Lucas Center Blog

AI for Teaching and Learning

August 19, 2024  / Bill Reynolds 

There is so much information available these days about AI for teaching and learning that it can be difficult to know how to find credible, useful sources. As we at the Lucas Center receive information from colleagues in higher ed we’ve been keeping track of some of the better websites, and in this post we share a few. Most of these are specifically related to AI in teaching, and they offer resources and suggestions for writing prompts, acclimating students to AI, and other teaching-specific ideas and strategies. We also recognize, however, that faculty are discovering uses for AI that are making them more efficient teachers AND scholars, and we encourage you to share your favorite tips, sites, and resources with us so that we can post them in a future blog.

• Stanford University offers an excellent Artificial Intelligence Teaching Guide in open access format. Within this guide are a series of workshop kits that are Creative Commons licensed, which enables anyone to use them with attribution for non-commercial purposes.
• The Stanford Graduate School of Education has a site called Classroom-Ready Resources about AI for Teaching (CRAFT). This is a developing collection of resources that include lesson plans and guides for teaching about various aspects of AI. For example, the lesson titled “How can AI help us become better writers? provides a guide for helping students evaluate text that has been AI-generated.
• The Macalester College Library has a page on “AI Literacy and Critical Thinking.”  I especially like that it has a section on “Sample Class Activities,” which also links to a crowd-sourced resource called Creative Ideas for Using AI in Education.
• For an excellent list of resources for educators about using generative AI in their classrooms, visit the Southern Illinois University Library website - https://libguides.lib.siu.edu/ai-for-teachers. One of the nice features of this site is that it lists dozens of AI tools and provides a brief description of what each does.
• Finally, The American Association of Colleges and Universities and Elon University have launched an artificial intelligence how-to guide for students. It is available in a free download that faculty might use with their students to guide students’ use of AI.

As mentioned before, resources related to teaching and learning with AI are growing at a pace that is difficult to keep up with. With the list above we have tried to provide credible and useful sources of information that offer concrete strategies for AI-novice and experienced faculty alike. Please share with us your experiences and any additional resources you believe your colleagues would appreciate for inclusion in an upcoming post. Email lucascenter@fgcu.edu.