A Resilience Approach to Navigating Teaching in the AI Context
Engaging a framework of "AI Resilience” fosters teaching, learning, and engagement and draws on a growth mindset for faculty, students, and the campus.
Presented by:
Nisha Gupta, Centre College
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A resilience approach to navigating teaching in the AI context. The technology of AI is not going away. How can we address it and continue to teach in the way that we believe in? We are approaching it from a resilience framework by pedagogy with intentional design, identifying what we value about student learning, and paying attention to such issues as cognitive offloading. Resilience is a framework that is grounded in growth mindset, encouraging faculty and students to adapt by embracing its capacities, AI's capacities, while remaining attentive to its limitations.
Key Words:
Adaptation, Vigilance, Liberal Arts
Abstract:
Generative AI has disrupted faculty capacity to engage students in deep learning, prompting a reevaluation of assessment practices. Traditional formats like take-home essays and research papers are no longer sufficient. By approaching pedagogy with intentional design, we can cultivate human-centered capacities such as critical thinking, complex problem-solving, and synthesis. Our campus is adopting an “AI Resilience” framework grounded in a growth mindset, encouraging faculty and students to adapt by embracing AI’s capabilities while remaining attentive to its limitations. Resilience signals that we consider the usefulness of AI, while remaining vigilant against its limitations.
Outcomes:
1. Articulate the concept of “AI Resilience” and its grounding in a growth mindset.
2. Apply principles of intentional pedagogical design to foster human-based skills.
3. Identify the ways generative AI challenges traditional assessment practices in higher education.
References:
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