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Good morning Teaching Toolkit Tailgate! I'm Ellie Louson, your AMA host for Sept 1st. Ask me anything about experiential learning in undergrad courses. I don't know everything, but I am glad to share what I've learned facilitating experiential courses at MSU under the Spartan Studios project: the good, the bad, and the surprising. At last year's tailgate we made stuff out of Play-Doh and I want today to be just a much fun!

Our Spartan Studios Playkit is now a navigable PDF! Have fun with these resources for designing your own interdisciplinary, experiential courses or improving an existing course. Thanks to Erica Venton and the Provost's Communications Team for developing this playful resource with us.

ELLIE - I had an amazing experiential learning experience (HA) as an undergrad at MSU, but I lucked into it. It just so happened to be amazing (but I didn't sign up for it because I knew it was experiential). Do you have suggestions for A) educators to communicate if/how their offerings are experiential or B) how learners can find such offerings?

A new D2L site has been started to help facilitate conversation about experiential learning given the Covid-19 pandemic. The site has discussion threads for laboratories, studio arts, field placements, and more. Self-enroll here: https://apps.d2l.msu.edu/selfenroll/course/1161791

Digital Collaborative Learning 2.0 - Faculty Learning Community 2023-24

This FLC has a group on #iteachmsu and meets about every three weeks. https://iteach.msu.edu/groups/digital-collaborative-learning-for-the-21st-century-2022-2023-learning-community/feeds

The organizers, Stokes Schwartz in CAL-IAH and Marohang Limbu in CAL-WRAC, are editing a special issue of the Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies. Great list of resources on the page announcing the special issue.
https://jogltep.com/duplicated-published-issues-61/digital-collaborative-learning-initiatives-dei-critical-thinking-and-cultivation-of-next-generation-skills/

AI Commons Bulletin 3/12/2025

🔊 MSU IT Announces ChatGPT and Gemini “Coming Soon”
The new AI page on tech.msu.edu teases that Gemini and ChatGPT are “coming soon” But it is unclear if the applications will be available for purchase or if the campus community will have free access of the latest foundational models.

Learn More: https://tech.msu.edu/technology/ai/

✍️ Departments at Johns Hopkins Integrated AI into their Curriculum Development Process
It’s like experiential learning for faculty – integrate AI into a standard task that you need to do anyway. Also has a list of very concrete bite-sized learning objectives for learning to use AI, like: name 3 chatbots, start a chat, list 3 ways to make a better prompt.

Learn More: Khamis, N., et al. (2025). More intelligent faculty development: Integrating GenAI in curriculum development programs. Medical Teacher, 1–3.

⚙️ AI Tools Are Being Used for All Stages of the Scientific Research Process
This working paper gives quite in-depth description of several AI tools being used for each of step of the research cycle: (1) lit review, (2) generating research ideas, (3) conducting experiments, (4) generating multimodal content, and (5) conducting peer-review. Recommended to get a good lay of the land.

Learn More: Eger, S., et al. (2025). Transforming Science with Large Language Models: A Survey on AI-assisted Scientific Discovery, Experimentation, Content Generation, and Evaluation.

📈 Grammarly Acquires Coda: From Writing Assistant to AI Productivity
Grammarly, popular with students and educators as a writing assistant software, just purchased the AI productivity company Coda. While Grammarly has previously positioned itself as a teaching tool for writing, this acquisition signals a move towards an AI productivity platform.

Learn More: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/company/grammarly-acquires-coda/

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Equitable Pedagogy Learning Community- Reminder for our meeting this Friday 10/20/23 from 10:00am-11:30am! We have both in-person and Zoom options available!

Remember, our meetings will always take place from 10-11:30am the 3rd Friday of every month for the semester. 

For our meeting on Friday, we have two different papers to discuss about student resilience (I know they seem long, but there are lots of really big data tables). 


Meeting details:
In person: Synder C301
On Zoom: Link, Meeting ID: 988 5368 6880, Passcode: OFASD
We hope to see everyone on Friday! 

Casey and Valerie

Wonderful writeup about the Pig Project, a Spartan Studios course I got to facilitate last fall. This experiential, interdisciplinary course involved students taking responsibility for and raising piglets at the MSU Student Organic Farm. Author Greg Teachout interviewed me and the primary instructors Laurie Thorp and Dale Rozeboom (from the overall 5-member teaching team) and really got to the heart of this course. https://undergrad.msu.edu/news/view/id/432