Summary
Professor Acar introduces the Pair Framework, advocating for AI as a learning collaborator to enhance student skills like problem-solving, critical thinking, and emotional intelligence. The framework focuses on problem formulation, exploration, and reflection, with steps including problem identification, AI tool selection, interaction, and reflection. An example with social work students illustrates how AI tools like Chat GPT can assist in research, idea refinement, and critical reflection, culminating in individual reflective reports on AI tool usage and its broader implications.
Introduction to Pair Framework
Introduction to the Pair Framework by Professor Acar that encourages the use of AI as a learning collaborator, demonstrating how AI tools can help students with research, communication, creativity, and reflection.
Five Essential Skills for Responsible AI Use
Overview of the five essential skills that the Pair Framework seeks to develop in students: problem formulation, exploration, critical thinking, reflection, and dealing with emotional reactions when engaging with AI systems.
Pair Framework Steps
Explanation of the four steps in the Pair Framework: problem identification, AI tool selection, interaction, and reflection, highlighting the importance of encouraging students to use AI tools responsibly.
Implementation of Pair Framework
Illustration of how the Pair Framework can be implemented in practice, using a 1-hour teaching session with final year undergraduate students for a social work module assignment on the impact of AI on social justice.
Interaction Stage with Chat GPT
Demonstration of how students can interact with Chat GPT to generate research questions, refine ideas for essays, and create outlines, emphasizing the importance of critical reflection on the outputs.
Reflective Reports and Final Steps
Explanation of the final steps in the Pair Framework, including writing individual reflective reports analyzing the use of AI tools, overcoming challenges, and reflecting on the broader implications of using AI in their discipline and society.
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