Getting Started with AI in the Classroom: Blog Posts
Generative AI is changing constantly, continually offering instructors both new challenges and opportunities. In addition to our Generative AI pages on this website, the CITL provides information, recommendations, and resources through our blog, which often allows us to provide timely information and advice. Here is a list of those posts to help you find what is most useful to you.
CITL AI Blog Posts:
- Generative AI in the Classroom: A Primer, Part 1 (January 22, 2024): recommendations for getting started with developing AI literacy, such as using AI as a search engine and writing a policy statement.
- Using Social Annotation to Fact-Check Generative AI (February 21, 2024): a discussion of how you can use social annotation to help students develop AI literacy by marking up AI-generated content to look for hallucinations, omissions, or other weaknesses.
- Generative AI in the Classroom: Cheating, Primer Part 2 (February 28, 2024): the research on cheating reveals that students often cheat when they are feeling stressed or unmotivated. We can turn around and use AI as a tool to create more engaging assignments that will encourage students to think deeply about our assessments rather than use AI as a shortcut.
- Generative AI in the Classroom: In-class Activities, Primer Part 3 (April 10, 2024): add transparency to your AI classroom policy by modeling how you would like students to use AI in your classroom with an in-class activity.
- Generative AI in the Classroom: Prompt Engineering and Tutoring, AI Primer Part 4 (April 24, 2024): an example of how to use iterating on prompts to provide access to a 24/7 tutor or research assistant for yourself or students.
- Generative AI in the Classroom: Policies, Primer Part 6 (August 13, 2024): why being transparent through your AI classroom policy is so essential.
- Generative AI in the Classroom: Transparency, Primer Part 5 (September 4, 2024): how to use generative AI to TILT (add transparency) to your assignments.
- Generative AI in the Classroom: Large Enrollment Courses, Primer Part 7 (October 9, 2024): prompts to be more productive so that you can spend more time on what matters.
- Transparent Teaching with AI: Enhancing Metacognition (March 10, 2025): An introduction to the research demonstrating that using AI to teach prompt engineering can help students improve their critical thinking and metacognitive skills.
- Building Critical AI Literacy through Writing Assignments: Dr. Abigail Rawleigh’s Method (June 4, 2025): an example of how one writing instructor has successfully adapted her assignments in the Age of AI.
Getting Assistance
To learn more about using generative AI in your classroom, consider self-enrolling in our generative AI in the Classroom modules, which are designed to help you get a foundation in generative AI and then get you started incorporating it into your classroom. You can also watch our previous Faculty Showcase on AI assignments. If you would like a personal consultation on how you can incorporate generative AI into your classroom, contact the CITL.