AI literacy is going to be a critical skill for our students. We want to support them in the ethical and responsible use of GenAI during their studies at BU, so we need to provide information and guidance around some of the key challenges, such as data privacy, academic integrity, and ethical issues.

How can you support your students with GenAI?

FLIE have created a series of exercises that you can use with your students to help develop their AI literacy. Each exercise is designed to be led within a classroom environment with students undertaking a guided hands-on activity, improving skills such as prompting and evaluating AI output, and promoting open discussions around some of the benefits and challenges of these tools.

Where can I find the exercises?

The student exercises sit with our AI literacy training module on Brightspace. We’ve provided all the background information you need to run these confidently. Each worksheet incorporates a different exercise and follows the same format, including:

• any preparation you might need to do in advance of the session for your particular subject discipline
• clear steps on how to run the session
• the opportunities and risks to highlight to students
• an example prompt for your students to use.

What if students aren’t comfortable with using GenAI?

Students should never be forced to use AI tools; they may have legitimate data privacy or ethical concerns. These resources contain some strategies to address this. Also included is a set of slides to introduce the session to students which outlines some of the key principles when using GenAI tools and points them to supporting resources.

Share your ideas with us

Have you already done similar exercises with AI with your students? We’d love to hear about your experience – contact your Faculty Learning Technologist so we can include your examples in our bank of resources!

AI Literacy exercises for use with students