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Abstract
The reputation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a university setting often has negative associations and is not a welcomed guest in the classroom. Faculty meeting discussions about AI use in the classroom typically focus on efforts to detect and eliminate it. As faculty we use software and test proctoring to discover attempts of AI use and identify plans to deal with AIs negative uses, but AI can be our ally.
The purpose of this presentation is to share the AI generated practice activity as a teaching tool, demonstrate positive uses of AI in teaching and provide information to the audience on additional benefits of AI’s use for practice. During Fall 2024 faculty-initiated use of AI to reinforce classroom content for pediatric students at the Kinney College of Nursing. As a result of using of the practice sets from AI, students demonstrated improved understanding and had decreasing unease over difficult content. Pediatric cardiac content has historically been perceived as some of the most difficult content in the course and students request additional guidance on how best to study this content area. In preparation for the cardiac unit, I planned to utilize Chat GPT to develop additional practice content to support students needs. The success and reception of the practice content was so positively received that it led to additional AI practice content for all subsequent units. Informal feedback received included how students felt the AI generated practice sets enhanced their understanding of challenging course content and that they applied the concepts in the rationales during their studying and on the exam. The students then requested similar content for subsequent units.
Details: Using AI and working with content settings a series of NCLEX style undergraduate level nursing questions were constructed based off lecture material, textbook and imported lecture PowerPoints and unit learning objectives were uploaded. The initial question sets generated were reviewed by faculty for content accuracy, bias, and appropriateness. Then AI was instructed to list more details including rationales for both correct and incorrect answers. The practice question sets placed on presentation slides, students were given time to review, then the answers and rationales were given several days later.
Challenges: AI generated questions are not always one hundred percent usable and need to be reviewed thoroughly, rationales were detailed for the right answer but lacked details for some wrong answers.
Lessons learned: some students stated they already did this on their own while others had never tried it, if including a new resource be prepared to cover all units as this will be requested.
Other findings: AI also has ability to create unfolding case studies.