In this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Deborah Natoli and Minh Trinh, USC Price School of Public Policy, share how they redesigned an annotated bibliography assignment using AI tools like NotebookLM, including a structured guide for students to log AI use and verify sources while building AI literacy and critical evaluation skills.
For this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Raffaella Ghittoni, USC Dornsife (Biology) shares a Brightspace banner challenge where students to create AI-generated or self-designed course images, encouraging early syllabus review, creativity, class discussion, and thoughtful engagement with course content.
For this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Wanmeng Li, USC Dornsife (East Asian Languages and Cultures), demonstrates how custom GPTs and retrieval-augmented generation can automate routine student questions, reduce repetitive emails, and create course-specific Q&A bots grounded in syllabi and other class materials.
For this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Mathew Curtis, USC Annenberg School of Journalism and Communication, walks through a framework for using AI at three progressive levels to refine assignment prompts, generate examples, anticipate student confusion, and stress-test assignment design against course learning objectives.
In this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Rita Barakat, USC Dornsife (Biology), shares how she redesigned formative assessments in introductory biology to guide students in using generative AI through carefully structured prompts, problem sets, and reflection questions that build critical thinking and help them evaluate AI output.
For this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Mariela Padilla, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, demonstrates how she uses AI-supported role play scenarios to help students practice pain management conversations, emphasizing clinical communication skills, empathy, and responsible use of AI in patient interactions.
In this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Ian Spatz, USC Price School of Public Policy, shares how he incorporates AI into weekly reading assignments, using structured prompts to support student engagement, deepen analysis of course materials, and encourage critical evaluation of AI-generated responses.
For this Spring 2026 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Liz Blomstedt and Jen Bankard, USC Dornsife Writing Program, demonstrate how they developed and use the AI for Brainstorming and Editing (ABE) tool in Writing 340 to support weekly writing assignments, strengthen hooks and counterarguments, and help students reflect on their writing process and revisions through instructor-visible timelines and change summaries.
For this Fall 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Bridgid Fennell and Benjamin Hall, USC Libraries, discuss the ins and outs of copyright law, licensing, and fair use in a rapidly changing legal landscape around Large Language Model use and training.
In this Fall 2025 Faculty Showcase on AI in Teaching, Katherine Brichacek, Viterbi School of Engineering, reviews research on the unreliability of AI detection software and demonstrates the utility of using Draftback, a Google Chrome extension, and Google Docs as an alternative to hold students accountable to a AI-free writing process.
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