Harvard Business Publishing Education posted an article on four simply ways you can integrate generative artificial intelligence into your classroom. Below is an excerpt of this January 17, 2024, article, which you can read in its entirety here.
Many educators have taken early, eager steps forward with generative AI over the last year, weighing the technology’s benefits and challenges and experimenting with large language models (LLMs) to enhance and personalize student learning. Others have remained cautious, the path forward uncertain.
If you’re among the cautious, it’s OK. Perhaps you simply haven’t had time to experiment with the technology yourself. Or you’ve dabbled with it, but you’re just not sure how to effectively weave generative AI into your course. Keeping AI at a distance may seem like a comfortable status quo, but classrooms that don’t incorporate it risk being perceived as static or, worse, irrelevant.
The good news is that incorporating AI tools into your course doesn’t have to disrupt your existing teaching methods or completely overhaul your syllabus. Here are four simple yet transformative ways you can incorporate AI in your classroom.
- Ask students to critique AI’s output
- Have students compare the results of different generative AI tools
- Encourage students to use AI as a study buddy
- Use AI to create low-stakes quizzes