Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning by Jose Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson.
Bowen holds a PhD from Stanford in musicology and humanities. Watson holds a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from Virginia Tech.
The general aim of the book is to address AI in education. Regrettably the book takes very broad brush stokes on a fast moving technology. As a result, they have missed an opportunity. It appears to many that a rush of books addressing AI in education has been underway since the introduction of ChatGPT.
Unfortunately the book misses key, critical requirements for AI integration into workflows, business thinking, and how practical strategies for faculty to leverage AI within the classroom.
The book is divided into three sections:
First, Thinking with AI is very much a basic AI 101 course with broad overviews to how work, literacy and creativity will be shaped by AI. Second, Teaching with AI is focusing on how AI will assist faculty but is not able to address how facutly at a private four year college would be for factuly teaching at a public two year college. Again, lots of broad brush strokes. Finally, Learning with AI is exploring the feedback and how AI can design assignments for students, how AI will change student writing and also assessments.
First generation AI books are already obsolete
AI’s marketplace is imature and changing fast as major IT firms are aligning with OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft to fight for a seat at the AI table. At the same time colleges are also not able to adjust their polices and academic committees are struggling to even learn AI 101.
So this book is just more about planting a flag as it lack the details colleges require including how any faculty senate will view AI-driven curriculum changes in the rush for the upcoming fall semester. Another attempt to address AI and education was published by Priten Shah and also misses the mark.
In conclusion, it will remain somewhat impossible to faculty to have traditional books addressing AI due to the the fluid AI marketplace.