Alison Garwood Jones

How students use AI

January 14, 2025

Recently, my friend Stephen Ghigliotty made a quip about AI: “We are living through the revenge of the liberal arts grad.”

I’m seeing this play out in class at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studieswhere I teach courses in Digital Comms Strategy (2875) and Writing Digital Content (3681).

Every student who signs up for these courses in digital strategy and content marketing is a knowledge worker. And, from my informal polling, most have liberal arts degrees in English, art history, journalism, psychology, film, music, and more.

Why would something so technical (AI) 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 (now grads) 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).

SCS students are testing AI to be ready for the new workplace

To learn more about the University of Toronto SCS classes I teach, here are the links:

• 2875 – Foundations in Digital Comms Strategy & Social Media in the Age of AI

• 3681 – Writing Digital Content

 

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