Courageous Student-Teacher Dialogue on AI: Cultivating Environments of Respect

This interdisciplinary panel, representing five departments from the CHaSS AI Working Group, will discuss policies and pedagogical approaches for navigating uncertainties with generative AI challenges. This informational session highlights issues in relation to USU’s academic integrity policies and procedures, as well as students' rights and educational benefits. The session also focuses on creating productive learning conversations with students in order to cultivate productive AI use, prevent AI misuse, and respond with care when AI has been possibly misused. Our panelists will discuss the following questions:How can teachers frame classes' (and my pedagogy) to establish productive expectations around AI usage? What are the possible consequences of various instructor responses to AI misuse? (from the "I'll ignore it" to "I'll sanction the student without reporting a suspected academic integrity violation" to "You immediately fail"). How can teachers guide students in documenting their use of AI? How can teachers give productive feedback on AI documentation so students can evaluate their learning? How can teachers build productive student-teacher dialogue and revision opportunities into an assignment in anticipation of some students mistakenly misusing or over-relying on AI? How can teachers create dialogues/activities on the ethical and practical uses (or misuses) of AI in their discipline?