📚 Book Club Discussion Board by Dhrumil Mehta

What do you want to discuss?

data4news — 2024-10-18 12:53:46 UTC

In this section, feel free to add any burning questions you'd like to discuss today! You can press the plus sign under each section header to add cards.

Bias

anitasundrani1 — 2024-10-18 16:23:27 UTC

Students may use ChatGPT as a resource to better understand concepts, but by doing so may only be exposed to certain perspectives that bias their learning

Shortcutting for coding

2024-10-18 16:23:34 UTC

Students using it to write their code before they have the background to be able to properly edit/assess what GPT has written.

How might we use chat agents to boost in-class engagement?

2024-10-18 16:23:56 UTC

Monitoring

2024-10-18 16:23:57 UTC

How to monitor the false/fake information they receive when they are working with ChatGPT.

Formative assessments

data4news — 2024-10-18 16:24:55 UTC

In the book Lang talks about “formative assessments” - I’m wondering what the equivalent of those are for journalism. How can we lower the stakes and have more formative assessments in the context of a reporting class

Model

anitasundrani1 — 2024-10-18 16:24:57 UTC

Instructors could model the use of AI tools as a way to facilitate learning, while recognizing the limitations to the results students may get

Which tool for skill building?

2024-10-18 16:25:38 UTC

Should we use a different gen AI tool that is more tailored for the specific skill we're trying to build, or should we stick with a more general one?

I am seeing more international students using translation software with a GPT punch-up for journalistic writing. Becomes a problem for audio classes where students have to deliver their writing.

2024-10-18 16:25:41 UTC

A (too) excellent paper

2024-10-18 16:26:26 UTC

I had several experiences when the handed in paper got much better than what the particular student's experience would suggest. A lot of terms and definitions we haven't even learnt before...

I wonder if frequent, low-/zero-stakes "trivia games" could achieve the same results as quizzing.

2024-10-18 16:27:03 UTC

Has some success asking students to have GPT "edit" their work (prompting the AI to be Robert Smith an NPR reporter) and incorporate suggestions.

2024-10-18 16:27:26 UTC

Creativity

2024-10-18 16:28:17 UTC

How the tool won't kill the students creativity or unique point of views.

Optionality

2024-10-18 16:28:38 UTC

How can we give students options when the assessment is a story?

Is there software that would track how a student writes a piece? So you could see how they make changes and correct themselves. Might spot sudden copy and paste of AI content.

2024-10-18 16:30:42 UTC