For this month’s podcast recommendation, we suggest an episode entitled Harnessing AI: A Toolkit For Success In Work & Learning from the Innovative Educators Friday 5 Live! podcast featuring host Ms. Meg Foster. She is a First-Year Experience Instructor and Academic Coach at Piedmont Virginia Community College. The Friday 5 Live! series are live sessions that participants can join which are then recorded and shared as podcast episodes for others to listen to later.

The episode we suggest for this month is focused on artificial intelligence as a learning tool. The host, Meg Foster, discusses five questions related to AI with Jean Mandernach, who is a Research Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Innovation in Research and Teaching at Grand Canyon University. 

This episode is a great starting point for instructors looking to enter into the conversation about Artificial Intelligence. The discuss some of the most commonly used LLMs, like ChatGPT and Bard. They discuss the cost of these tools and some features that are available with paid versions. Meg and Jean discuss examples of how to use these tools in the classroom. This is a great conversation about AI and the classroom to check out!

Visit the podcast website to listen or find it wherever you get your regular podcasts!