Students lean into AI
September 10, 2024
“AI is a huge opportunity for liberal arts grads,” says my friend, Stephen Ghigliotty. What he actually said, as he went on to remind me in my LinkedIn comments, is: “we are living through the revenge of the liberal arts majors…” Even better.
I’m seeing that play out in class at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies where I teach courses in Digital Comms Strategy (2875) and Writing Digital Content (3681).
Why would something so technical be such an opportunity for humanities majors? Ethan Mollick says it best:
“Writers are often the best at prompting AI … because they are skilled at describing the effects they want prose to create. They are good editors, so they can provide instructions back to the AI. And they can manipulate narrative to get the AI to think in the way they want.”
This video shows 5 AI tools SCS students are using to manage their time and super charge their creative expression. All are learning to be the conductors of an orchestra of AI apps (h/t Christopher Penn).
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