Welcome to the Tuesday Teaching Tip, an easy-to-implement tool that you can use immediately in your classroom teaching. 

TUESDAY TEACHING TIP: Citing AI

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly ubiquitous in higher education and here at SCU, we’re all navigating how to guide students in its responsible use. Faculty take many different approaches to AI in the classroom, from fully embracing it as co-author to prohibiting all use, and everything in between. Many of us have already begun incorporating syllabus statements about using AI critically and ethically (such as the one on this DRT page), but how do we put these principles into action?

If you allow the use of generative AI in your course, whatever your policy is, it is essential to clarify how your students can transparently cite their use of AI. 

Here’s one way to do it 

This week, we challenge you to give students some specific direction about how to cite their acceptable use of generative AI in your course. Here are some things you might do:

• Add examples of proper AI citations to your syllabus to model what you expect from your students. You can find examples of different uses of and ways to cite AI on our DRT page [link to updated page].
• Add language about citing AI to an assignment description.
• Work with students in class to workshop citation examples based on students’ actual use of AI.
• Have your students provide shared links from ChatGPT, Gemini, or other AI tools to learn more about how they are prompting and using AI responses.
• Ask students to include reflections about what they used, and what they didn’t, from AI responses in the process of completing an assignment

DID YOU DO IT?

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UPCOMING EVENTS

RSVP to join us for lunch at our upcoming CAFE on AI in Action: Enhancing Teaching and Learning in the Classroom on Wednesday, October 16 at 11:45am, to be followed by an “Implementation Hour” with support for implementing what you learned at the CAFE into your plans for an upcoming class session or assignment.

See our full calendar of events here.

WANT TO READ A LITTLE MORE?

• SCU Digital Resources for Teaching (DRT)
• AI in the Classroom (and what about Academic Integrity?)
• AI Squared (School of Engineering)
• Guidelines for citing AI and AI-generated content from:
• APA
• MLA
• Chicago

This week’s Tuesday Teaching Tip was prepared by C.J. Gabbe (Environmental Studies and Sciences) and Eric Haynie (Instructional Technology)—with some assistance from ChatGPT 4.0—on behalf of the Faculty Collaborative.

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And check out our full calendar of CAFEs and other Faculty Development and Faculty Collaborative events.