IN-PERSON Prague Research & Teaching Conference

Abstract

Almost 90 percent of college students claim to use AI in their studies, and more than 54 percent say they use AI at least on a weekly basis. At the same time, the 2024 Digital Education Council Global AI survey found 58 percent of students feel they do not have sufficient AI knowledge and skills. Do we teach our students how to use AI or do we ignore it? What is an acceptable level of AI assistance and what crosses the line into cheating? How can AI be used ethically in class and in our disciplines? We decided to embrace AI and create assignments that allowed students to investigate the capabilities of AI in Spanish, biology and communication courses. The intent: provide students with a critical thinking assignment across the liberal arts disciplines that will allow them to determine the worth of Artificial Intelligence in their courses and careers. Each of us created assignments specific to our disciplines that challenged students to compare AI output with their own work in hopes of pushing them to learn the value, capabilities and ethics of using AI. We will share our findings during the session and hope participants will walk away from our presentation inspired to reconceptualize their own curriculum to explore the potential of AI.