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Example Basic Needs Syllabus Statement

Any student in this class who experiences difficulty affording groceries or accessing sufficient food to eat every day, or who lacks a safe and stable place to live, and believes this may affect their performance in our course, is urged to contact an academic advisor for support. You may also contact the MSU Student Food Bank (http://foodbank.msu.edu) for help getting access to healthy foods. Furthermore, if you are experiencing any other challenges with basic needs, you may also notify me, and I will work to connect you with any further resources that I have access to.

The above is an example of a basic needs statement that you can include in your syllabus, from an actual course, using language developed from an MSU Basic Needs & Advising Workshop. The CTLI is working on a template Basic Needs statement for our syllabus resources playlist https://iteach.msu.edu/pathways/364/playlist and I'll update this post once it's available.

Tried a new discussion with my 200-level course on the first day! Brief explanation about what generative AI is and asked - "Is it better to be a robot or a human? Why?" After lots of responses about emotional connection, empathy, and outlets for our personal experiences, I asked, "How do you plan to bring your human-ness to our class?" They talked about wanting to hear others' personal experiences, perspectives, and ideas about solving social problems. They want to show empathy for their peers and they want to receive it. Part of my syllabus AI policy reads, "The use of AI robs us all of the opportunity to learn from our human experiences and from each other, to play with our creative freedoms, to problem-solve, and to contribute our ideas in authentic ways. In a nutshell, college is a place for learning and critical thinking. AI simply cannot do that learning for us. Use of AI (like ChatGPT) to complete any class assignment is considered academic misconduct in this class." I used the discussion as a way for them to do this rationalizing for themselves.

Assessment in my class includes weekly quizzes (which could pretty easily be answered with AI; just meant to be a concept check) and semester-long project-based skills development assignments.

AI Commons Bulletin 12/18/2024
Human-curated news about generative AI for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

🍔 Try This: Use AI to generate scenario examples

If you often use examples and scenarios in your lectures, AI can refresh them or generate new ones quickly.

BUT: Characters in gen AI scenarios can display a bias toward western culture. To mitigate, add this to your prompt “Ensure that the name used is gender inclusive and representative of a diverse cultural/ethnic background” (Mirowsky, 2024)

Learn More: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.jchemed.4c00844/suppl_file/ed4c00844_si_001.pdf

🧲 Google Releases New “Learn About” AI Tool

The tool “helps you explore academic topics & concepts.” The layout resembles a textbook, includes additional audio and video sources, and further topics are even organized by terms that Bloom’s uses under comprehension: Understand, Explain, Describe.

BUT: Learning is not saved. Once you close the page, the session is gone.

Learn More: https://learning.google.com/experiments/learn-about

📗 Syllabus Statements

Students want to know what is or is not allowed in using AI for a course:
1. No AI
2. AI Planning
3. AI Collaboration
4. Full AI
5. AI Exploration

Learn More: Perkins, M., Roe, J., & Furze, L. (2024). The AI Assessment Scale Revisited: A Framework for Educational Assessment (No. arXiv:2412.09029). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2412.09029

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AI Commons Bulletin 1/6/2025
Human-curated news about generative AI for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

💚 Try This: Create Examples for Critical Analysis
Students can use AI to create an example “in the style of” something, and then evaluate the result. For example, Dickens scholar Dan Doughtery offers: “Write a story about a young man falling in love in the style of Charles Dickens’ novel David Copperfield” (Dougherty).

Learn More: https://bowiestate.edu/academics/colleges/college-of-arts-and-sciences/departments/language-literature-and-cultural-studies/ceamag/ceamar-journal-2024.pdf#page=38

🔮 Crystal Ball: “Digital Twins”
Watch for this in the next year: virtual models of a specific object, person or system updated using real-time data. Imagine it as a tool for the ultimate personalized learning system.

Learn More: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/digital-twin

ℹ️ Students See Feedback from a “Calibrated” AI as Helpful
In this example, instructors augmented a general AI tool with research from their discipline and works from previous students (both = 35 million words). Then instructors had the AI tool give feedback on student assignments. The students loved it.

Learn More: (Numerous theories here – skip to page 17 for results). Zapata, G. C., Saini, A., Tzirides, A. -O. (Olnacy), Cope, W., & Kalantzis, M. (2024). The Role of Feedback in University Students’ Learning Experiences: An Exploration Grounded in Activity Theory. Ubiquitious Learning: An International Journal, 18(2), 1-30. https://cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/the-role-of-ai-feedback-in-university-students-learning-experiences

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