AI in Geoscience Education
The emergence of transformer-based AI models, such as ChatGPT in 2022, has changed the pedagogical landscape in ways we are only beginning to understand. Exploration of these changes is taking place in a range of venues and scales; from coverage in popular media, and institutional initiatives, to individual instructors developing new AI policies to include in their syllabi. This site focuses specifically on the experience of geoscience educators. It is a space where the geoscience education community can share our collective experience of how AI, and in particular generative AI, is impacting what and how we teach.
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- Can AI make my work as an educator easier?
- How do I guide my students in using AI appropriately and ethically?
- How is AI impacting geoscience as a discipline?
For now, you'll find a brief sketch of some of these major issues as we see them. We've included references to deeper reading and opportunities to share your perspective. We hope to grow this site to reflect the best thinking from across the broader geoscience education community as we all navigate this new terrain.
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What do we mean by AI? Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around as a field for more than 70 years and encompasses a broad range of approaches. On this site we are focusing largely on transformer-based "generative" AI that burst onto the scene in 2022 with language-focused tools like ChatGPT and image generation tools like DALL-E. The impact of AI in the geosciences predates these tools, and a variety of machine learning approaches are already an important part of the teaching toolkit in many areas of geoscience. For brevity, this site uses 'AI' as a shorthand to refer specifically to the transformer-based generative models that are the current focus of attention in education for their impact on pedagogy -- except in places where we explicitly mention the broader set of machine learning tools relevant to geoscience research.