[Melissa Steinhardt]

@brynbrown Bryn, all the tools I mentioned have beginner-friendly interfaces, but they may not be the best fit for upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses. NotebookLM could be a fun place to start. What’s great about it is that you can upload your own sources, which then become the inputs the AI uses. From there, you can create custom videos, podcasts, quizzes, and other materials based on prompts and sources you provide. The content can be as simple or as complex as you want. It’s a great, low-pressure way to start experimenting with GenAI integration.

@edluna and I have shared ways we like to use AI as a starting point and then refine the results with a more human touch. Starting out slowly is probably the best way to avoid becoming overly confident about AI integration without a deep appreciation of the risks and limitations—just as the study @gailclarke shared earlier this week pointed out.
~Melissa?

Laurie Pendleton and Bryn Brown

[Gail Clarke]

Hey Melissa — I love how you’re highlighting the importance of a thoughtful approach to AI. I’m including a New York Times piece in tomorrow’s Weekly Round-Up that looks at Cal State’s new partnerships with Amazon and OpenAI, and the questions they raise about where this trend might be heading in higher ed.

Melissa Steinhardt

[Melissa Steinhardt]

Gail,

I read the NYT’s article. I’m off to figure out how my institution can get a bite (byte) of that $4 billion Microsoft investment.

~Melissa?

Kelly Williamson and Wendy Bratina

[Wendy Bratina]

This may be simple, but the tool I’m using right now is ChatGPT to help me curate case scenarios in my classes to be used for different scenarios focused on skills. For instance, I used it to show models of a client interview and a service plan for my human services students.

Mary Kate Terrell, Melissa Steinhardt and Laurie Pendleton

[Laurie Pendleton]

That’s such a great use of AI! It is one of those tasks that can take hours to create on your own, but using AI allows you to create multiple scenarios so that each group or even student can have a different one.

Wendy Bratina and Melissa Steinhardt

[Melissa Steinhardt]

Nothing wrong with simplicity, Wendy, I use ChatGPT and Gemini to develop case studies and role-playing scenarios for my leadership students. Facilitating these activities is a much better use of our time than developing 25 different scenarios.

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Wendy Bratina