Call for Participation: Virtual Roundtable 1 – “Teaching with or Against AI”
ACCUTE would like to invite members of all categories to propose ideas for their participation in an online roundtable discussion planned for this fall semester entitled “Teaching with or Against AI.” Potential panel participants are encouraged to consider the following prompts and questions (among many other possibilities) in formulating their proposals:
- How has the advent of artificial intelligence applications like ChatGPT impacted your experience of teaching literature? How has it impacted your students?
- As a student, has AI changed your approach to learning and completing course assignments or degree requirements?
- What is the current impact of AI in the study and teaching of literature?
- Should English Studies professors and teachers embrace AI as an inevitability and as a potential tool for students and teachers, or should it be resisted, or even banned from use?
- Are there any upsides to teaching English studies in an AI-saturated environment?
- How do you address the use of AI in formulating and evaluating writing assignments?
- Is AI a threat to English studies and the humanities, merely a tool, or something else entirely?
- What do you think the role of AI in humanities teaching will be in the coming years?
The panel aims to provide an opportunity for English faculty and students to share different perspectives on the advent of AI and its role in the classroom and beyond, and to reflect on what AI tools might mean in a discipline so focused on interactions with, and the generation of, written texts. The Roundtable will take place virtually on the ACCUTE Zoom channel, in early December (time and date TBD depending on participant availability). Following the Roundtable, selections from the discussion, combined with additional responses from the wider ACCUTE community, will be featured in a future issue of The Angle.
The 6-8 panelists selected for the Roundtable will be expected to present a brief (600-700 words / 4-5 minute) statement that presents an argument, anecdote, experience, theory, or extended set of questions about AI and the teaching of literature, and to engage in discussion with each others’ ideas, before the conversation opens up to the wider audience.
Instructions:
- To propose your participation, please send a statement of no more than 200 words describing the presentation you would like to offer, plus a short bio, to accutesocials@gmail.com.
- Please paste your proposal and bio directly into the email.
- Please use TEACHING WITH AI as the subject header.
Deadline: Please send your proposal by 20 October 2024.