FTTC 2024: Focus on Teaching and Technology Conference

AI Prompt Writing is a skill that many faculty and students now seek to master. This hands-on session is aimed at faculty who have begun to explore AI prompt writing and wish to progress to a higher level.

Learn about the steps and challenges involved in piloting an open access repository for assignments that challenge students to use AI in intellectually rigorous ways. Whether you’re new to generative AI or a seasoned ChatGPT user, this session will give you the tools to facilitate peer-to-peer sharing of faculty-generated and reviewed teaching activities at your institution. Ask questions and discuss potential difficulties with an interdisciplinary team of presenters, including a graduate instructor and fellow at WashU’s CTL, an award-winning professor and director of the CTL, and an experienced academic librarian and expert in digital publishing and repository services.

The development of course expectations, often in the form of syllabus statements, has been one of the most common responses of faculty to the use of generative AI by students; we have set expectations for the students we educate. For faculty and staff in higher education, however, it remains a “wild west” with the use of generative AI, but formulating expectations for these stakeholders is essential to ensure their use of this technology is feasible. This presentation will introduce and discuss a framework for determining and setting expectations for higher education faculty and staff.

This session will introduce new process-oriented tools to cultivate academic integrity and higher-order thinking skills in students. It will also discuss how students can be allowed to use AI in a safeguarded manner. Participants can expect to learn from the co-presenter's experiences and depart with numerous new ideas to implement in their classes.