Teaching and Generative AI: 

Pedagogical Possibilities and Productive Tensions

Beth Buyserie, Ph.D., & Travis N. Thurston, Ph.D.

With the rapid development of Generative AI, teachers are experiencing a new pedagogical challenge—one that promises to forever change the way we approach teaching and learning. As a response to this unprecedented teaching context, Teaching and Generative AI: Pedagogical Possibilities and Productive Tensions provides interdisciplinary teachers, librarians, and instructional designers with practical and thoughtful pedagogical resources for navigating the possibilities and challenges of teaching in an AI era. Because our goal with this edited collection is to present nuanced discussions of AI technology across disciplines, the chapters collectively acknowledge or explore both possibilities and tensions—including the strengths, limitations, ethical considerations, and disciplinary potential and challenges—of teaching in an AI era. As such, the authors in this collection do not simply praise or criticize AI, but thoughtfully acknowledge and explore its complexities within educational settings. 


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Foreword

Tazin Daniels

Introduction

Beth Buyserie and Travis N. Thurston

SECTION I: FRAMING CONCEPTS

Chapter 1: Navigating the New Frontier of Generative AI in Peer Review and Academic Writing

Chris Mayer

Chapter 2: Some Ethical Considerations for Teaching and Generative AI in Higher Education

Lydia Wilkes

Chapter 3: Empowering Educators in the Age of Generative AI: A Critical Media Literacy Approach

Ali Söken and Kysa Nygreen

Chapter 4: Developing Media and Information Literacy through Dialogues about AI

Rosa Thornley and Dory Rosenberg

Chapter 5: Navigating Benefits and Concerns When Discussing GenAI Tools with Faculty and Staff

Reed Hepler

SECTION II: RESEARCH STUDIES

Chapter 6: More is Less?: Using Generative AI for Idea Generation and Diversification in Early Writing Processes

Franziska Tsufim and Lainie Pomerleau

Chapter 7: Automated Aid or Offloading Close Reading? Student Perspectives on AI Reading Assistants

Marc Watkins

Chapter 8: AI and Writing Classrooms: A Study of Purposeful Use and Student Responses to the Technology

Laura Dumin

Chapter 9: Uses, Benefits, and Limitations of AI Chatbots: Implementing ChatGPT in the First-Year Writing Classroom

Walker P. Smith; Lydia Peach; Parker Routt; Kolby Sanders; Jacob Morris; Josh Vogeler; Cora Alward; and Veronica Pulley

SECTION III: RACE AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES

Chapter 10: Broadening Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Education to Include Indigenous Ways of Knowing

Megan Hamilton

Chapter 11: Race Against the Machine

Samantha K. Yoder

Chapter 12: Cultural Reproduction: AIs Interrupting the Cultural Healing Work of Teachers

Belinda 'Ofakihevahanoa Fotu

Chapter 13: Rude Reflections: Current AI Acts as a Mirror of Our Flawed Society

Belinda 'Ofakihevahanoa Fotu

Chapter 14: Indigenous Futures in Generative Artificial Intelligence: The Paradox of Participation

Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera; J. Kaleo Alladin; Melissa Tehee; and Breanne K. Litts

Chapter 15: Co-Creating Intersectional Design Narratives with AI

Ha Nguyen

Chapter 16: Use of AI in Teaching Social Statistics or Data Analysis

Mudasir Mustafa

Chapter 17: Epistemological Clash: AI and Ways of Knowing

Emma Mecham

Chapter 18: Cheating as Symptom, not Disease

Adena Rivera-Dundas

SECTION IV: HUMANIZING TECHNOLOGY

Chapter 19: Wrestling with A.I.

Catherine J. Denial

Chapter 20: Fit to Resist in Post-Product Space:  Underserved Student Populations and Generative AI’s Writing Norms

John Paul Tassoni

Chapter 21: My Summer with ChatGPT

Mary Lourdes Silva

Chapter 22: Examining Ways of Using AI to Better Support Teaching Faculty, Mitigate Burnout, and Increase Teaching Creativity

Jennifer Grewe

SECTION V: TEACHING RESOURCES

Chapter 23: Cake-Making Analogy for Setting Generative AI Guidelines/Ethics

Maha Bali

Chapter 24: Revisioning a Bibliography Assignment to Center Discovery and Critical Source Engagement

Lillian Campbell; Jenna Green; and Nicole Bungert

Chapter 25: Using the AI Explainpaper to Help Students Better Understand Journal Articles

Erin Jensen and Daniel Hutchinson

Chapter 26: Working Alongside, Not Against, AI Writing Tools in the Composition Classroom: a Dialectical Retrospective

Daniel Frank and Jennifer K. Johnson

Chapter 27: Pushing Past the First Draft: Exercises in Revision

Jacob Taylor

Chapter 28: Creating Constitutions with ChatGPT

Julia M. Gossard

Chapter 29: An AI Workshop for the Overwhelmed and Uninterested

Ritamarie Hensley

Chapter 30: Revising LLM Text to (Re)Discover Rhetoric in a Graduate Seminar

Clancy Ratliff

Chapter 31: Collaborative Writing and AI: A Research Assignment for an Undergraduate Professional Communication Course

Beth Buyserie

SECTION VI: DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES

Chapter 32: Using Generative AI in the Music History Classroom

Reba Wissner

Chapter 33: ChatGPT Assistance in Creating Chemistry Practice Problems: Pitfalls, Positives, and Possibilities

Michael A. Christiansen

Chapter 34: “Language Weaves Its Tapestry”: Crafting Found Poetry Using AI Tools

Ruth Li

Chapter 35: Using Generative AI to Perform Stacked Evaluations of Educational Documents: Provoking Students to Think on Successively Higher Levels

Susan Codone

This book serves as a guide for college instructors who find themselves at the cusp of this technological revolution—those who are intrigued yet perhaps apprehensive, eager to explore yet unsure where to begin...As you delve into the pages of this book, you are invited to explore the vast potential of generative AI to revolutionize teaching and learning while grappling with the ethical and societal questions it raises.
Tazin Daniels, PhD
Associate Director, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan

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Buyserie, B., & Thurston, T.N. (Eds.). (2024). Teaching and generative AI: Pedagogical possibilities and productive tensions. Utah State University.

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