CTL Workshop: No Robot Left Behind: AI and Our Fall Classes
Are you unsure how to integrate AI in your classroom? Concerned about managing AI usage among your students? Join us for the one-hour online seminar, Wednesday, August 28, from 12:15-1:15 EDT. This session is specifically tailored for liberal arts divisions in Art, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences. We’ll begin with discussing AI with your students, providing you with tools to establish clear and effective AI policies. Following that, we’ll break into groups by academic division, allowing for in-depth engagement with AI strategies and insights relevant to your field. Discover how faculty in various disciplines are already using AI tools to enhance teaching. Share your insights, pose questions, and prepare yourself with the knowledge to create a balanced, fair, and academically rigorous environment for the upcoming semester.
Please note, due to the division-specific breakouts, we will not be able to record this session for later viewing. We will provide a webpage link with resources to all registrants. Sign up HERE for this online event (a Zoom link will be sent the day before).
Teaching and Learning
Helping Students to Not Snub Each Other in Class (Jeremy T. Murphy, Inside Higher Ed, August 15, 2024): Five ways to encourage students to shift their focus from the instructor to one another in whole class discussions.
Exam Wrappers with Resources Enhance Metacognition (Cindy Nebel, Learning Scientists, August 15, 2024): Exam wrappers, in general, ask students to reflect on their performance and strategies that they used or could use differently the next time.
Promoting Inclusivity with the Syllabus (Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed, August 14, 2024): A study from Worcester Polytechnic Institute found students believe their instructors are more inclusive if they include specific features, such as their pronouns and materials from diverse scholars.
Pick One Thing (Tony’s Teaching Tips, August 14, 2024): Pick one big idea related to the teaching of the course and start with that.
Approaching the Academic Year With Apprehension (Gary Gilbert, Inside Higher Ed, August 13, 2024): After divisive protests roiled campuses last spring, how can this fall be better?
The Crisis of Disclosure on Our Campuses (Deborah J. Cohan, Inside Higher Ed, August 13, 2024): As students reveal upsetting personal information to us, we must help them transform it in ways that become meaningful.
Multimedia Magic: Integrating IIIF [International Image Interoperability Framework] into Your Teaching Toolkit (Bonni Stachowiak, Teaching in Higher Ed, August 15, 2024): Christopher Gilman and Adelmar Ramirez describe how to use IIIF in your teaching to bring the world’s image collections to students – 45-min. podcast. The article also cites a host of useful resources:
Gain Richer Access to the World’s Image and Audio/Visual Files with IIIF
Get Started: Access IIIF End-User Resources
Guides to Finding IIIF Collections and Resources
Get Started Guide: University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge Digital Collection
Get Started Guide: Harvard University Digital Collections
Harvard University Digital Collections
Get Started Guide: UCLA Digital Collection
UCLA Library Digital Collections
30,000 Getty Museum Images Published Online as IIIF
Awesome International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF)
Sample IIIF Content (e.g. Stanford and Harvard)
An ‘Alles is Muziek | ‘Music is Everything’ IIIF Website Bonni Found While Compiling the Show Notes
Growth Mindset
The Impact of a Growth Mindset (Mindsetworks.com): Part of a website generated from Dr. Carol S. Dweck’s research on how a person’s mindset sets the stage for either performance goals or learning goals.
All Things AI
Using AI Tools to Develop Critical-Thinking Skills (Beth McMurtrie, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 15, 2024): Focuses on Meghan McInnis-Dominguez, an associate professor of Spanish at the University of Delaware, who viewed AI as a way to both mitigate cheating and bolster declining enrollments in language courses.
Why We Should Normalize Open Disclosure of AI Use (Marc Watkins, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 14, 2024): It’s time we reclaim faculty-student trust through clear advocacy – not opaque surveillance.
Ace Your Semester: Harnessing AI for a Head Start (Laura McLaughlin and Joanne Ricevuto, Faculty Focus, August 14, 2024): As generative AI evolves rapidly, it is essential to explore and discuss its impact on teaching and learning for both faculty and students.
College Writing Centers Worry AI Could Replace Them (Maggie Hicks, Ed Surge, August 12, 2024): Those who run the centers argue that they could be a hub for teaching AI literacy.
