Dealing with Disruption: Navigating generative artificial intelligence for writing and learning

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  • Date: Day 2, Wednesday
  • Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Location: Fall Room

Presenters:

Dr. Johanna Amos, Outreach Manager, Student Academic Success Services, Queen’s University

Lindsay Heggie, Academic Skills and Writing Specialist, Queen’s University

Session Description:

The launch of ChatGPT created a furor in higher education; generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools were suddenly poised to make a significant impact on human writing and learning. In this session, we showcase our response to this challenge: an interactive module that guides students in the productive and ethical use of GenAI tools for academic work. We highlight the potential of a “yes, but” approach to GenAI—one that asks students to apply the same critical capacity required in their coursework to these tools—and of meeting our students in the messiness of a moment of disruption and uncertainty. 

Learning Outcomes:

  • Learn about an interactive module that guides students in the productive and ethical use of GenAI tools in academic work.
  • Reflect on the ways that GenAI has impacted the support we provide as learning specialists, as well as how we might respond.

Thank you for taking the time to join our LSAC community today. Before we begin, we would like to pause to intentionally express our gratitude for the land we are on today and to all the Indigenous Peoples past, present and future that have and continue to be stewards of these lands. We recognize that moving forward we are mutually responsible for the caretaking and preservation of this land for future generations.

We commit to co-creating an accountable space. In our LSAC community, we are committed to creating an accountable space where we welcome individual growth, learning, and unlearning. In this space, we recognize and gently remind one another that we are all tender humans with our own stories and experiences, both positive and negative. We aim to lead with kindness, openness, and patience as we identify and break down barriers to create a safer space for us all. 

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