🔒 Telling ChatGPT How It Is with Neeza Singh and Christopher McVey (Bonus)

04/01/25 • 5 min

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I recently talked with Christopher McVey, master lecturer in the writing program at Boston University, and Neeza Singh, a BU senior majoring in data science who served as an AI Affiliate in Christopher's writing course last year. In this bonus clip, Neeza teaches me something I didn't know about ChatGPT, and Christopher has some advice for fellow instructors about how students are thinking about AI.

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AI Teaching Fellows with Christopher McVey and Neeza Singh

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Christopher McVey is a master lecturer in the writing program at Boston University. Neeza Singh is a senior at BU majoring in data science. Last year, the two were partnered through the BU writing program's AI Affiliate Fellowship program, giving Neeza a role in Christopher's class supporting both Christopher and his students in responsible and effective use of generative AI in writing.

On this episode, I talk with Chris and Neeza about this innovative, AI-focused students-as-partners program. They share about Neeza's role in Chris' writing course, how her work as an AI affiliate benefitted both Chris and his students, and the potential for this kind of program to work in other disciplines. Chris and Neeza have lots to say about the role of AI in learning.

Episode Resources

· Christopher McVey’s faculty page

· Neeza Singh’s LinkedIn page

· Undergraduate AI Writing Affiliate Fellowship, Boston University Writing Program

· Syllabus for The Philosophy and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

· AI Mini-Games for Peer Review, an activity by Neeza Singh and Christopher McVey

· The Case for Slowing Down, by Christopher McVey

· AI-Enhanced Learning with Pary Fassihi, Intentional Teaching episode 35

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Annotation and Learning with Remi Kalir

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Today on the podcast, I’m republishing one of my favorite interviews from Leading Lines, the podcast I hosted for the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching from 2016 to 2022.

In this interview from 2022, I talk with Remi Kalir, who was (at the time) an associate professor of learning design and technology at the University of Colorado. Remi is a scholar of annotation, that simple act of adding a note to a text. Remi takes a broad view of what counts as a “note” and as a “text,” making annotation a powerful lens for examining how we humans make meaning. In the interview, Remi and I focus on the use of annotation in learning contexts, particularly social and collaborative annotation. It’s an interview I find myself referencing again and again, and I’m glad to have it in a podcast feed once again!

And the timing of this episode is intentional, as Remi has a new book out the day this episode of Intentional Teaching airs. The book is called Re/Marks on Power: How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice. Here’s the tag line from the MIT Press website: “An interdisciplinary exploration of annotation that shows how this participatory act marks public memory, struggles for justice, and social change.” So if you like what you hear from Remi about annotation and learning, then follow the links in the show notes to learn more about his new book.

Episode Resources

· Remi Kalir’s website

· Re/Marks on Power: How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice

· Reading Re/Marks, Remi’s newsletter

· Annotation in Teaching and Learning, a collection of resources on the topic that I curated for the University of Virginia Teaching Hub

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