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💚 Try This: Create Examples for Critical Analysis
Students can use AI to create an example “in the style of” something, and then evaluate the result. For example, Dickens scholar Dan Doughtery offers: “Write a story about a young man falling in love in the style of Charles Dickens’ novel David Copperfield” (Dougherty).
Learn More: CharlesGPT: Dickens, Generative AI, and Literary Studies Now
🔮 Crystal Ball: “Digital Twins”
Watch for this in the next year: virtual models of a specific object, person or system updated using real-time data. Imagine it as a tool for the ultimate personalized learning system.
Learn More: Cheat Sheet: What is Digital Twin?
ℹ️ Students See Feedback from a “Calibrated” AI as Helpful
In this example, instructors augmented a general AI tool with research from their discipline and works from previous students (both = 35 million words). Then instructors had the AI tool give feedback on student assignments. The students loved it.
Learn More: (Numerous theories here – skip to page 17 for results). Zapata, G. C., Saini, A., Tzirides, A. -O. (Olnacy), Cope, W., & Kalantzis, M. (2024). The Role of Feedback in University Students’ Learning Experiences: An Exploration Grounded in Activity Theory. Ubiquitious Learning: An International Journal, 18(2), 1-30.