📝 MSU AI Summit Open for Registration
The MSU Ethics Center is hosting an AI Summit on May 7th, 2025. Registration for the day-long event is now open. The agenda lists panel discussions and breakout sessions; presenter information is not yet listed.
Learn More: AI Summit
🤔 CFP: Personal Reflection on AI and Teaching Practice
The Journal for Research and Practice in College Teaching is soliciting short personal narratives (1500 words) presenting how an instructor has integrated AI into their teaching/activities/discussions. Manuscript submission for consideration, June 20, 2025. Notification of acceptance and peer review, July 18, 2025. Publication, August 2025.
Learn More: Journal for Research & Practice in College Teaching
🤖 Prompt Decorators for Tweaking AI Output
Adding structured cues like +++Reasoning or +++StepByStep to your prompts can guide LLMs towards clearer, more useful outputs.
Learn More: Prompt Decorators: A Simple Way to Improve AI Responses
💻 Anthropic Education Report
Anthropic examined one million anonymized conversations with Claude from higher education users. Insights include: • Top uses: editing essays, solving math/code problems, summarizing readings.
- Heavy users: CS and STEM students far outpace humanities, business, and health fields.
- Four styles of use: direct answers, collaborative solving, co-writing, and iterative refining.
- Most activity happens at high cognitive levels like analysis and creation (not just regurgitation).
Learn More: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-education-report-how-university-students-use-claude