AI

AI but for the instructor! Francisco Olivos and colleagues document how using GAI as a “grader” promotes fairness and efficiency for essay-type grading. Learn more from this link!

“A Clingy Friend”: AI and the First Public

When I first designed an assignment called Seeing with the Machines, I wanted students to move beyond using artificial intelligence … Read More

Looking for a way to make a good use of AI in teaching and learning? This paper on “Seeing with Machines: A Reflexive Ethnography of AI Systems in Everyday Life” could help you. Resource from ASA Trails!

Check out this New York Times piece that discusses Allison Pugh’s new book and how some industries are trying to tie technology to care work or even outsourcing that work to AI. 

Fearing the Future: Reconsidering the Role of AI

I’ve recently reimagined an introductory sociology course into a digital sociology course that introduces students to social science research methods … Read More

AI in the Classroom

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are rapidly transforming the current educational landscape, with students far outrunning faculty in their use of … Read More

In this Contexts piece, Corey M. Abramson uses Mill’s Sociological Imagination to examine new ways AI can advance sociological research. The author also highlights some potential pitfalls of AI, such as erasure and abstract empiricism.

This Chronicle piece offers five ways professors can incorporate AI into their classrooms, even if they are initially skeptical. It also provides guidance on educating students about the limitations of AI to help prevent its misuse.

Grappling with AI in academic institutions? Check out this mini-lecture by @tressiemcphd as she reflects on AI, politics, and inequality, using the work by Daniel Greene “The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope.”

“[I]t’s very easy to use AI to do the lion’s share of the thinking while still submitting work that looks like your own” explains undergrad Owen Kichizo Terry in a fascinating first person account of using AI, published in The Chronicle of Higher Education.