Spring 2026 Teaching & Learning Showcase

Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning & Leadership

Spring 2026 Teaching & Learning Showcase

Assignments That Build Student Skills In The Age Of Generative AI

We will meet on Friday, April 17, 2026, 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. in the Muyskens Conference Room (The Summit).

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Are you a QC faculty who is…

  • experimenting with ways to incorporate student use of gen AI in your course assignments? 
  • concerned that students are offloading their learning when they use gen AI in assignments?
  • curious about how other CUNY faculty are addressing student use of AI in assignments?
  • all of the above? 

Please join CETLL for a faculty development program focused on the design of assignments aimed at building foundational student skills (e.g. critical thinking/reading/writing) and discipline-specific skills along with AI literacy through the intentional use of generative AI. Funded in part by the CUNY OER Initiative. Breakfast will be served.

PROGRAM:

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Guest Speaker: Flipping the Pyramid 

Guest speaker Dr. Gina Rae Foster will discuss Flipping the Pyramid: Developing Critical Thinking Skills with GenAI, a new publication which “describes the experiences and insights of college faculty participating in interdisciplinary seminars focused on improving assignment design. By shifting perceptions of student GenAI use from passive to intentional, instructors created critical thinking skills development assignments and strategies complemented by the use of GenAI tools. This book is both a journey and a guide from reactive to constructive skepticism and pedagogies.” 

Dr. Foster is Director of the Teaching and Learning Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), where she supports faculty in pedagogical development, course design, and navigating crises. A poet, educator, and researcher, she holds a DPhil in Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought, and is known for her work on social justice, trauma, and resilience. 

Faculty Panel: Assignments in Progress and the Evolution of Learning 

CUNY faculty will share assignments they have developed that incorporate student use of generative AI and how the assignments continue to evolve through classroom experience. 

Hands-on Work Time: Assignment Development 

Bring ideas and working drafts of your own course assignment to create or revise. Or choose an assignment to adapt for your classes from Flipping the Pyramid’s repository of assignments or from among the discipline-specific classroom materials in the Building Bridge of Knowledge (BBK) project. There will be time for working on assignments that engage student use of generative AI alongside discipline-specific and foundational student skills for learning.