[matthew.ingram]

Greetings, Mary,

Thank you, Laurie, for including me in this dialogue! I love that you are bringing in AI with intentional teaching moves geared toward critical thinking and evaluating its accuracy against the material they’ve learned.

A couple of things come to mind, and excuse the longer post share:

One thing we will start thinking about more carefully with AI is how this connects to the cognitive tasks we want students to do and how they are being transformed. I will attach something for Oregon State University that inspires me when thinking about AI use; it has a taxonomy that has AI built into it and distinguishes AI capabilities versus distinctive human skills. Thinking through this can help plan an AI implementation.

If I understand your assignment correctly, that distinctively human element is the process of prompt writing, critiquing the AI response, and cross-checking information.

One thing I’ve spent time doing in my speechmaking classes is talking about what makes “effective prompts” in the first place. I thought my students would be highly skilled at this already; it turns out they need the ethical guidance we can offer on this. Jose Bowen is one of my favorite educational leaders/scholars who has great ideas on teaching prompt creating: https://teachingnaked.com/handouts/

For feedback and grading, depending on the end goal, you might focus on things like:

-their comparison between the results is the similarities and differences they notice in AI’s interpretation of prompts.

– their ideas on how well the AI-generated response aligns with what they are learning in the course and materials.

And, even if it’s early in the course, think of it this way: How can I use AI tools to help work towards that mastery? The comparisons and analysis of AI response to what they are learning, or even, perhaps, afterward, having them see their sources to support the AI ideas? My key to what I am seeing in your assignment is helping learners build critical mindfulness.

I hope that helps! Check out the attached Bloom’s taxonomy; it’s helpful!

Matthew

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