Syllabi Policies for AI Generative Tools: A Google Doc curated by Lance Eaton, with contributions on various syllabi policies that colleagues have adopted.
Creative and Critical Engagement with AI in Education (AI Pedagogy Project, Harvard University): A collection of resources for educators curious about how AI affects their students and their syllabi.
Back to School
Here’s a collection of “back-to-school” articles from the Chronicle of Higher Education:
How to Create a Syllabus, by Kevin Gannon
How to Teach a Good First Day of Class, by James M. Lang
How to Make Your Teaching More Engaging, by Sarah Rose Cavanagh
How to Hold a Better Class Discussion, by Jay Howard
How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive, by Viji Sathy and Kelly A. Hogan
How to Be a Better Online Teacher, by Flower Darby
Academic Freedom
Indiana Argues Professors Lack First Amendment Rights in Public Classrooms (Ryan Quinn, Inside Higher Ed, August 14, 2024): Defending a new law requiring “intellectual diversity” from professors, the Indiana attorney general echoes Florida and asserts that “curriculum of a public university is government speech.”
DEI on Campus
Legislation Isn’t All that Negatively Impacts DEI Practitioners (Nelia Viveiros, M. Gabriela Torres, and Elizabeth Hutchison, Inside Higher Ed, August 16, 2024): Many experience incivility, bullying, belittling and a disregard for their views and feelings on their own campuses.
Leading Republican Wants Sweeping Investigation of Colleges’ DEI Spending (Katherine Knott, Inside Higher Ed, August 14, 2024): Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy has requested that the Education Department’s Office of Inspector General investigate how colleges and universities use federal money to support DEI programs and policies.
Repercussions from 2023-24 Protests
Anticipating Fall Protests, Colleges Adopt a Range of Approaches (Johanna Alonso, Inside Higher Ed, August 16, 2024): The summer has been relatively free of campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war. But institutions continue to grapple with conduct violations and policy changes following the spring encampments.
Campus Protests Are Coming Back. Students and Administrators Are Digging In (Kate Hidalgo Bellows, August 15, 2024): In July, the Young Democratic Socialists of America passed a resolution encouraging a national student strike over the Israel-Hamas war.
A Year Ago, Women Were the Majority Among Ivy League Presidents. Now Most of Them Have Quit (Eric Kelderman, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 15, 2024): While these leaders represent a handful of highly selective colleges, the vitriol they faced over pro-Palestinian protests stands out.
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik Resigns in Wake of Gaza Protests (Cecilia Nowell, Guardian, August 14, 2024): Criticized for handling of student demonstrations, Shafik says “this period has taken a considerable toll on my family.” [See, as well, Why Did Shafik Step Down Now? (Josh Moody, Inside Higher Ed, August 16, 2024)]
19 Students from Claremont Colleges Arrested During Campus Protest to Get Community Service (Mercedes Cannon-Tran, The Sun, August 13, 2024): Students will have to do 16 hours of community service.
Extra Credit Reading
Beyond Disciplinary Silos (Steven Mintz, Inside Higher Ed, August 14, 2024): Toward a more holistic, integrated and decompartmentalized approach to lower-division undergraduate education.
The AAUP Abandons Academic Freedom (Cary Nelson, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 13, 2024): Its decision to allow academic boycotts betrays its values. The AAUP’s statement on academic boycotts can be read here.
U.S. Confidence in Higher Education Now Closely Divided (Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup, July 8, 2024): Nearly as many U.S. adults have little or no confidence as have high confidence.
Future Imperfect
New College of Florida Tosses Hundreds of Library Books, Empties Gender Diversity Library (Steven Walker, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, August 15, 2024): The books, many on LGBTQ and religious topics, are headed to a landfill. They were removed from the college’s library and its now-defunct Gender and Diversity Center without giving students a chance to buy them, as was done in past discards.
On the Bookshelf
Anthony Abraham Jack, Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price (Princeton, 2024): Details how Harvard students of different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds weathered the pandemic and what university leaders can learn from what they went through. Q&A with author in Inside Higher Ed (Sara Weissman, August 14).
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