Msc Cc Ai Literacy Workshop
This year for the new cohort of students (25/26) I want to take the opportunity to introduce and ‘onboard’ the students to think about AI in a more critical way, understand what they know or understand AI is, and try to ‘unmask’ some preconceived notions about it before students use it blindly within their learning.
It will also a moment to introduce my PhD research and give a wider context of what I am doing.
First session in first week (general)
Topics to potentially cover:
- see who uses AI - are students aware and have they used LLM’s (for example)
- opinions and imaginations of AI - explore people’s perceptions
- what is AI? Here I am interested to gain understanding of what students think
- Define AI - give overview, talk about the ‘wooliness’ of the term AI
(very) brief history?
Additional: introduce my research and the potential to be involved in research project(s) on the course.
- Possible activity - what does the large language model know about you? (Exposing privacy questions when using corporate AI tools)
responsible uses of ai in a masters level of education - expectations
genAI in HE - GenAI in industry
what is responsible use, what is thinking critically
Second in physical computing unit (context specific)?