You’re heard some buzz about generative AI (genAI), and you’ve learned to mitigate some of the concerns. Students will be tempted to use generative AI on assignments that are too high stakes or too low stakes, so our goal as instructors should be to be transparent and demonstrate to our students why the assessments we… Read more »
Instructional Technology
Quick Tip: Visit your classroom before Day 1
Reduce first day jitters for yourself by visiting your assigned classroom in the next couple of weeks. Log into the instructor station, practice projecting on the screen, put on and test the microphone, adjust volume if you plan to show video clips, check the lighting and furniture arrangements in the space, practice circulating around the… Read more »
Generative AI in the Classroom: Prompt Engineering and Tutoring (AI Primer Part 4)
So now you’re using generative AI regularly: you have some ideas for assignment designs and you’re incorporating generative AI into your classroom. For example, you would like your students to learn about cavitation. This all started for me when I watched a YouTube video online. In the video, a scientist hits the top of a… Read more »
Using Social Annotation to Fact-Check Generative AI
As has now been widely discussed, generative AI is a productivity tool that can be used in various ways in our classrooms with a wide range of success and failure. Generative AI programs can be quite effective at various repetitive tasks or work such as summarizing, but can also “hallucinate”—that is, provide incorrect or misleading… Read more »
Generative AI in the Classroom: A Primer (Part 1)
So you’ve heard some buzz about generative AI: maybe you’re worried about student academic misconduct in your course, or maybe you are wondering how you would ever get started learning a new technology with all the demands you already have on your time. Never fear! There are easy ways to get started if you have… Read more »
Canvas New Quizzes Overview and How Spaced Practice is Supported
New Quizzes is Canvas’ latest quiz engine that offers instructors four new question types and several features and improvements that instructors have requested for years. New question types and examples Categorization: Place the following organisms into five kingdoms based on their characteristics: Amoeba, Mushroom, Fern, E. coli, Dog The instructor would provide the category names… Read more »