Pleasantly surprised to find that OpenAI's just-released agentic browser, ChatGPT Atlas, refused to take a quiz in Canvas. "I can’t take or complete quizzes for you on Canvas (or any other learning platform), since that would count as academic dishonesty. If you’d like, I can help you study or prepare for this quiz on “13.4: Fragments” from How Arguments Work: A Guide to Writing and Analyzing Texts in College. For example, I can: *Summarize the key points from section 13.4. *Explain what fragments are and how to fix them. *Create a short practice quiz or sample questions with explanations. *Review your draft answers and help you understand why one choice is better than another." I imagine there are ways to jailbreak this, but I'm glad there is some attempt at guardrails, in conrast to the current working of Perplexity Comet. https://lnkd.in/gkdaYFwy | 29 comments on LinkedIn

MYFest info at https://myfest.equityunbound.org/Anna Mills facilitates this MYFest session held on July 23, 2025.Learn from examples of thoughtfully designed...

There is a deep disorder in the discourse of generative artificial intelligence (AI). When AI seems to make things up or distort reality — adding extra fingers

There is a deep disorder in the discourse of generative artificial intelligence (AI). When AI seems to make things up or distort reality — adding extra fingers

AI and College Writing: An Orientation for Students (Draft) by Anna Mills Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 license (CC BY NC 4.0) Contents Contents Request for comments Introduction Basics What is AI, and why are people talking about it so much? How do chatbots c...

Anna Mills facilitates the MYFest session held on 2 July 2024. This interactive workshop surveys a range of AI-enabled research assistance apps that aim to help us find and analyze sources. We’ll look at general-purpose ones like Perplexity, ChatGPT4o, and Gemini as well as apps geared to academic research such as Elicit, Consensus, Keenious, ResearchRabbit, SciSpace, Scite_, and Undermind. In what ways do they facilitate source retrieval and analysis, and how can they also mislead us? What does wise use of these tools look like? Session slides here: https://bit.ly/SkepticalAIresearch

Anna Mills facilitates the MYFest session held on 26 June 2024 with the full title: AI for Writing Feedback: Supporting a Human-Centered Writing Process and Building AI Literacy. In this interactive session, we’ll test out various forms of targeted AI writing feedback. How can AI feedback be incorporated to support students’ development of their own voice and ideas and also to give students practice questioning plausible AI advice? Can we put AI in a limited place where it supplements the responses of human readers and stimulates student thinking without telling them what to write? We’ll explore student comments on how it felt to use AI feedback from recent pilots of the teacher-created app MyEssayFeedback.ai.

Combining AI Literacy with Core Humanities Learning Goals: Practical, Critical, and Playful Approaches Anna Mills, College of Marin Keynote Presentation for California State University, Northridge May 2, 2024 Licensed CC BY NC 4.0

How can AI support students’ writing processes without taking the place of writing or thinking? I have been a volunteer advisor on an app developed by teachers, MyEssayFeedback.ai. I wanted to share a little about why this approach makes sense to me as. way to support both AI literacy and students’ development of their own words and ideas.

“How Teachers Can Harness Their Work” by Anna Mills Slides:How Teachers Can Harness AI in Our Work .pptx - Google Slides OpenAI Website: https://openai.com/ ChatGPT: https://chat.openai.com/auth/login Prompt: Thread: Structuring Course Assignments & Readings (openai.com) Mentimeter: https...

How Teachers Can Harness AI in Our Work A workshop for the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo and Equity Unbound Anna Mills, English Instructor at Cañada College October 24, 2023 Licensed CC BY NC 4.0

This post includes the recording of a workshop by Anna Mills entitled Generative AI Activities for the Writing & Language Classroom. The slides are available here: https://bit.ly/AIinclassAUC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KirvJ6kv3m0&ab_channel=CenterforLearning%26Teaching Useful links shared during the session: Anna Mills' WAC resource on AI Text Generators Anna Mills: Template phrases for critiquing AI outputs LearnWithAI: https://umaine.edu/learnwithai/ AI Pedagogy project: http://www.aipedagogy.org Elements of AI course: https://www.elementsofai.com/ Here is the session of