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Agenda and Minutes

1. Reviewing discussion updates?

2. AGFS issues: what is VJB's status? Currently at the GC or maybe beyond, can't tell until the Faculty Senate minutes for their Dec. 6 meeting become available (https://ualr.edu/facultysenate/) with a link to the GC minutes. They are not posted yet.

2. AI, how is it affecting education, how AI could be used to enhance teaching, etc.? 

• VJB stepped us through some material from a workshop he is taking on using AI in education.
  

• Automating the Socratic method of teaching. 
• TE is leaning toward this for a dissertation.
  
• See research at https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13919 
• RAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation - is a type of intelligent tutoring system. VJB has a senior capstone project student working on this next semester.
  
• We finished section 1 (12/11/24).

The meeting ended here.

• Consider this prompt to an AI:
• Teach me about an article using Socratic questioning. You ask me questions to guide my learning. Here is the article. <copy paste an article about something here.>
• See for example this example and this video.
• See research at https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/assets.jmir.org/assets/preprints/preprint-57995-submitted.pdf

3. We could discuss space research such as something new from V's dissertation. For example, the graphs showing what fraction of satellites last at least a given number of years might be publishable. R suggests there might be other results in the dissertation that could also be valuable. V will plan to show us the graphs that would be useful in our next meeting.