AI-Assisted Teaching & Learning

Empowering Education with AI: Collaborate, Learn, and Innovate Together

Category: Faculty Development Grant

  • Circular diagram showing a learning framework. At the center is a green circle labeled “Community-First Practice.” Surrounding it is a continuous loop of five connected segments labeled: “Start with real problems,” “AI as thinking partner,” “Learning is social,” “Meaning-making,” and “Learning moves outward.” The segments form a circle with no beginning or end, indicating an iterative process. Light dotted lines, AI tool icons, and subtle arrows overlay the loop, showing that AI supports learning across all stages rather than acting as a separate step.

    Measuring What Matters (Pedagogy in the Age of AI Series 3 of 3)

    Assessing Empathy, Self-Efficacy, and Collaboration in Community-First Learning Community-First Pedagogy in the Age of AI Series If community-first teaching changes how students learn, we must be able to show it. Not with vibes.Not with anecdotes.With visible growth. Community-based, AI-supported courses often produce powerful learning moments—students rethink assumptions, gain confidence, navigate complexity, collaborate more effectively. But…

    Shane Snipes (he/him/his)

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  • Circular diagram showing a learning framework. At the center is a green circle labeled “Community-First Practice.” Surrounding it is a continuous loop of five connected segments labeled: “Start with real problems,” “AI as thinking partner,” “Learning is social,” “Meaning-making,” and “Learning moves outward.” The segments form a circle with no beginning or end, indicating an iterative process. Light dotted lines, AI tool icons, and subtle arrows overlay the loop, showing that AI supports learning across all stages rather than acting as a separate step.

    AI as Scaffold (Pedagogy in the Age of AI Series 2 of 3)

    Designing Ethical, Reflective AI Integration in Community-Based Courses Artificial intelligence is not the curriculum. It is not the instructor.It is not the learning outcome. Used well, it is something quieter and more powerful: a scaffold for thinking. In community-first courses—where students investigate real contexts, conduct interviews, analyze lived experiences, and reflect on ethical tensions—AI can…

    Shane Snipes (he/him/his)

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  • Circular diagram showing a learning framework. At the center is a green circle labeled “Community-First Practice.” Surrounding it is a continuous loop of five connected segments labeled: “Start with real problems,” “AI as thinking partner,” “Learning is social,” “Meaning-making,” and “Learning moves outward.” The segments form a circle with no beginning or end, indicating an iterative process. Light dotted lines, AI tool icons, and subtle arrows overlay the loop, showing that AI supports learning across all stages rather than acting as a separate step.

    Community-First Before Content (Pedagogy in the Age of AI Series 1 of 3)

    Most courses begin with a familiar pressure: cover the content, keep pace, meet the outcomes. But students often leave asking the same question—why did this matter? Community-first teaching starts somewhere else entirely. It begins by anchoring learning in real contexts students already inhabit: neighborhoods, workplaces, cultural spaces, and lived challenges. When courses start with community…

    Shane Snipes (he/him/his)

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