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Planned, Structured, Supervised Student-AI Interaction

Teaching and Learning

… demonstrate their analytical skills, metacognitive skills (awareness of their own thinking), and ability to integrate … more targeted prompt or piece of feedback to guide the AI toward deeper or more accurate insights. This cycle repeats … student reflection continues either until goals are met (as set up by the instructor during the design of the activity) …

https://wmich.edu/x/teaching-learning/teaching-resources/student-ai-interaction

Frequently Asked Questions

Institutional Equity

… to WMU Public Safety a crime or incident they become aware of. This includes sexual violence and hate/bias crimes. … collection of campus crime data as well as promote crime awareness and enhance safety. Contact WMU Public Safety for … a process in which employers identify areas of improvement, set goals, and take positive steps to enhance opportunities …

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Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Reports

Assessment

… of assessment at WMU. As a result, the report format was re-evaluated by the UASC in 2015. Changes were … deans to streamline the process, and ensure the data was relevant and actionable, and a new template was created. … members of the University Assessment Steering Committee set up four sub-committees to review the reports, prepare …

https://wmich.edu/assessment/institutional-slo-reports

What you need to know about assessment

Assessment

… suggests areas in which improvement can be made. In this way, faculty and staff become engaged in the learning … impact faculty/staff evaluation? WMU has stated from the outset that assessment results will not be used to evaluate … faculty who are doing effective assessment should be rewarded no matter what the outcome of the data. It is …

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News Archives

World Religions and Cultures

… News Archives News Archives Congratulations to our award-winning students . Zachary Smith is awarded the Graduate College Department Research and Creative … it. E-mail  Dr. Covell . Our current graduate students have set the bar high. In addition to winning the all-university …

https://wmich.edu/religion/about/news-archives

History of Physics at WMU

Physics

… traces its history to 1904, when instruction began at what was then Western State Normal School. Physics was taught, along with chemistry, under the auspices of the … and other modern teaching tools. A small planetarium was set up in a basement storage room for astronomy classes. It …

https://wmich.edu/physics/about/history

Archived book clubs

Study of Ethics in Society

… religious and cultural influences to address a set of guiding questions. These include: What constitutes a … of Machine Thinking by Shannon Vallor . In this book, the award-winning philosopher who used to be Google’s AI ethicist suggests that the best way to think of AI is as a mirror, rather than a mind. When …

https://wmich.edu/ethics/book-club-archive

Guidelines for Stewarding our Institutional Voice

Office of the President

… Guidelines for Stewarding our Institutional Voice The Western Michigan … ingredients in our ability to accomplish that mission. Stewardship of free speech and academic freedom requires that … research and creative scholarship. The guidelines set forth in this document formalize and clarify our …

https://wmich.edu/president/leadership/institutional-voice

Free Speech

Free Speech

… as flag-burning, wearing armbands, using the symbol of the swastika or political cartoons, some types of speech are not … Yes. Hate speech is generally defined as insults towards a person or group of people based on their race, … such action" (Brandenburg v. Ohio 1969 ). The precedent set in that case became the basis to free Gregory Hess, a …

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AI and Critical Thinking in Education

Teaching and Learning

… Education Overview The integration of AI into educational settings is a rapidly evolving trend with significant … learning strategies with course expectations and develop awareness about when and how different tools serve their … abilities in specific contexts. For instance, Liu and Wang conducted an intervention study demonstrating that …

https://wmich.edu/x/teaching-learning/teaching-resources/ai-critical-thinking