Meg Mittelstadt

Georgia’s focus on teaching culture is ambitious and unusual — especially for an R1 university. It’s much easier to add a new program for students or emphasize a core skill in the curriculum. chroni.cl/4a6xt3d

Check out this feature from the Chronicle of Higher Education on our efforts to embrace a culture of active learning at UGA!

Excited to give the keynote for @universityofga’s Active Learning Summit organized by @UGAInstruction

#AcademicTwitter What examples do you have of beautiful, simple, clear #syllabi, not "terms of service" but maybe an overview of the course that is inviting, visually appealing, conceptually clear? Not the boilerplate contractual stuff, but the noble pedagogical learning part.

From Assignment Makeovers in the AI Age (derekbruff.org/?p=4083) - love the "Reading Memo" idea from McGunnigle-Gonzales: 1. What new thing have u learned? 2. What new thing can u explain? 3. What new question do u have? 4. What random something caught your attention?

Our Special Collections Fellows at @RussellLibrary are hard at work learning how to integrate archives into their curriculum. Here are some pictures of what they have been up to so far!

You can ask a language model to explain why it gave a particular output, and it will answer, but its answer is just another language prediction. It may not actually reflect the reasons. This study shows LLMs make up justifications when influenced by engineers' tweaks.

I just discovered @TracieAddy's vignette videos of inclusive teaching practices and I'm stoked! It's so hard to find high quality videos of instructors actually teaching, rather than talking about their teaching as a talking head. inclusiveteachingvisualization.com/social-science…

Whew, this sentence is an excellent button: "By avoiding taking a position on truth, ChatGPT can be fine-tuned to give users the answers they prefer." Great article from @alisonjhead and Barbara Fister abt info literacy and ChatGPT: insidehighered.com/opinion/views/…

@AmateurViking @HarvardHSPH @universityofga Welcome to UGA! I made the Harvard/Longwood to Athens, GA transition six years ago, with an almost one-year-old in tow. If you need anything, don't hesitate to reach out!

Delighted to (finally) share that I'll be leaving @HarvardHSPH in June to join @universityofga as an assistant professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine (go Dawgs!). It's been a fantastic 8 years in Cambridge, but I'm excited for this new chapter in our lives.

Useful report from UNESCO on ChatGPT/AI use in #highered ChatGPT-and-Artificial-Intelligence-in-higher-education-Quick-Start-guide_EN_FINAL.pdf (unesco.org) lnkd.in/ejBjvd3D I love this flowchart on p.6 and will use it in class!

It's the end of #HonorsWeek and we want to congratulate all the students and faculty across UGA that received recognition for their work! We're so proud to support you in all of your academic achievements!

@vgonlin Love to see this!! Congratulations!!

You are looking at one of UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences' 2022-23 Outstanding Teaching Award recipients! Nominated and voted on by students and faculty. One of my students was at the reception and said, "Dr. Gonlin, I'm so proud of you"!! ❤️😭🙏🏼

@NoraCBenedict Congratulations, Nora! Well deserved!!

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We're having fun with play dough today! LTF retreat '23

We had a Big Foot sighting at the 2023 Lilly Teaching Fellows retreat! @UnicoiStatePark

A survey of articles on ChatGPT in education concludes that "the student voice was missing from almost all the articles" and recommends surveys and focus groups on how "students are engaging with ChatGPT and similar generative AI tools." journals.sfu.ca/jalt/index.php…

OpenAI is releasing ChatGPT as an API, meaning 1000s of developers will be integrating it into their apps. Snapchat is already on the list, so is Quizlet. We’re about to see Edtech dive into generative AI. We must teach students AI literacy now engadget.com/openai-will-le…

Oh my goodness... Lilly Fellows, just you wait until Daniel's workshop on Friday!! Perfection.