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ENG 111S: Composition I Supplemental Support

ENG 111S Generative AI Evaluation

Student Learning Outcome: Appraise the quality of the output created by an AI tool and question if it is appropriate for the user's purpose. 

Let's Discuss GAI

Let's Discuss:

  • How many of you have used a GAI tool like ChatGPT?
  • How do you or your peers use GAI tools? 
  • Which GAI tools do you find most useful? 
  • What do you wish it could do? 

What is Generative AI?

Things to remember about GAI: 

  • GAI relies on human-created content to be functional and useful. When GAI uses GAI as its dataset, the results get worse and worse. 
     
  • Information used in prompts for public GAI tools like ChatGPT become part of the training data. Consider whether your prompt contains confidential, copyrighted, or other protected information. 

GAI and Research

Generative AI and Research

1. Complete the GAI Research Activity with your group. 

2. For the final reflection question, post your group's answer to a hanging whiteboard.

GAI Discussion

Discuss:

  • What surprised you?
  • What are you still curious about?
  • What do you think about GAI and research?  
  • When is it helpful versus not helpful in research? Best uses? Worst uses? 

GAI - Key Takeaways

Key Takeaways:

  • GAI can help you with tasks in the initial stages of the research process:
    • create a to-do list
    • create a project timeline
    • organize a "brain dump" of scattered thoughts
    • generate potential search terms, synonyms, and phrases for a topic
       
  • GAI is less helpful with the collection stage of research. It's often more work to fact-check GAI responses for credibility than to start with a library database or Google search. 
     
  • Need help? Ask a librarian!