🤖 Term of the Day: AI Reliance
The term AI reliance refers to how a student behaves with AI: reflective, cautious, thoughtless, or collaborative. Considering the scale of AI use could help instructors identify patterns of reliance to inform how to approach AI in the their courses.
Learn More: Pew Research Center. (2025, April 3). How the U.S. public and AI experts view artificial intelligence.
📖 AI Literacy as a Public Need
AI experts are overwhelmingly optimistic about AI’s impact, but the public is far more skeptical. Instructors may find themselves caught between top-down AI enthusiasm and student ambivalence or fear. There is a need for AI literacy in order for students to understand how it works, who makes it, and what it could mean to their fields or futures.
Learn More: Pew Research Center. (2025, April 3). How the U.S. public and AI experts view artificial intelligence.
🎭 Role-Based Prompts for Students
Teaching students to use roles activates a more satisfying interaction with AI tools, at least compared to generic prompts. Consider including prompt techniques for classroom use.
Learn More: Louatouate & Zeriouh, 2025, JCSTS.
🤔 LLMs are Inconsistent
Benchmarking LLMs is more complicated than traditional technology; tests overestimate model reliability, and existing metrics can mask how inconsistent LLMs are, especially in high-stakes academic tasks.