Student Perspectives on the AI Assistant in GoReact

Dr. Lori Dasa:

We’ve done a lot of studying and collecting data on our student perspectives on our supervisor, the usage of all of this and for the students on the student side of things and really kind of utilizing this AI feature, how it seems to have impacted our students. The biggest ways really that we can see is that it’s really reinforcing the pedagogy and the teaching practices that we have in all of our content, right infused throughout all of our coursework. It’s really able to reinforce that in a way that students can see, like I said, pretty much in real time once they upload those videos, getting that instant feedback to prompt deeper reflection so that they can really reflect on their own practice with that feedback that is supportive as well as areas for improvement.

The perceptions from the students, they really appreciate the constructive feedback they receive through GoReact about their teaching practices, they’re utilizing it, they’re thinking about it, it’s helping prompt other ways of considering their practice. So we do have a few quotes that we would like to share that we were able to get from our students about their actual experiences. So I’ll just kind of read through these. So at first I thought it was my supervisor. I had no idea it was ai. So like I shared at the two previous slides, the comments, sometimes the students have to read them very carefully to see who was it that actually responded. Was that my supervisor or a faculty member or was that AI generated? So Caitlin was saying she sometimes didn’t even realize it was so close. Natalie says, being able to rewatch and reflect using GoReact was really helpful.

I noticed things I missed in the moment. So again, super powerful to help with them in kind of facilitating a deeper reflection. Let’s see here. Crystal says, I liked GoReact because I could see my own pacing and if I was pausing too long or talking too fast, I would say one of the features that the students tend to really enjoy, I’m not really sure why. I think this comment maybe alludes to it a little bit, but on some of the visual graphs that you can choose to pull down and actually see one of them is those filler words. So how many times a student is saying things like that type of thing. The students love it. That is probably one of their favorite visual representations is to see how many times they’re pausing too long and things like that. That’s a fun feature but also really helpful. Melissa says, I appreciated being able to see what I did well and what I could work on. It was honest. And then Jasmine, you just upload a video to GoReact and add comments as you go along. Hands down, easy, just easy.