AI Resources and Tools

Added 9.6.2024. This article offers three areas in which AI can be leveraged to help make courses more accessible and inclusive, including examples from real educators.

8.29.2024. A helpful look at some of the various ways that other colleges, universities, and professors are dealing with AI this fall. A nice reminder that we aren't alone, with some additional ideas on ways that folks are using AI to help provide a different viewpoint for their students to learn and contemplate how NOT to use AI blindly.

8.26.2024. Good news for all you creative writers out there! GPT-4 was consistently outperformed by a human in this study, especially when creating in Spanish.

8.22.2024. "A professor at Florida International University tasked her students with devising an ethical guide to using AI in their classes—and found them to be stricter than she would have been."

6.12.2024. Focusing in on the freely available AI Tutor Pro, this article illustrates the possibilities that AI tutors present to bridge the gap between group learning and individual tutoring.

7.17.2024. This article provides a viewpoint on how higher education might embrace AI in order to make it a "catalyst rather than a replacement for deep learning."

From the article: "Claude 3.5 Sonnet's artifacts feature is a game-changer for educators, enabling the creation of GenAI-generated content into lesson plans and classroom activities."

This opinion piece calls for a re-assessment of assessment in the wake of GenAI.

This working paper takes an in-depth look at what tasks fall within the capabilities of AI. Termed "the jagged frontier," the study reveals that there is not clear line to show what AI will be good or bad at. It takes experimentation.

This article provides an interesting glimpse into the world of training large language models, and the mysteries of deep learning that allow it to defy tectbook statistics.

While this article is a little outdated (ie. from December 2023 and it is April 2024), the information remains useful in helping to choose which AI tools you access.