Tonight I watched the QM session “The AI Empowered Instructional Designer.” Steve Kaufman form the University of Akron was the presenter. They shared a GoogleDoc at bit.ly/ai-empowered-id Kaufman spoke about DeepSeek as a disruptor in the AI industry. Kaufman also emphasized using AI to make us all more connected and literate. Several examples in the news and hesitations around AI were shared. While cheating was mentioned, so was student privacy. Kaufman did a live demo of NotebookLM from Google to summarize the QM Rubric. NotebookLM can create outlines, podcasts, briefing documents… Kaufman played two minutes of a podcast it created for the QM Rubric. The audio was great, and the information was shared in a conversation between two co-hosts. Kaufman suggested using NotebookLM for students to create podcasts about their resumes. Kaufman also noted that NotebookLM has a Discord channel. Chatbot Arena allows for users to compare AI models. One use case Kaufman noted was for students to factcheck the AI and compare results. Kaufman used Synthesia was to create virtual avatars and short instructional materials. A participant brought up an important consideration: what message does using AI to create student-facing videos send? Another consideration was how to address instructor AI use and student AI policies.
