Teaching with AI

Jose Antonio Bowen (DALLAS, TX) is the author of Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning and Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers Using Relationships, Resilience, and Reflection. He is the former president of Goucher College.

C. Edward Watson (BLACKSBURG, VA) is the Associate Vice President for Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation at the American Association of Colleges and Universities. He is the former Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Playing to Learn with Reacting to the Past: Research on High Impact, Active Learning Practices. Bowen and Watson are coauthors of Teaching Naked Techniques: A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes.

Chronology

Introduction

Part I. Thinking with AI

1. AI Basics

2. A New Era of Work

3. AI Literacy

4. Reimagining Creativity

Part II. Teaching with AI 

5. AI-Assisted Faculty  

6. AI Cheating and Detection  

7. AI Policies 

8. Grading and (Re-)Defining Quality  

Part III. Learning with AI

9. Feedback and Roleplaying with AI  

10. Designing Assignments and Assessments for Human Effort

11. Writing and AI

12. AI Assignments and Assessments

Epilogue 

Acknowledgments

References

Index 

This book is perfect for instructors looking to sharpen twenty-first century skills students will need in the workforce.

— Top Hats "The Ultimate 2024 Summer Reading List for Professors"

Navigating AIs impact within an educational context is a formidable task, one that requires a collective effort. In Teaching with AI, authors Bowen and Watson equip educators to adapt to these changes with integrity, practical wisdom, and creative inspiration. This book serves as an invaluable resource for those seeking to harness the potential of AI to enhance their teaching and learning, while mitigating the challenges.

— Bonni Stachowiak, Producer and Host of the Teaching and Learning Podcast

This book is a veritable lifeline to those of us navigating the turbulent waters of AI in the postsecondary classroom, provided we are willing to take seriously the need to revisit our assumptions about both what constitutes learning as well as the value and purpose of college teaching.

— Kate Drezek McConnell, American Association of Colleges and Universities

This book is fantastic! Bowen and Watson deftly combine explanations of complex issues surrounding student use of AI, suggestions for integrating AI effectively into a wide range of teaching and learning situations, and examples of actual prompts to enhance the effectiveness of AI. This is so good I kept telling myself just a few more pages, until I had read nearly the entire book in one sitting.   

— Todd Zakrajsek, co-author, Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors

Teaching with AI offers clarity for faculty overwhelmed by AI, explaining concepts in understandable terms and providing a historical foundation. Beyond classroom instruction techniques, it reveals innovative ways to integrate AI to reduce faculty workload and transform educational practices. Bowen and Watson empower educators to navigate AIs complexities without requiring prior knowledge. A must-read for any faculty, old or new.

— Stephanie Seketa, Ringling College of Art and Design

Teaching with AI is accessible for all educators, regardless of their previous experience with AI. It explains AI in a clear and insightful way that allows both those with little experience and a good understanding of AI to truly understand AI’s potential in education.

The book provides a great insight into how best to write prompts to best achieve a wide variety of desired outcomes. I am already noticing that when I use AI, I am incorporating the ideas suggested in Teaching with AI to get better quality responses to my requests.

Throughout the book, I appreciated the wide range of AI models that were referred to and used to provide examples of responses to prompts. The comparison of responses to the same prompt by the different models helped to highlight the differences of each model, which I previously hadn’t considered.

My favourite aspect of the book was the practical way it suggested different AI tools for different aspects of education. Other resources I have come across often describe AI well, but leave out suggestions of specific tools, so having a tool kit of AI resources that I can now explore is a much appreciated take away.

- Shynade Hohenhaus, Head of Year 11n | Chemistry, Psychology, junior science and maths teacher | MacKillop Catholic College, Mount Peter QLD