<p>Mike Caulfield shares about using AI as a co-reasoning partner and his Deep Background tool on episode 590 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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<h2>Quotes from the episode</h2>
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<p>Critical thinking problems with students turn out to be critical doing problems.
-Mike Caulfield</p>
<p>AI doesn&#8217;t naturally think in terms of provenance, in terms of how it got this piece of information. It&#8217;s a little bit of a bolt on afterthought.
-Mike Caulfield</p>
<p>Searching for information is a journey. How can we get the benefits of AI but still preserve that feeling of a journey?
-Mike Caulfield</p>
<p>I’m working on this issue of follow ups with AI. It is magic to get students to think of these responses as not a single transaction. They&#8217;re coaching the AI through a process, not to get a specific answer that they want, but to look at the sorts of sources that matter for the question.
-Mike Caulfield</p>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://checkplease.neocities.org/">Deep Background: A “Superprompt” to change the way you use LLMs</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/reading-the-room-with-sift-toolbox">Reading the Room with SIFT Toolbox</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/new-sift-toolbox-release-and-a-note">New SIFT Toolbox Release (Substack)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://hapgood.us/2019/06/19/sift-the-four-moves/">SIFT Method (The Four Moves)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Verified-Straight-Better-Decisions-Believe/dp/0226822060">Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online, by Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg</a></li>
<li><a href="https://aace.org/review/caulfield-ai/">Interview with Mike Caulfield on Deep Background (AACE Review)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/is-the-llm-response-wrong-or-have">Is the LLM Response Wrong, or Have You Just Failed to Iterate It, by Mike Caulfield</a></li>
<li><a href="https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/verified-with-mike-caulfield/">Episode 492: Verified with Mike Caulfield on Teaching in Higher Ed</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlight_Bowl_(San_Diego)">Starlight Bowl in San Diego</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Music">Sound of Music</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/nathan-fielder-the-rehearsal-season-2-finale-interview-1235349515/">“Everything Could Have Been a Huge Disaster”: Nathan Fielder on Making ‘The Rehearsal’ Season 2</a></li>
<li><a href="https://youtu.be/M1N_wbhAfQ4?si=uwSIbbZIDIEW2iVn">It Runs Through Me</a>, Tom Misch (feat. De La Soul)</li>
<li><a href="https://youtu.be/IUMTaAQ43lY?si=QG9r8ltg4PtYYRFA">Tom Misch: Tiny Desk Concert</a></li>
<li><a href="https://youtu.be/fG9lFewfGEs?si=eU9eOXSOMRWMz0kW">Me Myself and I</a>, De La Soul (1989)</li>
<li><a href="https://youtu.be/0Yy7A74o8gQ?si=OFvXH4r-oV9OOhIW">The Magic Number</a>, De La Soul (1989)</li>
<li><a href="https://tomstafford.substack.com/">Reasonable People with Tom Stafford</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9tanque"> Pétanque</a></li>
</ul>
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