The purpose of this guide: Provides links to readings, video, audio, and infographics to encourage directed learning about generative AI in the context of higher ed. The guide was published on July 26, 2023 and will accumulate based on feedback from faculty and other readers at Lehigh. If you'd like to see something added to this page you can edit the page yourself or make a comment.
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Sample syllabus statements
LU Syllabus Template, Lehigh's Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, updated with a section on Generative AI for Fall 2023.
Boris Steipe et al., The Sentient Syllabus Project: Charting a Course for the Academy in an Era of Synthesized Thought, founded December 2022. The project's website, print materials, and Substack includes guides for understanding AI issues, sample text for a syllabus, and course activities involving AI.
"Classroom Policies for AI Generative Tools," a crowdsourced Google Doc organized by Lance Eaton, Director of Digital Pedagogy at College Unbound, Providence, RI.
Tracy Mendolia-Moore, Manager of 3D Educational Technology Innovations at the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, Western University of Health Sciences, "University Policies on Generative AI." A collection of university policies and websites.
Proposed Harvard AI Code of Conduct, from Harvard and FU Berlin's metaLAB. A collaborative effort from Harvard College Students and Teaching Fellows in Creativity (Gen Ed 1067) (Spring 2023), David Atherton, Sarah Newman, and Kathleen Esfahany.
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Ideas for class activities
Case Study PDFs from The Princeton Dialogues on AI and Ethics. "A set of fictional case studies that are designed to prompt reflection and discussion about issues at the intersection of AI and Ethics."the intersection of AI and Ethics."
"Exploring AI Pedagogy: A Community Collection of Teaching Reflections." An initiative of the MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on AI and Writing.
A People’s Guide to AI, Mimi Onuoha and Diana Nucera (aka Mother Cyborg). A zine published by Allied Media Projects in October 2018. With worksheets and questions to get a classroom thinking and talking with one another.
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Tim Laquintano, Carly Schnitzler, and Annette Vee, “Introduction to teaching with text generation technologies,” in Annette Vee, Tim Laquinto, and Carly Schnitzler, eds., TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies (The WAC Clearinghouse) (2023). Scroll all the way to bottom of the landing page for groupings of student activities for "AI Literacy," "Creative Explorations," "Ethical Considerations," "Professional Writing," "Rhetorical Engagements," and "Continuing Experiments."
Civics of Technology Curriculum. Including "Critical Questions about Technology," "Technology Education Intro Activities," "Unfolding a Smartphone," "Mapping the Media Education Terrain," "Technoethical Integration," and "Critical Digital Citizenship."
"101 Creative Ideas to Use AI in Education," edited by Chrissi Nerantzi, Sandra Abegglen, Marianna Karatsiori, and Antonio Martinez-Arboleda. An open access book.
Learn with AI toolkit, a project of the University of Maine's Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning and UMaine's New Media major.
Boris Steipe et al., The Sentient Syllabus Project: Charting a Course for the Academy in an Era of Synthesized Thought, founded December 2022. The project's website includes course activities involving AI.
Have students complete a learning course in Datacamp. Examples include "Introduction to ChatGPT," "Understanding Artificial Intelligence," "Large Language Models (LLMs) Concepts," and "Generative AI Concepts." You have access to courses in Datacamp as a Lehigh employee. From the Datacamp landing page, you DO NOT need to "Create Your Free Account," even if this is the first time that you've accessed the platform. Instead, go straight to "Sign in" at the top right and type in your full Lehigh email email address. The system will bounce you to Lehigh's SSO and you'll be ready to learn!
Use an infographic to prompt classroom conversation. Examples from the European Network for Academic Integrity, an EDUCAUSE Review on "Artificial Intelligence: Where Are We Now?", and the 2023 AI Index Report from Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University can be found in this Lehigh Confluence guide.
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Multimedia
Dylan Doyle-Burke and Jessie J. Smith, Radical AI podcast, aired from March 2020–August 2023.
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Marieke Guy, coverage of a student "AI Assessment Hackathon" in June 2023, organized by a team of academic staff from the Faculty of Medical Sciences and the Institute of Education (IOE), University College London, London.
Ali Darvishi, et. al, "Impact of AI assistance on student agency," Computers & Education 210 (March 2024): 1-18.
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Academic integrity and citational practice
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Rhiannon Williams, "AI-text detection tools are really easy to fool," MIT Technology Review, published July 7, 2023.Turnitin has an AI-generated text detector among its features. It can be added as a tool to your Lehigh Course Site (see: "/wiki/spaces/LKB/pages/26695890"). really easy to fool," MIT Technology Review, published July 7, 2023.
Lehigh LibGuide on How to Cite ChatGPT & Similar AI Tools.
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Lorena O'Neil, "These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI," Rolling Stone, published August 12, 2023. Featuring Timnit Gebru, Rumman Chowdhury, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini.
Brief histories of AI
Jessica Riskin, "Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence," The Public Domain Review, published May 4, 2016.
Labor
Billy Perrigo, "Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic," Time, January 18, 2023.
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Harry H. Jiang, et al., "AI Art and its Impact on Artists," In Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA (August 2023): 363–374. 23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA (August 2023): 363–374.
Michael M. Grynbaum and Ryan Mac, "The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work," The New York Times, published December 27, 2023. (Article viewable with full online access to The New York Times courtesy of the Lehigh Libraries.) The New York Times Company vs. Microsoft Corporation.
