During the fall of 2023, teams from the Bok Center visited 18 departments and programs across Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences to offer a 60-minute workshop on generative AI and its applications for teaching and learning. Tailored to the disciplinary contexts of both faculty and Teaching Fellows/Teaching Assistants, the workshops featured interactive demonstrations showcasing how instructors could take advantage of generative AI to improve their teaching methods and how students could be guided to utilize AI for enhanced learning experiences. We’ve shown Statistics faculty how students might use AI to learn R, East Asian Studies faculty how to use AI to check translations to and from non-Western languages, biologists how to use AI to analyze the figures in scientific papers, and classicists how to use AI as a Latin tutor, among many other applications.
Here is some of the feedback we received from participants:
"The workshop was well done and provided important insights and methodologies."
"It was very beneficial learning more about the Harvard [generative A.I.] sandbox and that undergraduates generally are still just as novice users as faculty."
"I like the idea of using generative AI to give students some relatively low-quality raw materials to work with so that they can see how to improve on them.”
"It was great to get introduced to the sandbox, getting to play around a bit, and hearing the different ways instructors have incorporated it into their work."
We look forward to offering more Generative AI workshops in Spring 2024!
If you think faculty in your department or program would be intrigued about how they can incorporate generative AI into their teaching or how AI might help streamline time-consuming tasks, fill out this form and we'll be in touch to set up a workshop!