This guide presents 10 hands-on “challenges” to help UVA students, faculty, and researchers explore generative AI in academic and creative contexts. Each self-contained activity promotes active learning, critical thinking, and reflection, and can be completed in any order based on your interests.
A 5-minute, method-first activity: students verify three references from their own draft bibliography before submitting - resolving DOIs and searching exact titles - then classify each as found-and-matches, found-but-differs, or not-found, and correct entries from the real record. Motivated by the rise of fabricated ("hallucinated") citations that look perfectly formatted yet point at nothing. Teaching point: "not found" does not automatically mean "fabricated".
Practical strategies for teaching AI-assisted lit reviews while keeping human analysis and critical thinking central.
Over 60 practical assignment prompts and ideas across disciplines to assist with teaching skills for using ChatGPT (and other AI tools), including prompt engineering, evaluating output, analyzing texts, writing, generating content, studying, and career planning.
A collection of openly licensed, peer-reviewed strategies that utilize generative AI tools to support learning in higher education
Algorithms are everywhere, and they have increasing power over what we consume (Amazon, Netflix, TikTok), who we date (“the apps”), and how we understand the world (Google, ChatGPT). So, what are algorithms, and how did they become so powerful? Who are the humans that create them, and why does it matter?
In this workshop, we will explore how algorithms can perpetuate bias and discrimination, and discuss some preventive strategies. It is open to learners of all backgrounds and experience.
The Hidden Layer Workshop introduces key generative AI (genAI) concepts through a privacy lens. Participants probe the possibilities and limitations of genAI while considering implications for intellectual privacy, intellectual property, data sovereignty, and human agency. In the centerpiece activity, participants engage in a hidden layer simulation to develop a conceptual understanding of the algorithms in the neural networks underlying LLMs and their implications for machine bias and AI hallucination.
ChatGPT is an generative artificial intelligence chatbot released in November 2022 by OpenAI. What are the opportunities in using this tool to teach library instruction? This document highlights various ways to engage with learners in critically analyzing ChatGPT (version GPT-3) and its responses through the ACRL Frame: Information Creation as a Process.
Algorithms are not neutral but this does not mean they are not useful tools for research. In this workshop on algorithmic bias, student learn how algorithms can perpetuate bias and discrimination and how to critically evaluate their search results.
