There Will Be Doughnuts: Playing with Generative AI Tools to Build Community
Publication Date
5-21-2024
Conference/Sponsorship/Institution
Keystone DH 2024
Description
In Spring 2023, Bucknell’s L&IT division began engaging with colleagues across the University in discussions about teaching and learning in an era of generative AI. The paradigm-shifting arrival of ChatGPT made faculty alternately horrified and gleeful of the opportunities at hand. Some faculty immediately began to teach with various AI tools, others started small AI translation businesses to supplement income, and some wanted to ban the tool in their courses outright. Our very first session on generative AI coincided with the first day of work for a new colleague in our Digital Scholarship department.
We’re all familiar with the ongoing challenge of keeping up with the pace of change in generative AI services. This Works-In-Progression session will highlight the efforts of Library and IT staff and scholars at Bucknell in engaging our campus and creating multiple avenues of campus discourse, experimentation, and play. From coffee chats to learning communities, policy groups, and student partnerships, our work grew to the first of what may become an annual regional AI Conference scheduled for early May 2024.
We will review the various formats, strategies, and techniques attempted, and discuss both successes and failures in engagement. We’ll also discuss how being new (in so many ways) helps with the success of innovative programs. We plan to query the audience using polling software about what worked on their campuses (and why). We will then create, in real time, a crowdsourced collection of ideas and feedback to produce a toolkit for participants to use in their own Fall 2024 campus programming.
Type
Presentation
Link to published version
https://keystonedh.network/2024/abstracts.html
Recommended Citation
Furlong, Katherine and Tuley, Kate, "There Will Be Doughnuts: Playing with Generative AI Tools to Build Community" (2024). Faculty Conference Papers and Presentations. 88.
https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/fac_conf/88
