AI in studying & teaching (workshop reports)
16 January 2024, 5:30 p.m.
Fürstenhaus, Senate Hall & online
Lea Jung (HfMT Cologne, University of Siegen)
Sebastian Eck (HfM Weimar)
Moderation: Dorothea Warneck
In the keynote lecture by Lea Jung, a series of seminars will be presented that uses the figure of the cyborg as inspiration for the examination of these and other (musical) human-machine connections and discusses the resulting challenges: Questions of authorship and copyright, gendered connotations of technology, the emancipatory potential of digital spaces and biases in collaboration with AI.
The keynote speech by Sebastian Eck shows how tools such as ChatGPT can be effectively integrated into the academic writing process of students and help to compensate for disadvantages such as individual writing difficulties. ChatGPT offers suggestions for text structures based on self-written key points, enables a dialogue-based exchange of ideas and can check not only spelling and grammar, but also the logical coherence of written texts.
A reflective and self-confident use of ChatGPT can enable students to utilise the advantages of this technology without compromising the quality and authenticity of their academic work.
AI in music lessons - tools in practice
30 January 2024, 9:00 a.m.
Monastery building Am Palais, adjoining room (no. 112) & online
Tobias Rotsch (HfM Trossingen)
Moderation: Anna Wolf (HfM Weimar)
The practice-orientated and interactive event deals with the question of which concrete applications of artificial intelligence are conceivable in music lessons. Which AI tools are already being used by musicians, teachers or students and how do they work?
Using application examples of AI music and generative AI platforms, Tobias Rotsch will present and discuss possibilities for practice-oriented use in teaching-learning scenarios.
AI as a teacher and lecturer in tomorrow's music lessons?
Wednesday, 6 December 2023
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Senatssaal Fürstenhaus
Keynote speech and panel discussion with an open discussion round with Junior Prof. Dr. Johannes Treß (Freiburg University of Education) and Prof. Dr. Anna Wolf (Weimar University of Music)
Moderation: Dorothea Warneck (HfM Weimar)
The event is open to the public. Please register via this link.
The debate on artificial intelligence has now arrived in classrooms across Germany. This also raises a number of questions from a music education perspective: What role can, may and should AI play in contemporary music lessons? How do music teachers deal with this technological transformation process? What are the consequences for music teaching studies? The Australian educational scientist Neil Selwyn already provocatively formulated in 2019: "Should Robots Replace Teachers?"
AI and scientific writing: Who writes the better term paper?
Tuesday, 21 November 2023
5:30 -7:00 p.m.
Senatssaal Fürstenhaus
Panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Peter Braun (Head of the Writing Center at Friedrich Schiller University Jena), Prof. Dr. Martin Pfleiderer (Professor of the History of Jazz and Popular Music, HfM Weimar) and Constanze Zacharias (Musicology student, HfM Weimar)
Moderation: Dr. Jens Ewen (Vice President HfM Weimar)
The event is open to the university public. Please register via this link.
In academic disciplines, new knowledge is gained through the reception and production of texts. We naturally assume that this happens through people: Research, text production, perception and creative processing by humans has been a cornerstone of science to date. Our understanding of authorship and scientific creativity is based on this idea. However, various forms of artificial intelligence can now support these tasks or even take them over completely.
What does this mean for the scientific self-image? What are the benefits and dangers of this rapid and unsettling development? How should we react as a university, where can and should we actively shape developments? What will written examinations look like in our degree programs in the future? And how do teachers and students need to be equipped to deal with AI?
Why Mozart, Liszt & Co. have more to do with AI bots than you think
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Senatssaal Fürstenhaus
Impulse lecture: ChatGPT and its implications for university teaching (Ludwig Finster, FH Erfurt)
Panel discussion with Prof. Jörn Arnecke, Prof. Ekhart Wycik, Alexander Vaughan and student representatives
Moderation: Dorothea Warneck
The event is open to the university public.
For half a year now, the news about ChatGPT and other text-generative AI bots has been flying. The rapid development of AI writing tools will permanently change teaching, learning and testing also at the Weimar University of Music. These challenges have to be faced and answers to questions have to be found: How will written (final) papers be handled in the future? How can exams be assessed fairly in the future? How can ChatGPT be used and approved as a useful tool? What competencies do students and teachers need for a productive and critical handling of AI bots?