Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow essential is AI Literacy in educational institutions? To what degree should institutions provide access to AI tools for their faculty and students? Can training students to be more AI literate equip them to use AI more effectively? Join Rob and Jared as they chat with Dr. Jodie Penrod (Chief Information Officer at Marshall University) about the importance of AI literacy and access at higher education institutions. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: AI Literacy – Kickoff
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat is AI Literacy? How important is it for students to be “AI literate”? How can teachers help students develop the necessary skills to enter a workforce where the need for AI Literacy is growing ? Join Rob and Jared as they start our new series on AI Literacy. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: Student Perspectives – Usage of AI with Caroline and Caleb
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow are current college students using AI in their academics? Where are they finding it useful? How are they attempting to approach using it ethically? Join Rob and Jared as they discuss AI usage with two more current students, Caroline and Caleb. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: Needle Movers – Dr. Michele Dodds
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow has AI changed nursing practices and patient care? What can educators do to leverage AI to train nursing students for their future careers? In this episode, Rob and Jared chat with Dr. Michele Dodds about how she is “moving the needle” through using AI to train future healthcare professionals. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: Applying Psychology to Practice with Dr. Stephen Aguilar
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat information about their success can motivate a student’s learning? What shouldn’t be shared? What roles can learning mastery and Generative AI play in motivation? How much feedback is too much for students, and what type works best? Join Rob and Jared as they chat with Dr. Stephen Aguilar (Associate Professor of Education at USC) to answer these questions and more. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: Student Perspectives – Usage of AI
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow are current college students using AI in their academics? Where are they finding it useful? What limitations do they see? Join Rob and Jared as they discuss how students are using AI with current students Kaiya and Jude. Please take this opportunity to fill out our 2025 wrap-up survey. This survey should take 5-10 minutes and your responses are anonymous. If you would like to be entered for the Uncommon Sense Teaching drawing, you can share your name and email address at the end of the survey. Even if you enter the drawing, your survey response will remain anonymous. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: Book Review – “Teach Like a Human” with Dr. Dave Mulder
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow do Christian educators approach Generative AI with caution? How can educators find the balance between using GAI as a tool and having it take over their teaching? In this episode, Rob and Jared chat with Dr. Dave Mulder about his new book Teach Like a Human. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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How I Used ChatGPT to Reimagine “Introduction to Literature”
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen I was asked to teach a face-to-face section of LIT-2300 this semester, I was a bit hesitant. While I have experience teaching literature to high schoolers, I had never taught it at the college level. With the campus-wide subscription of OpenAI’s ChatGPT EDU in place, I decided to integrate AI not as a grading shortcut or a novelty (although a Gatsby bot that appends every answer with “old sport” is very tempting), but as a teaching assistant. Using a dedicated ChatGPT project (“LIT-2300 TA Bot), I developed lectures, discussions, and creative learning materials grounded in Cedarville’s theological framework. My first steps were to start like any…
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Student Perspectives: GenAI and the General Writing Major
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn August, Cedarville University became the first evangelical Christian university to implement campus-wide educational ChatGPT. This has been met with a lot of different responses—enthusiasm, fear, disdain, apathy. I know some people who use it for everything. I know others who would equate AI use as an unforgivable sin. I’m Sophie, a senior studying Professional Writing and Information Design, and I land somewhere in the middle, if a bit on the “less AI” side. But there are some specific contexts where I do (or do not) use genAI—so let’s take a look at those! In my education The first day of class, all of my professors banned…
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Highlights from OpenAI on Campus: 5 Takeaways
Reading Time: 3 minutesOpenAI was on campus earlier this week to run some training sessions for both staff and faculty about how to effectively use ChatGPT in your workflow. Sessions covered everything from prompt engineering to effectively using the various tools accessible through our Cedarville workspace. We’ve got a quick recap of the biggest takeaways from the sessions, so let’s dive right in. Set up your personalization/memories settings This is super simple to set up! When logged in to ChatGPT, click on your name in the bottom left corner, then click “Personalization.” From there, you can enable customization, set the style and tone ChatGPT uses when responding, add custom instructions…