Register for Denice Lewis’s Seminar

Generative AI for Science Majors and Graduate Students

This seminar will include a discussion of how participants are using AI tools for their own research or other use, explore whether they have had students use an AI tool in a course, and if so how it was used. We will also explore the question of what assessment was used and how it went.

We will then look at an overview of different AI tools that can be used for different parts of the scientific method. The “Let’s play!” portion of the session will focus on taking a given research topic (not familiar to participants) and exploring how to use a given tool to solve a problem or complete a task.

This seminar will also review strategies for integrating AI tools into a class (teaching the students the tool, what types of assignments make sense, determining how to assess the student’s use of the tool, and reflecting on what worked and didn’t [for the instructor and/or the student]).

A practice portion will be included, which will ask participants to pick an AI tool and ask themselves how they might incorporate it in their class and to think about the learning objective(s) that might go along with its use, as well as whether there are any barriers for a student to use that particular tool.