Teaching and Learning
Much of what I do revolves around teaching and learning — whether it’s through my writing, my engagement on social media, informal learning resources such as Risk Bites on YouTube, or my more formal teaching as a professor.
I am a strong proponent of student-centric learning which puts student needs and aspirations at the core of what I teach, how I teach, and its relevance and impact. This extends to my more public facing activities where I take an audience-centric approach to my pub,licly available writing, resources etc. Here, I am a strong advocate for facilitating and enabling self-directed and curiosity driven learning that is independent of formal systems, institutions, and expectations, and that serves learners whoever they are, whatever their background, and wherever they are coming from.
Over the years I’ve pulled together a number of learning resources that span the formal to the informal — you’ll find a selection of these below.
Teaching and Learning in an Age of AI
Resources associated with the book AI and the Art of Being Human.
Read more here: andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/teaching-and-learning-in-an-age-of-ai
The AI Companion to AI and the Art of Being Human
A free AI-legible companion to the pocket edition of the book
Read more here: andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-the-art-of-being-human-the-pocket-edition
So You Want a PhD
An AI-legible guide to approaching, understanding, and navigating a PhD. Similarly designed to be used by pointing an AI at the website and asking it to be your guide, while also being human-readable.
Read more at andrewmaynard.net/so-you-want-a-phd
An Introduction to Basic Prompt Engineering using ChatGPT
In Summer 2023 Arizona State University offered one of the first for-credit undergraduate courses in the US on basic prompt engineering using ChatGPT.
The course was designed to provide anyone who took it a basic skill set in using ChatGPT and other AI chatbots in professional settings — irrespective of their background and areas of study — and ensure this was reflected on their transcript. It also provided a critical understanding of the limitations of the tool, and how to use it responsibly.
The full set of materials from the course are available here: andrewmaynard.net/an-introduction-to-basic-prompt-engineering-with-chatgpt
Responsible AI Trajectories Tool
The Responsible AI Trajectories Tool: A website and tool designed to allow users to explore cause and effect relationships that impact responsible AI development and use. Used within ASU AI Literacy educational resources.
Read more here: andrewmaynard.net/ai-trajectories-tool-2
The Moviegoer’s Guide to the Future
Resources accompanying the book Films from the Future, and used in my teaching
Read more here: andrewmaynard.net/films-from-the-future
Science Videos Made Simple
A short guide to making simple whiteboard-style videos for scientists, developed in 2017.
Read more here: andrewmaynard.net/science-videos-made-simple-overview
Antarctica Study Abroad 2022
From December 2022 to January 2023 I co-led the second study abroad to Antarctica from Arizona State University with Nicole Mayberry — and the first and only one to date to take in South Georgia and the “Shackleton Route” between Elephant Island and here.
Explore further here: andrewmaynard.net/antarctica-study-abroad-2022