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NIAIS Open Seminar "How do we know AI in teaching works"

January 27, 2025,1-2 PM on Zoom. No registration is required, but if you need an accomodation, contact sidorkin@csus.edu at least a week before the event.

Our guest speaker is Professor Michael Angelone. He is a full-time English professor at American River College and ARC Vice President of the Los Rios College Federation of Teachers. He has served as the faculty advisor for the nationally recognized American River Review literary magazine. He is a member of the Executive Board for Ad Lumen Press, and on the advisory committee for The Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation Center on Literary Arts, supporting initiatives that promote creativity and the arts. Outside of academia, Professor Angelone enjoys running, traveling, playing music, boating, and watching soccer.

As an early adopter of AI technologies, Professor Angelone has been experimenting with ChatGPT since its early development phases. His work focuses on integrating AI into writing classrooms to emphasize process-based learning, critical thinking, and authentic skill development. Based on his early findings, Professor Angelone explores how AI can create an aesthetic and authentic learning experience, enabling students to exercise divergent thinking rather than just convergent problem-solving. His preliminary research indicates that AI-assisted learning, when embedded within traditional curricula and guided by educators who safeguard the ethical use of large language models (LLMs), has the potential to help students not only meet but exceed learning outcomes. These early results also suggest that students are learning more about how they learn, mastering skills in innovative ways that traditional methods alone may not achieve. While his research is ongoing and acknowledges its limitations, Professor Angelone’s work offers a promising vision of how AI, used thoughtfully and ethically, can enhance student learning.

Completed

  1. Fall 2024 AI Fridays with Sasha series
  2. Summers with AI. The project supports development of specific AI-enabled tools to support student, faculty and staff success.
    • Sadaf Ashtari (Information Systems and Business Analytics) AI-Policy Navigator: Transforming Policy Accessibility and Clarity at Sacramento State. Completed
    • Pooria Assadi (Management and Organizations) AI-Powered Admission Assistant to COB MBA, and IMBA Programs. Completed
    • Basia Ellis (Undergraduate Studies in Education) Revitalizing My Sac State App. Completed
    • Rohollah Moghadam (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) Pre-Advising Electrical Engineering Conversational AI bot (PA-EE bot) Completed
  3. Open Seminar "Integrating prompt engineering skills into a course." The recording.
  4. Open seminar "Is Leapfrogging Effect Real? Cognitive dimensions of AI-positive pedagogy." The recording.
  5. Summarizing interview transcripts for the University Library.
  6. Launching the Resource page with presentations, guides and tools
  7. EdAI Arxiv launch. This open-access preprint publishes successful cases of using AI in classrooms and other areas of the educational enterprise.
  8. AI Fridays with Sasha series for staff.
  9. Faculty Survey on AI use, Spring 2024.