Video from the April 19 Faculty Forum on Generative AI and Writing
Dear Faculty Colleagues,
Thanks to everyone who attended our Faculty Forum on Friday, April 19th. Are we all increasingly becoming AI experts? Or are we all ready to throw up our hands in a fit of overwhelm and discouragement? Well I think the recording of our recent conversation will provide you some encouraging pathways to navigating the joys and challenges of teaching college students in our AI era.
Enjoy this short preview before you review the full recording.
Please plan to join us every first and third Friday of the month at noon (via Zoom) for forums like this one.
Dr. Andy Jones
Academic Associate Director, Academic Technology Services
Editor in Chief, The Wheel
University of California, Davis
Access the Zoom chat from the event.
Selected resources / links shared during the event
- AI & Feedback Research slides: “A Human Centered Approach to AI: AI Feedback Combined with Peer Review,” by Lisa Sperber, Marit MacArthur, Sophia Minnillo, Nick Stillman, and Carl Whithaus
- Students will no longer need to login to use ChatGPT - 4/2/2024 - “ChatGPT no longer requires an account to use it. Here's how OpenAI plans to handle the mass adoption.” [mashable.com] by Cecily Mauran. Includes instructions for the login-free version on how to disallow OpenAI from using your data to train the model.
- “Comparing the Quality of Human and ChatGPT Feedback on Students’ Writing” by Jacob Steiss, Tamara Tate, Steve Graham, Jazmin Cruz, Michael Hebert, Jiali Wang, Youngsun Moon, Waverly Tseng, and Mark Warschauer.
- Interesting substack that thinks about nested/scaffolded uses of GenAI in writing tasks — https://abramanders.substack.com/
- Microsoft Copilot (AI) for UC Davis affiliates: https://iet.ucdavis.edu/copilot-product-brief
- AI For Research: Uses and Misuses - slides: “Using AI for Research: Finding Literature, Testing Clinical Questions, and Data Extraction” by Erik Fausak and Brendan Johnston.
- You might appreciate the argument in this book about why we ascribe “intelligence” to AI tools, and why we should not. Here is a review of it: “How Robots Learned to Write So Well”
- Students can upload articles for extraction. This is what they say about “privacy” on papers that are uploaded for extraction https://support.elicit.com/en/articles/723521
- Recently out: CEE’s UC Davis GenAI Student Survey - how Ss use and perceive GenAI at UCD: https://cee.ucdavis.edu/GenAISurvey
- From Lillian Jones: A grad group I am a part of and I recently hosted a live Consensus demo. We have a recording of it, if you are interested in checking it out. The co-founder, Eric Olson, talked candidly about a lot of the details behind the design and their future ideas.
- Martin Hilbert gave a talk about GenAI / AI in the IET AI Speaker Series
- Good source for helping students navigate the difficulty of reading scholarly articles, non-STEM: “Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources” by Karen Rosenberg
- This is a great source on reading scientific articles which Lisa Sperber has been sharing for a while! “How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists” by Jennifer Raff
- From Marit MacArthur: I make that argument here: “AI, Expertise and the Convergence of Writing and Coding” and in a longer piece with more insight, I hope, that isn’t out yet.
- ChatGPT / AI Resources: https://bit.ly/chatgpt_resources
- Philosopher Richard Menary’s thoughts on writing as thinking and transformative influence of writing on cognitive abilities: “Writing as thinking”
- “Acknowledging the use of generative artificial intelligence” from Monash
- Conference on College Composition and Communication (4 C’s): 2024 4 C’s Conference
- Michael Ladisch - UC Davis expert on copyright
- The section of Margaret Merrill’s ChatGPT list with 4 articles about citing GenAI
- “Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning” by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson
- Summary of what MLA advises for citation: “MLA Citations for Content Generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools”
- On Draftback: “This Chrome Extension Helps Students Prove AI Didn't Write Their Essays” by Daniel Trock
- Here are two working papers from MLA-CCCC
- Librarian Matt Conner mentioned AI is being used to summarize content for our Redwood Scholars