Introducing a new resource: Generative AI in the Classroom: Best Practices, a CETLL Guide
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Artificial intelligence (AI) tools that generate, edit, and proofread written text have been available for many years. We have generally become accustomed to features like predictive text in our word processing programs and phones, or support offered through programs like Grammarly. However, the introduction of Chat GPT in 2022 and rapid growth of these technologies has produced increased awareness, curiosity, and concern about the impacts of generative artificial intelligence on the world we live and work in, and the ways these technologies impact how we teach and learn in the college classroom.
Currently, there is no specific CUNY or QC policy on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom outside of some specific mentions of AI in the CUNY Academic Integrity Policy. This means that, as instructors, we have a lot of flexibility and responsibility to consider how and when the use of generative AI is acceptable in our classes and to clearly communicate these parameters to our students as we prepare them for potential integrations of these technologies in work and life. Or, as English scholar Annette Vee states, we have an opportunity to make our courses more “AI aware.”
In 2024-2025, in collaboration with Amy Wan, Professor of English and Special Assistant to the Provost for Writing, CETLL hosted a Generative AI in the Classroom Faculty Fellowship, through which an interdisciplinary cohort of thirteen faculty members were supported to critically engage the different concerns and opportunities that generative AI presents for our work as educators.
From our discussions with the Faculty Fellows and other resources, we have developed Generative AI in the Classroom: Best Practices, a CETLL Guide. This guide includes step-by-step guidance about how to engage with questions of generative AI in your classrooms, sample syllabus statements, assignments, resources developed by the Faculty Fellows, and recommended readings and resources for your use.
We encourage you to be in touch with us at CETLL for additional support or information: ctlonline@qc.cuny.edu.
CETLL’s Generative AI in the Classroom Faculty Fellows included Lindsey Albracht (English), Claudia Brumbaugh (Psychology), Ashlyn Cavitt (Design), Antonia Cucchiara (Political Science), Emily Drabinski (GSLIS), S. E. Hackney (GSLIS), Brandon Jeffries (GSLIS), Delaram Kahrobaei (Computer Science), Robin Naughton (Library), Yael Neumann (LCD), Joshua Rogers (CMAL), Annalee Roustio (Writing Center), and Holly Weisberg (Psychology).
Faculty Fellows pictured from left to right: Joshua Rogers, Soniya Munshi, Emily Drabinski, S.E. Hackney, Claudia Brumbaugh, Annalee Roustio, Brandon Jeffries, and Robin Naughton. Not pictured: Lindsey Albracht, Ashlyn Cavitt, Antonia Cucchiara, Delaram Kahrobaei, Yael Neumann, and Holly Weisberg.