Environmental impacts
Kate Crawford, The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021). Chapter 1, "Earth."
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Miguel Cardona, et al., “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning,” U.S. Department of Education, 2023.
Tomas Foltynek, Sonja Bjelobaba, and Irene Glendinning, et al., "ENAI Recommendations on the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence in Education," International Journal for Educational Integrity 19, no. 12 (2023): 1-4.
Jenay Robert and Nicole Muscanell, "2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Generative AI," EDUCAUSE, published September 2023.
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Video courses related to generative AI on LinkedIn Learning (here are Lehigh-specific instructions for how to activate your LinkedIn Learning account). Introductory courses include: "What Is Generative AI?" and "Introduction to Prompt Engineering for Generative AI."
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Non-exhaustive catalog of Lehigh-specific programming
Winter/Spring 2024
February: "From Critical AI and AI Literacy to Design Justice: An Interdisciplinary Look at 'Generative AI." Visiting speaker Lauren Goodlad, Professor of English, Rutgers University. Including coverage in The Brown & White.
Spring Kickoff of Lehigh's AI Community of Practice. January 11th, 2024, part of the CITL Winter Workshop.
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October: "AI Inside and Out: What to think and do with AI tools in teaching and education system," College of Education and the Lehigh University School Study Council, featuring Drs. William Gaudelli and Juan Zheng.
October: Artificial Intelligence Community of Practice, sponsored by the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) at Lehigh. Launched 10/30/2023.
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June: "Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)," this Lehigh Confluence guide is a starting point for learning more about generative AI, ChatGPT, and answering some FAQs. Published 6/16/23.
June: "Resources for directed learning about AI." Lehigh Confluence guide. Published 6/26/23.
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March: Recording of "The Implications of Generative AI for Teaching and Learning at Lehigh," a conversation led by Dr. Greg Skutches, Director of Writing Across the Curriculum. Event on March 24, 2023., 2023. Panelists were Greg Reihman, Jeremy Littau, and three TRAC Fellows.
January: "Call for Generative AI Ideas" and "A Letter from the Provost: What to do about ChatGPT?," message from Dr. Nathan Urban on January 24, 2023.
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Eric P.S. Baumer's Google Scholar page and personal website. Dr. Baumer's Lehigh profile page.
Public GitHub repository for materials from "Algorithms and Social Justice," a class taught by Profs. Larry Snyder (ISE) and Suzanne Edwards (English, WGSS) at Lehigh University. This repo is from the fall semester, 2022. Dr. Snyder's Lehigh profile page. Dr. Edwards' Lehigh profile page.
Greg Surovcik, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Decision and Technology Analytics, designed the underlying AI-based algorithms for Spark Moments and brought the product to market.
Brian Chen's publication page. Dr. Chen's Lehigh profile page.
Jeremy Littau's Substack, including "Who's Afraid of ChatGPT?," published December 14, 2022. Dr. Littau's Lehigh profile page.
Yu Yang, Working on a project involving AI-powered traffic signs.
Florencia San Martín, Interviewed by CNN Chile on the intersection between AI and art, November 3, 2023.
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AI in higher ed
Catherine A. Gao, et al., "Comparing scientific abstracts generated by ChatGPT to real abstracts with detectors and blinded human reviewers," npj Digital Medicine 6 no. 75: (2023).
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Distributed AI Research Institute. "We are an interdisciplinary and globally distributed AI research institute rooted in the belief that AI is not inevitable, its harms are preventable, and when its production and deployment include diverse perspectives and deliberate processes it can be beneficial. Our research reflects our lived experiences and centers our communities."
Data & Society. "Data & Society studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI. Through empirical research and active engagement, our work illuminates the values and decisions that drive these systems — and shows why they must be grounded in equity and human dignity.
AIxDESIGN. "Reaching beyond big tech’s algorithmic imaginaries to ones that align with ideologies of agency & care, we do so through community-based research, developing design tools, hosting programs & workshops, running experiments, deconstructing critical discourse, and publishing our learning in the open."
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Books and chapters on AI
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Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (New York: Crown, 2016).
Kate Crawford, The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021).
John Brockman, ed., Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI (New York: Penguin Books, 2019).
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Taylor Arnold and Lauren Tilton, Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2023).
Ben Vickers and K Allado-McDowell, eds., Atlas of Anomalous AI (London: Ignota, 2020).
Joy Buolamwini, Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines (New York: Random House, 2023).
Michael Wooldridge, A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going (New York: Macmillan Publishers, 2021).
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E-books from the Harvard Business Review Press (full-text available via Lehigh Libraries)
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Duke University Learning Innovation, "AI and Teaching at Duke."
Tracie M. Addy and TingTing Kang, "Who Benefits and Who is Excluded? Equity, Access & Generative Artificial Intelligence," 6th Annual LVAIC Information Literacy Symposium, June 15, 2023.
Tim Laquintano and Lisa Wilde, "Brains over Bots: Crafting AI-Savvy Assignments for Academic Integrity and Innovative Learning," 6th Annual LVAIC Information Literacy Symposium, June 15, 2023.
Micheael Coley, "Guidance on AI Detection and Why We're Disabling Turnitin's AI Detector," Vanderbilt University, August 16, 2023.