Session Overview 

In this session, the fourth in the Library's AI in Your Toolkit series, we will present strategies and tools for effectively using AI as a tutor. We envision the session as being useful for students, staff, and faculty who want to use AI as a tool for enhancing their understanding of topics that are relevant to their training or work. The session will include several hands-on components, allowing attendees an opportunity to actively practice crafting effective prompts in a variety of tools. We will cover chatbot tools such as ChatGPT and Gemini, as well as NotebookLM, a powerful tool that can be used to generate learning material.

Learning Objectives

• Decide whether AI may be useful for enhancing your understanding of a topic, or how it may be used to complement other resources.
• Create effective chatbot prompts to enhance your understanding of a topic.
• Evaluate whether information offered by AI tools is trustworthy.

Accessibility

UCSF welcomes all participants to our events. If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this event because of a disability, please contact Ariel Deardorff at ariel.deardorff@ucsf.edu as soon as possible.

People

• Lisa Leiva  is the Head of Instructional Design in the Library. She leads teaching and learning initiatives, supports inclusive and accessible educational practices, and collaborates with campus partners to enhance educator and learner experiences.
• Yea-Hung Chen is a Data Science Specialist. He leads workshops on R and provides one-on-one consultations and data science and R.
• Eileen Chen is an Education and Research Librarian. She offers support with literature searching, data management, and open access publishing.
• Ariel Deardorff is the Director of Data Science and Open Scholarship. She leads a team focused on empowering researchers to engage with open research and reproducible data-driven science.
• Josephine Tan is an Education and Research Librarian. She teaches curriculum-integrated literature searching and citation management skills and specializes in medical education research.
• Holly Thompson is the Director of Education and Clinical Research Services. She leads a team of librarians who support the education and research missions of the UCSF professional schools, UCSF Health, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland.

AI in your Toolkit Series

This session is part of a 6-workshop series called AI in your Toolkit: Critical approaches to using AI in your work. Learn more about the series and find session materials on the AI in your Toolkit website.