Engaging with AI
How will we shape the future of AI at Boston College?
At CDIL, we acknowledge generative AI is a technology that will impact teaching practices across Boston College.
We believe thoughtful engagement with AI is the best way to shape its role in teaching and learning, but we also assume this will happen on a diverse and evolving spectrum, from skepticism to full embrace.
On the spectrum between from banning AI entirely to welcoming it with open arms, we imagine a spacious middle ground where most of us are working to find ways to help students engage with AI in deliberate ways that support their learning.
You might even find yourself identifying with multiple points on the spectrum at different times, depending on the course you’re teaching or the specific assessments you are designing with your students.
Wherever you fall on the spectrum, we hope you’ll join the conversation with others at Boston College and find a form of engagement that fits with your goals and our approach to teaching.
Resources
The resources in this section are meant to provide some starting points for an ongoing conversation about our relationship to GenAI as it continues to evolve and we continue to learn.
Please contact us if you have feedback, questions, or resources you’d like to share.
Visit the Boston College website dedicated to AI resources and literacy for the BC community at www.bc.edu/genai
Learning Together
The resources in this section are meant to provide some starting points for an ongoing conversation about our relationship to GenAI as it continues to evolve and we continue to learn.
A community of practice for faculty experimenting with custom AI assistants in their teaching.
A three-session workshop series meant to help you cook up a custom AI assistant to explore practical uses of AI in your context.
A three-session workshop series meant to help you explore how a content-grounded AI platform like NotebookLM might be useful for your teaching or research.
The Student AI Advisors programs are designed to give students a key role in shaping Boston College’s distinct approach to AI through collaborative design, peer research, and intentional reflection.
This community of practice will bring faculty together to explore the intersection of thoughtful design and technology in designing for humanistic learning.
BC Voices on AI and Education
What we’re learning from members of the Boston College community as they explore Generative AI in teaching and learning.
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Teaching Legal Research in the Age of AI
For some legal scholars, AI can be a useful reflection tool.
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Chatbots for Connection: Exploring Health and Human Flourishing with GenAI
GenAI proves itself a useful tool for facilitating communication around health and well-being.
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When The Ground Shifts: AI, Expertise, and Moral Disorientation
It’s not just that AI tools are changing how we work. For some faculty, they’re quietly changing who we think we are.
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Bringing Students into the AI Conversation
What would it feel like to bring students more directly into the conversation about AI in education?
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Exploring GenAI for Enhancing Student Feedback
What if AI tools could help with one of teaching’s biggest pain points: providing timely, meaningful feedback to students?
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Integrating Ethical Practice and AI Technology in Nursing Education
What does preparing students to be ethical nurses equipped to enter the workforce with the skills they need to use new technologies to promote excellent patient care look like?
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Helping Chatbots Find Their Purpose
AI doesn’t know what its purpose is without our help. Teachers have crucial role to play in deciding whether AI has role to place in their classrooms.
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Opening Up About AI: A Conversation with Students
When I finally talked to my students about AI, it was a relief that we could figure things out together
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Learning with Course Chatbots: A Pilot
Designing custom chatbots is becoming easier. How can we start experimenting with them to support student learning?
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Guideposts for Learning with AI
How a business communications professor Rita Owens developed a visual strategy for communicating clear guidelines for AI – By Noël Ingram
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Responding to AI with Authentic Assignments in Finance
How a finance professor’s engagement with ChatGPT created more authentic assessments–and more trust
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Reflections after a Semester with ChatGPT
What is it like to teach at the university level in the age of AI, and what does it tell us about the future of higher education?
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Alien Brains & Metacognition: Using AI to Facilitate Human Learning
How can having students engage with a non-human brain help them understand their own thinking better?
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Solving World Peace with ChatGPT
What relevance might ChatGPT have in a course on Peace Studies? After recent conversations with colleagues and faculty about the ChatGPT and teaching, I decided to find out for myself.
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Using ChatGPT in the Higher Ed Classroom
The moment I realized AI had come for me was when I put midterm exam questions ChatGPT.
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WGBH Interview about ChatGPT and Education
John Fitzgibbon, Associate Director for Digital Learning Innovation at CDIL, was interviewed by WGBH to share his thoughts about the effect of ChatGPT and other AI tools on eduction.