The AI Elephant in the Room

Curated Resources

A selection of resources and articles. This list strives to be representative, not comprehensive.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• General AI information
  • General resources
  • Tools, tool evaluation
  • Ethics and AI
  • Food for thought
• Teaching with AI
  • Using AI in the classroom
  • AI-resistant Assignments

General AI information

• Artificial Intelligence (AI Resources): general information about AI, definitions, tips for students and faculty (Willamette)
• AI Tools & Google Education: overview of the AI tools available through Willamette, analysis of selected AI tools (Willamette)
• AI Teaching Exchange: shared Google drive compiled by WU participants, Summer 2025
• Arts & Sciences AI Resources: shared Google drive compiled by WU FAS faculty; assignments, perspectives, policies, sample syllabi
• Learn with AI, University of Maine. Interactive website that creates a map of topics and activities, ultimately linking out to resources around the internet. 
• AI for Instructors, a self-enrolled Canvas course designed by WU instructional designer, Monika

Tools, tool evaluation

• Analysis of AI Tools: analysis of selected AI tools (Willamette)

Ethics and AI

• Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell. 2021. "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜" In Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’21), March 3–10, 2021, Virtual Event, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 14 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922
• Niall Ferguson. “AI’s Great Brain Robbery — and How Universities Can Fight Back," The Times. 4 July 2025. https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/ai-brain-robbery-universities-chatgpt-c6lr03dlz.
• Your Brain on ChatGPT, 2025 MIT research project. Overview of the project. 
• [related] Andrew R. Chow, "ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study," Time. 23 June 2025. https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school

Food for Thought

• Stefanie Havelka, Claire McGuinness, and Páraic Kerrigan. "Students' Perceptions and Uses of ChatGPT: Implications for Teaching AI Literacy." Library Trends 73, 4 (2025): 402-425. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lib.2025.a968489.

• Boles, Sy. “How AI Could Radically Change Schools by 2050.” Harvard Gazette, September 19, 2025. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/09/how-ai-could-radically-change-schools-by-2050/.

Teaching with AI

• Learn with AI, University of Maine. Interactive website that creates a map of topics and activities, ultimately linking out to resources around the internet.
• Brian W. Stone. "How Does AI Affect How We Learn: A Cognitive Psychologist Explains Why You Learn When the Work Is Hard," The Conversation. 10 September 2025. https://doi.org/10.64628/AAI.rnaguh9dk 
• Michael Roberto. “Help Students Think Critically in the Age of AI | Harvard Business Publishing Education,” Harvard Business Impact. 18 December 2025. https://hbsp.harvard.edu/inspiring-minds/enhance-critical-thinking-students-ai-assignment-strategies.
• Claire Gordon. “Teaching with AI Is Not Binary.” London School of Economics and Political Science, 20 May 2025. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducation/2025/05/20/teaching-with-ai-is-not-binary/.

Using AI in the classroom

• AI Teaching Exchange: shared Google drive compiled by WU participants, Summer 2025
• Arts & Sciences AI Resources: shared Google drive compiled by WU FAS faculty; assignments, perspectives, policies, sample syllabi
• Learn with AI, University of Maine. Interactive website that creates a map of topics and activities, ultimately linking out to resources around the internet.

AI-resistant Assignments

• Jennifer Egloff. “The College Essay Is Not Dead: Using Scaffolding and Presentations to Create ChatGPT-Resistant Research Projects.” Proceedings of the H-Net Teaching Conference 2, 1 (2024): 72–100. https://doi.org/10.33823/phtc.v2i1.225.