Vol. 2, Issue 3 | October 2024
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Welcome to October’s issue of the Teaching and Learning AI Digest. Below are exciting stories about the evolution of AI in our classrooms, labs,
campus community and around the world, all curated by the team at Purdue University’s Innovation Hub.
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Purdue, Google will gather business, education and government leaders to explore the power of AI |
No emerging technology holds more promise or raises more questions than artificial intelligence, which is accelerating a world that moves fast to move even faster. How humans might harness this technology, stabilize its growth, maximize the benefits and minimize the risks to truly leverage AI’s potential is the focus of the
inaugural Purdue/Google AI Summit, set to take place in Indianapolis on Nov. 14. |
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Purdue develops game-changing AI tools to enhance teaching and learning |
Since before the AI boom, Purdue’s Teaching and Learning Technologies team has been working on tools to assist instructors and students. With the release of ChatGPT in 2022, the team is finding innovative applications for AI to enhance the teaching and learning experience. |
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- Nov. 11 & 12 – AI-Enhanced Collaborative Tools Workshop (Register here)
- Nov. 14 – Purdue/Google AI Summit (Register here)
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AI @ Purdue
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Purdue will be introducing an array of new and
innovative features within Brightspace, called Creator+. This will include an AI generator for practice questions.
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team of Purdue researchers recently received an NSF grant to map trees using AI to help address health and environmental issues.
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Research Worth Reading
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Learn how researchers developed a guided reading protocol
around pre-reading, structured note-taking and GPT-aided identification of unfamiliar terms to help students engage with scientific literature.
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See how the Walton Family Foundation’s analysis of of
student and instructor AI usage reveals the growing rates at which these populations use AI.
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