Generative AI in the Classroom (HC)

Recommended strategies involve leaning on active learning, transparent teaching, and UDL strategies that support inclusive engagement and success:

• Clearly communicate whether and how AI tools can be used in each course.
• Clearly communicate the reasons behind your policy choices and how they relate course learning goals. 
• Incorporate metacognitive elements into assignments (i.e., asking students to reflect on their learning, discussions, research processes, etc.)
• Use authentic assessments and/or have students demonstrate learning in multiple ways.
• Invite students to actively and critically engage with AI generation tools or the issues they raise.  

Sources generally caution against:

• Redesigning assignments to take advantage of current AI limitations (e.g., requiring citations, using archival sources and articles behind paywalls). AI technologies and economics evolve so rapidly that windows of success will be limited.  
• Relying on "AI-detection" tools. Not all purveyors are reputable and researchers have found considerable risk of false positives, especially when analyzing work by novice writers or writers for whom English is a second language.  

• How Do We Maintain Academic Integrity in the Chat GPT Era?

  Tricia Bertram Gallant, in Liberal Education, Winter 2024.

• Restricting ChatGPT Use in Classes with Writing Assignments: Policies, Syllabus Statements, and Recommendations

  Office of Undergraduate Education at the University of Minnesota

• Generative AI and Its Implications for Your Teaching

  UPenn Center for Teaching and Learning

• AI Guidance

  Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning

• GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers

  W. Liang, et al., Patterns (4:7) 10 July 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2023.100779

• Inside the Quest to Detect (and Tame) ChatGPT

  EdSurge Podcasts, 21 March 2023, hosted by Jeffrey R. Young, with guests Edward Tian (creator of GPTZero); Eric Wang (VP of AI at Turnitin), Alfred Guy (dir. undergrad. writing, Yale), and Sal Khan (Khan Academy).

• Can Using a Grammar Checker Set Off AI-Detection Software?

  Jeffrey R. Young, EdSurge, 4 April 2024.

*Taken from "Generative AI in Higher Education" Research Guide at Swarthmore

These articles suggest assignments and best practices for incorporating the study of generative AI tools and output into courses.   

• Incorporating Chat GPT into Classes with Writing Assignments: Policies, Syllabus Statements, and Recommendations

  Office of Undergraduate Education at the University of Minnesota

• TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies

  T. Laquintano, C. Schnitzler, and A. Vee (eds.) The WAC Clearinghouse. 2023.

• Incorporating AI in Teaching: Examples from Yale Instructors

  Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning at Yale University

• Using AI to Implement Effective Teaching Strategies in Classrooms: Five Strategies, Including Prompts

  Mollick, Ethan R. and Lilach Mollick, 17 March 2023, SSRN.

• AI Prompts for Teaching

  C.J. Alby, Google doc, n.d.

*Taken from "Generative AI in Higher Education" Research Guide at Swarthmore

Sample Syllabus Statements

Sample Classroom Policies