Scenario 1 | Teaching
You are teaching a “College Success” class to 45 first-year undergraduate students. To help familiarize them with the campus, you are explaining the structure of universities. Specifically, you are emphasizing that universities organize disciplines into schools and colleges and that there are departments within them. Concurrently, you also want students to begin using AI for academic purposes. Therefore, you divide your students into 15 groups of 3 students and assign them to profile a department from within a school or college. For the profile, the groups must explain (1) where in the university’s schools and colleges the program is located, (2) short biographies of the program faculty, (3) accomplishments of the department and its faculty, (4) majors housed within that program, and (5) career tracks of students who graduate with a degree from that program. For the final profile, it should be a 7-slide presentation, and students are required to use AI for locating information for the presentation and for either creating the whole presentation or its multimedia elements.
Scenario 1 | Teaching
In this scenario, please share how you would require students to document their use of AI. Specifically, include the types of documentation you would require and the format for that documentation. For the types, some key considerations are:
- Do students need to document locating information using AI?
- If students create a piece of multimedia for their presentation, how should they document it?
- When documenting their use of AI, how and where should it be placed? Under the content generated by AI, in a reference section, or in another way?
Scenario 2 | Scholarly Purposes
You identified a grant opportunity aligned with your current research interests, and you have decided to submit an application. As part of the application, you are required to submit a 3-5 page review of literature that summarizes major and emerging findings and themes related to your topic. While you have knowledge about the seminal articles in your field, you need support to locate emerging findings. To help locate articles with those findings, you decided to conduct searches using the University’s library database of articles, Google Scholar, and Elicit.org. In addition, as you are drafting your review of literature, you asked ChatGPT to provide you feedback about your writing and accordingly revise it. In addition, you used iThenticate to further verify the quality of the writing. When you read its revisions, you are impressed and want to adopt some of the revisions into your own writing. However, you would like to disclose your use of AI both for identifying articles and its use in developing revisions that improved your review. Finally, as you were completing your review of literature, a term you were not familiar with appeared in the literature. In response, you asked ChatGPT to define the term and provide you with specific examples of it. After reading the information and vetting its credibility, you decide that the information is accurate and want to directly quote the definition and reference the examples in your review.
Scenario 2 | Scholarly Purposes
In this scenario, please share how you would cite this use of AI in your review literature. To guide your thinking, consider the following:
- Do you need to cite AI for locating articles for the review of literature? If so, how and where will you cite your use of AI?
- If you chose to use AI’s revisions for your work, do you need to cite them? If so, how will you do that?
- For the definition you plan to quote and examples you want to reference, how will you cite the quote and examples?
Responses to Teaching (click to expand):
Do students need to document locating information using AI?
Yes, they should document how they used AI to research career tracks in their program. In that documentation, they should include the name of the tool and the search terms they used to prompt it.
If students create a piece of multimedia for their presentation, how should they document it?
They should fill out the appropriate boxes related to “media creation” in the usage table located in the Student Generative AI Usage Guidance, and that information should include the name of the tool they used to create the presentation, a description of if and how they edited it, and a link to the original work generated by the AI.
When documenting their use of AI, how and where should it be placed? Under the content generated by AI, in a reference section, or in another way?
They should add the documentation described in the previous prompt to the last slide of the presentation and fill out the appropriate categories.
Responses to Scholarly Purposes (click to expand):
Do you need to cite AI for locating articles for the review of literature? If so, how and where will you cite your use of AI?
Like using a search engine for locating articles or asking colleagues for their recommendations, you would not need to cite your use of AI for locating articles. However, disclosing that you used an AI tool as part of your procedures for locating articles is encouraged. The underlying reason is that your use of AI in this way was not to generate content. Rather, it was to locate information.
If you chose to use AI’s revisions for your work, do you need to cite them? If so, how will you do that?
While AI is not an author of the work, it would be appropriate to acknowledge the contributions it made in the revising and editing process.
For the definition you plan to quote and examples you want to reference, how will you cite the quote and examples?
If you adopt the definition written by ChatGPT, it would be appropriate to cite ChatGPT as the source.
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