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UMass Law Librarian Katelyn Golsby presented a workshop on using ChatGPT in the classroom.

UMass Law Public Services Law Librarian & Part-Time Lecturer Katelyn Golsby presented a workshop on using ChatGPT in the classroom at UMass Dartmouth’s New Approaches to Teaching & Learning (NATL) Conference. The conference brought UMass Dartmouth colleagues together to ask, “How can we use AI to enhance teaching while keeping learning, equity, and human connection at the center?” The conference was a campus-focused day where faculty, staff, and administrators share concrete strategies, examples from real courses and services, and space to share ideas.

During her presentation, Chit Chat with ChatGPT: Comparing AI Outputs in a Collaborative Setting, Katelyn taught professors how to implement ChatGPT in their classroom by creating a collaborative activity through which students can compare results and appraise information provided by free-to-use large language models. Katelyn provided sample prompts for legal and cross-disciplinary subjects and taught some best practices for creating appropriate prompts. The goal of the presentation was to have participants learn how using this type of implementation makes students aware of the challenges in using AI and how they can successfully identify and overcome those challenges.