"Our Favorite Things" Video Series 鈥 Faculty AI Discernment
This series of short videos from the CTL features faculty and students reflecting on how they are both discerning and may be engaging AI in their classrooms while staying true to our shared commitments to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, the Teaching Quality Framework (TQF), and Ignatian Pedagogy and our Jesuit mission.
Video runtimes range from 10-20 minutes. Click the title to play the video.

Interviewee: Dr. Brian Spaid, Chair and Associate Professor of Marketing, College of Business Administration
Brian and Jennifer discuss using generative tools to support the creating of assessments, rubrics, and content materials.
Interviewees: Maxwell Gray, Digital Scholarship Librarian and Nicole Bungert, Student Success Librarian, Raynor Library
Join us for this discussion of the ways in which our library colleagues are supporting students in their consideration of AI, including frameworks and models useful in these approaches.
Interviewee: Juan Carlos Ampie, Director of Student Media and Instructor of Practice, College of Communications
Juan Carlos Ampie discusses AI from the perspective of journalism and his work with students journalists on the Wire as well as his reconsidering of perfection in this latest video.
Interviewee: Dr. Richard Povinelli, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
Dr. Povinelli discusses his openness to students trying generative technology in his classroom while maintaining a focus on supporting their discernment of its use and impact on their learning.
Interviewee: Alison Julien, Professor, Legal Writing, Law School
Alison and Jen talk about the ways in which she has incorporated AI tools into her own teaching organization, how students are thoughtful in their consideration of its use, and how one size does not necessarily fit all.
Interviewees: Jenna Green, Teaching Assistant Professor, English, College of Arts and Sciences and Fr. Joseph Simmons, Assistant Professor, Theology, College of Arts and Sciences
How can 福利在线 educators help students assess the promises (and pitfalls) of Generative AI? In this engaging conversation, Dr. Green and Fr. Simmons, SJ discuss the ENGL 1001 curriculum, wherein students interrogate how we formulate AI prompts like, 鈥淲hat makes Milwaukee a good city to visit?鈥
Dr. Green鈥檚 creative assignment encourages students to hone their emerging 'para-expertise鈥, based in embodied, experiential knowledge of Milwaukee. Presuming AI isn鈥檛 going anywhere, we might ask: how can educators help students develop a love of reading and discover their own voice? Have a look and find out what 福利在线 humanities are doing to respond.
More videos to come! Visit the CTL's Artificial Intelligence and Generative and Emerging Technologies Support for the Classroom for more AI information or click here to find additional AI teaching resources.