Artificial Intelligence

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From the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning

• Difficult, but Fun: Reclaiming Joyful Formation in the Age of AI by Wonchul Shin
• Is This the End of the Take-Home Essay? by Anna Lännström
• To AI or Not To AI by Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder
• Being Human in an AI World by Samantha Miller 
• Artificial Intelligence, Theology, and Teaching: Phillip Butler - The Wabash Center's Dialogue On Teaching podcast

Innovative Teaching Resources

• Recommendations for Teaching & Learning with AI from the Center for Effective Teaching and Learning, California State University-LA
• Creating AI-Proof Assignments: A Guide for University Professors in Social Sciences and Humanities | LinkedIn
• Incorporate materials in assignments that are not accessible to AI platforms 
• Engage Case studies
• Collaborative projects
• Skills-based assessments (practica, hands-on applications) that require more than just writing
• In-class assignments with tech prohibited
• Flipped instruction
• Inquiry-based learning
• Create an objective rubric for writing assignments that focus on higher level skills not easily replicated by AI platforms

• Collect in-class writing samples from students as a benchmark of their writing style.
• Ask students to draft written assignments in Microsoft 365 so that version histories are saved and can be shared with you if needed.
• Ask students to track changes in Microsoft Word and annotate any use of AI tools on the draft.
• Input course assignments into AI platforms and note the output generated to use as a comparative to student work.
• Adopt process-oriented assignments where the instructor actively monitors the development of the final work, e.g. brainstorming, note taking, outline, drafts, etc.
• View the editing time on Word documents. Keep in mind that a student may have copied and pasted a final draft onto a new document. So, if the editing time is minimal, ask to see a prior draft to ensure proper authorship.

Designated AI use: Beyond the acceptable use as stated in MTSO's Policy on the Use of AI, students may use AI tools and platforms [in this course / on this assignment] in the following ways: [clearly explain how AI may be used].

When used, students must disclose the use of AI in the following manner [as a footnote/in an Acknowledgment section]: “The author acknowledges the use of [name and version of AI tool (publisher, url)] for [select one of the permitted AI uses listed above].”

Example: “The author acknowledges the use of ChatGPT-4.0 (Open AI, https://chatgpt.com) for brainstorming ideas to engage parishioners in a Bible study.”

Students must include a copy of their input prompts as well as a copy of the AI-generated output in an appendix to their submitted work.

Please see the How to Cite AI guide for additional methods of documenting AI use.