Faculty Guide to AI Literacy in the Age of ChatGPT

Discuss the use of ChatGPT with students

You can help students care about being transparent in their use of AI. Discuss ChatGPT and create a policy for whether and how to use it. 

• Here are some ideas from the University of Kent: How should we talk to students about Generative AI?
• You can refer back to the ChatGPT and Pedagogy page of this guide.
   

Help students understand why giving credit is important

This short video from The Learning Portal focuses on why it's important to give credit to the work of others. 

"Why You Need to Cite Sources" by The Learning Portal is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Go beyond traditional citations

Professor Ethan Mollick (Wharton School), recommends going beyond traditional citations. In the article below, he asks his students to include an appendix to their papers, where they list each prompt they used in ChatGPT and discuss how they revised those prompts to get better output. 

Standard Citation guidelines

Here are the standard guidelines for citing generative AI.

It's also worth reading this advice, since some uses don't fit the standard way of citing:

To learn what plagiarism is, how to avoid it, and the consequences of committing it, see the MJC Library's research guide entitled, "How to Avoid Plagiarism."