For this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Helen Choi, Viterbi School of Engineering, shares her “What’s your p(doom)?” assignment in which students make and justify a personal calculation of the probability of “doom” (e.g., social, environmental, political, economic collapse) in relation to AI technology. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence.
For this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Elisabeth Arnold Weiss, Viterbi School of Engineering, shares the design principles and learning impact of her “Future Stories Project” assignment in which students compose two complementary narratives that envision the future of the LA Memorial Coliseum: one using traditional written storytelling and the other using AI image generation tools. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence.
For this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Misha Kouzeh, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, describes strategies for building student AI literacy and for using AI to personalize learning. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence.
For this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Peter Carnevale, Marshall School of Business, describes an assignment he redesigned to have students practice key negotiation and mediation skills by engaging in a role play with AI. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence
For this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Tina Austin, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, presents an approach to selecting AI tools and tasks that align with STEM course learning objectives and deepen student engagement with content. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence.
For this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Andrew De Silva, Dornsife College of Arts, Letters and Sciences, shares insight on comparing human- and AI-produced writing using a sample essay prompt from the Dornsife Writing Program. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence
In this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Jane Lah and Neha Rao, USC Libraries, provide an overview of a student-facing mini-course, “AI: Mindful Applications,” designed to provide undergraduate students with a self-paced tutorial on informed and ethical use of generative AI in writing and research. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence
For this Spring 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Minh Trinh, Price School of Public Policy, presents the “AI 101” infographic she designed to provide faculty at Price with practical strategies for choosing AI tools, creating prompts, developing policies, and mitigating unauthorized use. Keywords: AI, artificial intelligence
Rachel Carmen Ceasar with the Keck School of Medicine, discusses the State of AI in Qualitative Research at the Fall 2023 Faculty Showcase on AI in Education.
Mike Jones & Allissa Richardson with USC Libraries & Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism discuss Engaging Students Through Oral Histories and Artificial Intelligence at the Fall 2023 Faculty Showcase on AI in Education.
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