AI Exchange is a blog modeled on an open access journal aiming to support discussion at UNL about the use of AI in teaching and education. It will contain articles, essays, tutorials, along with any feedback, e.g., “letters to the editors” in response to any of the postings.
We hope that readers and writers will find and share ways to use AI for the benefit of their students and themselves.
Submitting
Moderated comments may be posted in response to blog articles, however, if a longer response is appropriate, please consider submitting a full blog post. If the article responds to other already posted articles, those will be linked to if the links are included in the submission. To submit a blog article, please email the article with any additional information needed, to ctt@unl.edu with the subject “AI Exchange: blog article”.
Harnessing AI for Instructional Interventions
By Sydney Brown, PhD., Assistant Director, Center for Transformative Teaching
This article shows one way to collaborate with AI to address instructional challenges. It includes the components of an effective AI prompt along with an example of an exchange with an AI (Claude 3 Sonnet). Additionally, the same prompts are used with four different AIs to compare and contrast responses. AI prompts are denoted by the label “Prompt” along with using a monospaced font. AI responses are in italics.