WAB Learns: AI for Faculty: ALT Team

Adapting to AI Presentation

ALT Team Meetings

WAB AI Resources

The resources on this page are cut from other sections on the guide. Top-tab navigation. These might be a useful starting point for ALT Team members interested in AI.

Some Useful Tools To Get Started

Perplexity AI - Search & GPT
Useful, focused and pretty reliable AI-Search. Can do a lot. Link to how-to-guide for educators.
Can AI Tools Help With Academic Research?
Elicit, SciSpace, LitMaps, Perplexity and more can help educators with academic research. Many of these are being used with success by our students, with support from our library-tech teams.
Diffit - Differentiation & Resources Made Easy
A GPT tool focused on accessibility of resources and texts for lesson planning & differentiation.

Some tools worth exploring:

MagicSchool
An alternative to Education Copilot. Appears to be free with account, and lots of features. If you test it out, please give us feedback.
LUDIA - the UDL Assistant
This Poe Chatbot acts as a UDL assistant. Created by Beth Stark & Jeremie Rostan.

Academic Integrity in a GenAI World

Official Response to AI in Assessment from the IB - Impacts, the Future & Support
"The IB believes that this AI technology will become part of our everyday lives—like spell checkers, translation software and calculators. We therefore need to adapt and transform our educational programmes and assessment practices so that students can use these new AI tools ethically and effectively."
Russell Group principles on use of AI in education
Coordinated guidance on GenAI from the UK's 'Russell Group' of universities.
Six Tenets of PostPlagiarism, by Dr. Sarah Eaton
What does Academic Integrity look like in an AI World?
AI Detectors Are Biased Against Non-Native English Writers
Stanford paper outlines how AI detectors are unreliable and biased against writers from non-English backgrounds.

Interview with Olli-Pekka Heinonen

In this interview, Director General of the IB, Olli-Pekka Heinonen discusses AI and the future of learning, in the IB context:

UNESCO Guidance

UNESCO Guide to GenAI in Education & Research
[Sept 7, 2023]. An excellent place to start in thinking about adapting to GenAI. Comprehensive & Concise.

If you only have time to read one thing, read this guide.

1. What is GenAI & how does it work?
2. Controversies & Implications for Education
3. Regulating GenAI in Education
4. Towards a Policy Framework for Education & Research
5. Facilitating Creative Use of GenAI in Education & Research
6. GenAI & the Future of Education & Research

The graphics below are adaptations from the Policy section.

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AI for Faculty: ALT Team

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