AI and ChatGPT: For Faculty

Do:

Acknowledge your expectations and what you expect students to do/not do with AI.  

Include your expectations on your syllabus and within assignments.

Teach students that there is a time and place for AI tools.  

" Find new ways to help students learn to read and write well and to help them make the connection between doing so and their own growth."

Explain how to cite AI (see the tab on this guide for more information)

Experiment and keep an open mind, many students quickly discover the shortcomings of AI

Center the importance of writing and learning in the students' lives.  Critical thinking is crucial and can't be generated in a Chat session.

FAQ | GPTZero has some good ideas of how to alter/create new assignments that incorporate the tool with critical thinking approaches:

• Ask students to write about personal experiences and how they relate to the text, or reflect on their learning experience in your class.
• Ask students to critique the default answer given by ChatGPT to your question.
• Require that students cite real, primary sources of information to back up their specific claims, or ask them to write about recent events.
• Assess students based on a live discussion with their peers, and use peer assessment tools (such as the one provided by our partner, Peerceptiv).
• Ask students to complete their assignments in class or in an interactive way, and shift lectures to be take-home.

University of Calgary's Engage & Explain approach is a good way to connect with your students' abilities to navigate using AI.  

MIT's Technology Review has an article here that describes how educators and students are coming to terms with AI as a basic classroom tool, much like Google.