Presentation about Coding, Creativity and Confidence in the Generative Artificial Intelligence Era
Published: 25 September 2024
Catherine Reid and Tiffany Vlaar (School of Mathematics and Statistics) presented on behalf of their team at the Lovelace Hodgkins Symposium on AI Ethics, discussing their Crucible-funded research into how students from different disciplines understand AI.
Catherine Reid and Tiffany Vlaar (School of Mathematics and Statistics) presented on behalf of their research team at the Lovelace Hodgkins Symposium on AI Ethics (https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/datascience/events/lovelace-hodgkinsymposium/), discussing their Crucible-funded research into how students from different disciplines understand AI, and how they can encourage AI usage that supports creativity, confidence and understanding. They discussed how Gen-AI usage may pose new challenges to students’ learning process for solving coding problems. They proposed an intervention to empower the use of AI without loss of problem-solving expertise, avoid the blind use of these tools, and promote the joy of learning and described how this intervention would explore current students’ understanding of AI and serve as a basis for developing new pedagogies with relevance for both higher education and beyond.
First published: 25 September 2024