Draft AI UnWorkshop
Goals
Participants will:
- Explore the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a teacher tool.
- Share their experiences with AI to establish a baseline for best practices in the classroom.
- As the sessions progress, evaluate the issue of trust in AI.
Description
Teachers, fellows, and staff will spend a day exploring the advantages and pitfalls of AI, solving problems, and discussing its use in the classroom. This is an "unworkshop" because the area under study, AI, is not well known yet. We have all been living with and encountering AI for a few years now: we know what it is in practical terms but we are still figuring out how to cope with its challenges and make good use of its capabilities. This will be part hack-a-thon, part discussion session, all hands-on-deck.
Duration
One day, adjustable.
Projected agenda
09:00 Introductions, registration, greetings...the usual QN stuff (15 min)
09:15 HoW: Hopes and Worries about AI - we call them out and list them or use 3M Post-It notes (30 min)
09:45 Discussion: Identify challenges in lessons, labs, computers, other tech, etc. where we could use advice, coaching or ideas (45 min)
10:30 Break (15 min)
10:45 Craft AI prompts based on our ideas (45 min)
11:30 Lunch and brain-break (60 min)
12:30 Small groups: Hack our problems with any AI platform. (Divide groups by problems; encourage multiple AI platforms.) (60 min)
13:30 Discuss results: (30 min)
- Did you get answers?
- Did you have to follow up?
- Did you get something actionable?
- Was it helpful?
- Which AI platform did you use? Was it good, bad, or ugly?
14:00 Small groups again: What challenges are posed by AI to your teaching? Report out. (45 min)
14:45 Break (15 min)
15:00 Small groups yet again: Brainstorm or use AI to hack solutions. Report out. (45 min)
15:45 Tutorial: AI and ML in HEP
16:30 Go home!