'The Exciting AI Adventure': Reflections on the Ethical Use of Generative AI in Academic Writing’
Lee-Price, Simon (2024) 'The Exciting AI Adventure': Reflections on the Ethical Use of Generative AI in Academic Writing’. In: ALDcon2024, 7 June 2024, Glasgow Caledonian University, the University of Glasgow and the University of Strathclyde [online].
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Abstract
Generative AI is rapidly and radically changing practices of reading and writing in HE and compelling institutions to adopt new strategies for promoting academic integrity and incorporating emergent literacy-enhancing technologies into curriculum delivery. This presentation offers a critical reflection on two academic writing workshops delivered in-person to undergraduates in October 2023 that aimed both to develop students’ understanding of academic integrity and demonstrate a constructive and critical use of AI in academic work. The workshops were designed with the aid of ChatGPT and one incorporated a paraphrasing activity using QuillBot. The purpose of this presentation is to explore how practitioners can work with AI in a way that embraces ALDinHE’s (2023) Five Values of Learning Development, in particular, supporting staff and students to ‘make sense of’ HE and a commitment to ‘critical pedagogy’. In its analysis of both the design and delivery stages of the workshops and taking into account informal student and subject lecturer feedback, the presentation adopts an academic literacies approach that encourages ‘alternative ways of meaning making in academia . . . by considering the resources that (student) writers bring to the academy’ (Lillis and Scott, 2007, p. 13). It also draws on the concept of ‘slow reading’, which resists the increasing emphasis on efficiency and the associated view of reading as information extraction, and promotes instead ‘an ethical relation of openness with the otherness, ambiguity and strangeness of the text, and how this openness to intensity and intimacy can be transformative’ (Walker, 2017, p. xx). Themes that will be explored include co-creation, lived experience, and ethical responsibility. The presentation will propose Learning Development practitioners, with their transdisciplinary knowledge and broad expertise, can and should be proactive in supporting their institutions to engage innovatively with the practical, pedagogical and ethical challenges (and opportunities!) issuing from AI
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Simon Lee-Price |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jul 2024 11:38 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Jul 2024 11:38 |
| URI: | https://bnu.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/19105 |
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