Integrating Generative AI into Higher Education, an Interview with Alexa Alice Joubin

Alexa Alice Joubin shares innovative and responsible ways to integrate generative AI into the humanities classroom in her interview with George Washington University Libraries & Academic Innovation. She uses the open-access ChatGPT 3.5 to teach students critical questioning skills, meta-cognition, and digital literacy.
00:30 Teaching innovation with generative AI
01:07 Using ChatGPT 3.5 to learn critical questioning skills
01:30 Alternative questions
01:56 Modeling best practices
02:24 Teaching students to become intelligent users of new technologies
03:09 Suggestions to AI skeptics
04:05 Demonstrating how fun and rewarding learning can be
Alexa Alice Joubin directs the Digital Humanities Institute and is a faculty of the GW Trustworthy AI Initiative, an affiliate at the NSF's Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS), and the inaugural Public Interest Technology Scholar. She is Professor of English, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Theatre, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.