Teaching Students To Research & Write With Integrity In The Digital Age

Student writing remains a crucial component of learning in higher education that supports the development of meta-learning and critical thinking skills.

Since ChatGPT exploded on the scene in the Fall of 2022, faculty and academic institutions have expressed concern about what the impact of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) applications will mean to student writing and learning. Specifically, discussions have focused on the impact of these applications to teaching, tutoring, and assessment of student writing and researching.

This project will support student research and writing in our digital age by providing faculty with the necessary resources to actively engage students in learning the critical skills of research and writing. Large language models such as generative artificial intelligence applications will be the focus of this faculty resource, and working with these applications in an educative, supportive, and ethical way will be the primary focus for the content of the resources we create for faculty to use.

Specifically, the project will support faculty in understanding how to support students to harness new and emerging technologies, vis-à-vis artificial intelligence applications, to support their learning and strengthen their digital fluency. The content covered through our project will address Humber Learning Outcomes including the key mindsets of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging, and systems thinking, the meta-skill of critical thinking, and skills in action including collaboration, communication, digital fluency, and innovation.

One of the project deliverables is a learning resource for faculty on working with genAI – Introduction to Generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) for Instructors.

(contact Jennie.Miron@humber.ca for access).