AI and the First Day of Class

Brent A. Anders, Ph.D.
EduCreate
Published in
5 min readAug 15, 2023

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Professor/teacher wearing an OpenAI sweater and students from the class raise their right hands in celebration in front of a chalkboard that has “AI” written on it.
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Generative AI, such as ChatGPT, is an extremely important topic in education and as such needs to be addressed on the first day of school. The following are three important things to do/cover on the very first day of your class in order to set up a successful rest of the semester. This article is geared toward higher education but the main points will be applicable for K-12 as well.

  1. Go Over the University’s “AI

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Brent A. Anders, Ph.D.
EduCreate

Anders has worked in higher academia for over 20 years, focusing on educational methodologies, motivation, media, AI, & instructional technologies.