled into higher education. Instructor reactions have ranged from avoidance to prohibition to embrace. In addition to learning objectives, curriculum concerns, student abilities, and AI’s capabilities, pedagogical decisions and policies regarding AI should be also consider how students actually perceive and use AI. This session reports on a recent survey of Baylor undergraduates investigating their perceptions, use, and experiences with AI in coursework. Participants will learn under what conditions students view AI use as cheating, their reasons for using AI, their expectations of their instructors, and more.

• Tuesday, March 19, 2024 AI Faculty Forum with Dr. Christopher W. Stubbs

The Office of the Provost, in conjunction with the School of Engineering and Computer Science, is delighted to welcome Dr. Christopher W. Stubbs, dean of science at Harvard University, to the second "AI Faculty Forum." The title of the conversation is "Harnessing Generative AI for Learning." 

To learn more, try our new tutorials about ChatGPT.  They contain short videos (3 min or less), and quiz questions for self-review of what you learned. To complete all five should take 40-60 minutes maximum. To access the tutorials, you will need to self-enroll in the AI Literacy (self-paced, asynchronous) course on Canvas. Topics include:

1. What is generative AI?
2. The technology behind ChatGPT
3. How does ChatGPT aim to prevent harmful use?
4. Using ChatGPT effectively
5. AI & Ethics

SELF-ENROLL HERE: https://baylor.instructure.com/enroll/APM47F

ChatGPT can be a useful tool when it comes to deciding what your topic should be for a research paper. We've created this guide for use with students.

• Generate Topics for Your Research Paper with ChatGPT - a guide for students