Getting Started with AI in the Classroom

As generative AI (GenAI) continues to reshape higher education, you—as an IU instructor—are uniquely positioned to lead your students through a transformative experience. While we can all agree having generative AI thrust unknowingly upon us is a less than ideal situation, whether you’re now exploring AI’s potential to improve student learning outcomes, designing new assessments, or addressing its myriad ethical considerations, here is a collection of blog posts on getting started with generative AI in the classroom.

CITL AI Blog Posts:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Generative AI in the Classroom: Policies, Primer Part 6 (August 13, 2024): why being transparent through your AI classroom policy is so essential.
7. Generative AI in the Classroom: Transparency, Primer Part 5 (September 4, 2024): how to use generative AI to TITL (add transparency) to your assignments.
8. Generative AI in the Classroom: Large Enrollment Courses, Primer Part 7 (October 9, 2024):
9. 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 read my previous blog posts on AI, or 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 with questions or for a personal teaching consultation on how to get started or to use generative AI to improve your learning outcomes.