Empowering Educators, Equipping Students: SHW's Journey with GAIT Implementation
Published: 7 February 2024
In August 2023, the publication of the university's AI Guidance for Staff required Schools to establish their stance in relation to student use of Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools (GAIT).
Empowering Educators, Equipping Students: SHW's Journey with GAIT Implementation
Laura Sharp, Mia Wilson, Zofia Zukowska, Ailsa Frew, Julie Langan Martin.
In August 2023, the publication of the university's AI Guidance for Staff required Schools to establish their stance in relation to student use of Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools (GAIT). Recognising the need for a cohesive approach within SHW, our team embarked on a collaborative mission to equip teaching colleagues with an understanding of GAIT to allow the school to create a consensus statement on student use of GAIT. To minimise duplication of effort, learning from progress by colleagues across the university community was core to this work.
An online questionnaire was shared with SHW course leads in September. This surveyed existing knowledge and practices of GAIT, with the aim of uncovering blind spots and areas of uncertainty. Additionally, it aimed to gauge staff stances about the acceptability of GAIT use. The collated responses informed the planning of a workshop, held in late November.
The university has committed to: "Empowering students to experiment with, and understand the potential of, AI in an ethical way." (UoG, 2023) The workshop aimed to engage staff to ensure SHW takes a consistent approach to guiding students about effective and acceptable use of GAIT. The two-hour workshop opened by providing an overview of GAIT and highlighted aspects of its use that staff may not have previously considered or been aware of (e.g. image creation, gaming opportunities, PDF upload and review). Participants were then provided an opportunity to reflect on and share where GAIT has already infiltrated teaching.
Practical activities offered staff the opportunity to explore ethical issues associated with GAIT. The quality of written work that can be generated was explored and critiqued. Discussion during the session provided ideas on how assessments could be reconsidered to ensure students are not able to rely fully on GAIT.
At the end of the session a range of GAIT guidance resources, developed by colleagues in other areas of the university, were shared and participants had the opportunity to extract wording and topics they considered most valuable for the SHW statement. Following the workshop, the team collated these responses and produced a draft statement which was circulated for feedback before being finalised. This statement should now be included in Moodle in the Assessment Section.
First published: 7 February 2024
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