Integrating AI into Assignments to Support Student Learning

If using a graphing calculator can help someone learn calculus and using a digital camera can help someone learn photography, might using generative AI technologies help someone learn in other domains of knowledge?

Jamie Jirout is an associate professor of education and 2024-2025 Faculty AI Guide at UVA. Her courses typically have weekly homework assignments, and in fall 2024 many of these assignments integrated generative AI in some fashion.

Kiera Allison is an assistant professor of commerce and 2024-2025 Faculty AI Guide at UVA. In this assignment for a management communication course, she asks students to take on a persuasive task that feels impossible and explore how AI might help them accomplish that task.

Jun Wang is a lecturer of Chinese and 2024-2025 Faculty AI Guide at UVA. In this assignment for her fall 2024 Language, Culture, and Cognition course, she asks students to explore and reflect on the use of generative AI as they prepare for a class debate.

Spyridon Simotas is an assistant professor of French and 2024-2025 Faculty AI Guide at UVA. In this assignment for his Finding Your Voice in French course, he asks students to seek feedback from generative AI as they revise and edit their essays.

Rich Ross is an assistant professor of statistics and a 2024-2025 Faculty AI Guide. The goal of this in-class activity was to help students explore the use of generative AI in creating data visualizations and to realize that sometimes it's easier and faster to write the code yourself.

Two Georgia State University faculty members detail how they are teaching their students to use NotebookLM, an AI-powered research and notetaking tool, to help them read scholarly articles.

Researchers asked students to give their peers feedback on their writing, first with some AI help on generating that feedback and then without that AI help. The result? The AI help wasn't "sticky" in that students didn't internalize the advice the AI had been giving them.