How Can You Help Your Students Use Generative AI Tools Responsibly and Ethically?

This news article describes some of the many ways college students are already using generative AI tools.

The AI Education Project (aiEDU) website is devoted to making sure that all students are ready to live, work, and thrive in a world where AI is everywhere, by providing instructors with interdisciplinary activities and projects.

This first onboarding activity, completed in less than 45 minutes, is designed to gauge students’ experiences with generative AI. The activity asks students to reflect on the ways they use AI and whether those have been positive or negative experiences.

This activity can provide your students with more human-based considerations like fairness, accountability, and ethics.

In this activity, students gain a better understanding of how generative AI works by learning to create effective and varied generative AI prompts.

This 30-minute activity provides instructors with several ethical concerns surrounding generative AI with links to guide students.

The authors discuss the need to balance technological advancements and academic integrity and the various ways student learning can be enhanced by AI tools. Additionally, they discuss the impact of AI on assessment practices, highlighting the needed shift in the perspective on the output students should be expected to create.