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"text": " Let's go back in time to the turn of a new millennium, where as some of us remember it,"
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"text": " This was a time when the world was experiencing a rapid shift in technological advancement."
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"text": " Researchers were no longer massive machines only available to people in white lab codes"
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"text": " The internet, though not new, was still in its infancy and how it would literally shape"
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"text": " While this technological revolution opened countless doors' possibility, it also bred"
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"text": " ideas of what our world would look like if we let this technology go too far."
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"text": " Even the entertainment industry was locked in on this idea, with movies like Irobat,"
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"text": " Even today, this idea still remains a central motivator in films like Her, X-Makina, and"
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"text": " the Creator."
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"text": " What happens to us if we outsource our humanity to artificial intelligence?"
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"text": " Does it benefit us?"
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"text": " Or will we end up losing a part of what makes us human for the sake of convenience?"
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"text": " This impacts our lives in our homes, in our jobs, in our classrooms."
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"text": " It seems like we're at the tipping point of having to answer these questions, and we must"
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"text": " now, more than ever, understand that how we answer these questions will forever impact"
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"text": " our daily lives."
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"text": " This is episode one, AI in the classroom."
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"text": " I'll pass out the handles."
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"text": " Okay."
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"text": " Thank you."
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"text": " Did you know that Texas Tech has a Taylor Swift class?"
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"text": " It's of course offered in collaboration by the Honors College and the School of Music."
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"text": " It's true."
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"text": " Today, I'm an honorary student, and the first to take my seat in a room on the second floor"
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"text": " Sarah Brinker is already there, setting up."
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"text": " She's not only the instructor, but the creator of this class."
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"text": " She says that we are truly living in Taylor's golden era."
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"text": " And to not study her popularity, her music, her fame, would be a missed opportunity."
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"text": " When it comes to emotional writing, few people do it better than Taylor."
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"text": " It's what fans have come to know and love about her music."
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"text": " The rawness, the realness, the detail of it."
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"text": " That's what makes her a great subject for the society."
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"text": " And so this is what I want to introduce the use of AI as another voice in the room."
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"text": " As one tool that we have in our toolbox, so we have our own eyes."
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"text": " You have you have me as a resource."
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"text": " You have your peers as a resource."
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"text": " They're attempting to use chat GPT to write a story."
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"text": " The love story, of course."
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"text": " Heartbreak."
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"text": " Confusion."
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"text": " And romantic relationships."
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"text": " Okay."
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"text": " You could refine that."
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"text": " I'm just trying to do this in the moment."
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"text": " The key to this exercise is the prompting."
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"text": " But it generates some responses."
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"text": " And one suggestion for revision is, as I packed away my notebook, it's pages scrolled"
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"text": " So kind of similar, but a little bit different."
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"text": " One student saying she felt like surprise, chat GPT lacked that emotional human element."
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"text": " Do you have a particular tone or style in mind?"
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"text": " Let's see, how about this style is honest?"
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"text": " Responsible use of AI is only half of what Sarah is trying to teach these students."
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"text": " Half the battle of AI is our ability as humans to discern when and how it's being used."
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"text": " To know when the thing that we interact with is another human or not."
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"text": " When we sat down and talked with Sarah about where her academic approach to AI started,"
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"text": " she references this piece that was published in the Atlantic, called the College essay is"
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"text": " And I realized that in a lot of cases, the quality of the chat, bots response was as good"
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"text": " And so at that point, I realized I'm going to have to rethink everything."
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"text": " And so she did."
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"text": " She went back to the drawing board and figured out how to shape lessons around this technology,"
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"text": " starting with how she approached her role in higher ed."
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"text": " She felt like this train was already speeding past her and it was time to run alongside"
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"text": " it, to jump aboard, and to bring along her students and her colleagues."
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"text": " We're right here on the dot at 10.30."
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"text": " We have a great session planned for you this morning."
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"text": " So I want to go ahead and just start off our time by welcoming you again to the 20th,"
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"text": " advancing teaching and learning conference."
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"text": " So she joined these virtual workshop meetings provided by the TLPDC where other Texas tech"
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"text": " Suzanne Tap was the organizer."
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"text": " She's also the Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty Success."
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"text": " Texas tech has embarked on a journey to change who we are as a university and to grow,"
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"text": " which is exciting in our aspirations to become an AAU or like institution."
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"text": " But that's changed and put also new responsibilities on faculty."
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"text": " So we have context that means that our faculty are burdened, have a different new heavy workload."
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"text": " And then we add AI, which is another truly game changer kind of moment in higher ed."
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"text": " What Suzanne does is bring professional development and resources to faculty at tech."
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"text": " designed to give faculty a roadmap to navigate this thing, this huge unpredictable, somewhat"
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"text": " So certainly it's understandable that we would have folks who are overwhelmed."
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"text": " What does this mean to me?"
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"text": " What does this mean to the way I teach?"
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"text": " Potential job loss and changes that we're dealing with."
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"text": " I think as academics, that can be really scary for us sometimes because maybe we're sitting"
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"text": " So what that might look like is a series of workshops."
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"text": " And do not want to use AI or when do you want to use AI?"
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"text": " These are all conversations that we're having."
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"text": " And I think you are so fortunate that we have faculty who are resources on campus and who"
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"text": " Think of these AI workshops as more of a think tank."
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"text": " A place for a bunch of faculty from across campus, different areas, different ages and backgrounds"
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"text": " I think my philosophy for this entire conversation is crowdsourcing."
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"text": " There is no way that I could know everything there is to know about AI."
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"text": " I'm still a newcomer to this conversation."
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"text": " So when I have a resource, have a workshop, we absolutely want it to be a jump in with"
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"text": " I think faculty will always come back to that idea of how does this match what I want"
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"text": " That's what I hope they come back to and they do."
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"text": " I hope though, that we're all thinking about it and thinking about if I choose not to"
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"text": " Our goal with our students is always to prepare them to become global citizens."
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"text": " We'll be right back."
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"text": " You may be familiar with our university magazine evermore."
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"text": " To get your copy of Evermore issue 7, go to today.ttu.edu slash evermore."
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"text": " Have you ever been scrolling through your feed and you see something that stops you in"
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"text": " That's what inspired the curriculum and Lisa Phillips college rhetoric class."
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"text": " Hi, Breena."
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"text": " Hi, Dolan."
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"text": " All right, we are ready to go and\u2026"
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"text": " Half of Lisa's students are in person."
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"text": " Oh, so I got my bachelor's in anthropology and legal writing in 1990."
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"text": " So part of the deal here is that it's very difficult to tell."
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"text": " Sitting across the table from Lisa is Matthew Bridges."
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