The AI Assignment Playbook: Practical Strategies for Teaching with and about AI

Event Details
Wednesday, May 07, 2025
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
SDSU Faculty/Staff
With generative AI making its way into all manner of domains, educators have a role to play in teaching students how to use AI effectively and ethically, as well as when to avoid using it altogether. This can be hard to do when we鈥檙e still figuring out what roles AI might usefully play in our teaching and scholarship!


In this session, you鈥檒l discover practical strategies for partnering with students in this AI revolution鈥攏ot policing them鈥攖hrough thoughtfully designed activities across disciplines. Leave with concrete examples you can implement immediately, whether you teach literature, engineering, business, or anything in between.


About the speaker

Derek Bruff is an associate director at the Center for Teaching Excellence for the 2024-2025 academic year, working remotely from his home outside Nashville, Tennessee. Derek is involved in a number of programs and projects, including supporting the Faculty AI Guides program and serving as an editor for external contributions to Teaching Hub. Derek directed the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching for more than a decade, where he helped 糖心视频 and other instructors develop foundational teaching skills and explore new ideas in teaching. He has written two books, Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching (West Virginia University Press, 2019) and Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments (Jossey-Bass, 2009). Currently, Derek produces the Intentional Teaching podcast and newsletter. Derek has a PhD in mathematics and has taught math courses at Vanderbilt and Harvard University.
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