McQuade LibGuides: Teaching Excellence Advancement Challenge (TEACH): Harnessing Generative AI To Advance Learning

Harnessing Generative AI To Advance Learning

This page collects resources for faculty interested in better understanding generative AI and its use in the classroom.

Please see McQuade Library's full Generative AI guide for information on AI tools, effective prompting, ethical AI use, and more.

This initiative of TEACH seeks to identify effective practices for utilizing generative AI in class; develop workshops, professional development opportunities, and online resources for Merrimack faculty; and make recommendations to the Provost regarding AI classroom policy and best practices.

Books to Check Out!

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning

Generative AI in Higher Education: The ChatGPT Effect

AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What it Can't, and How to Tell the Difference

AI-Integrated Lesson Plans & Case Studies

Interested in incorporating generative AI into your instruction and assignments but not sure how? These resources can provide you with inspiration and pre-made lesson plans to use and adapt.

Harvard University AI Pedagogy Project: Assignments
An incredibly rich resource library of lesson plans that incorporate student use of AI in assignments.
aiEDU: The AI Education Project
OERs and lesson plans for incorporating artificial intelligence into teaching and learning.
Professors at Play AI PlayBook
An open access ebook full of fun and playful ways to introduce students to the capabilities and possibilities of generative AI.
101 Creative Ideas to Use AI in Education: A Crowdsourced Collection
This Open Access book compiles lessons and activities from educators using AI in the classroom.
Teaching Repository for AI-Infused Learning
This repository is brand new and accepting submissions for AI teaching strategies.
Teaching Naked: AI Literacy and Prompting
It's All in the Past: Enhancing Research and Historical Studies with Artificial Intelligence (Fabio Montella, Suffolk County Community College)
Professor Fabio Montella shares his plan for a scaffolded AI-integrated writing assignment with an embedded librarian course.
Dr. Seitchik’s AI Research and Writing Companion: A Student's Handbook for Leveraging Technology
Crafting Critical Historians: Incorporating AI Literacy into Primary Source Literacy (Kristen Howard, Liaison Librarian, McGill University)
Librarian Kristen Howard shares a library instruction module challenging students to identify real vs. “spurious” vs. fake & AI-generated primary sources.
Writing prompt in an introductory sociology course, in which students explore elements of U.S. culture
Instructors from Miami University of Ohio designed this AI-integrated lesson for an introductory sociology course.
AI Tutor Prompts
This prompt library can help students instruct AI to act as a tutor in any subject, encouraging students to ask and answer questions in a topic of their choice.

Dr. Allison Seitchik's AI Guide

Dr. Seitchik’s AI Research and Writing Companion: A Student's Handbook for Leveraging Technology
This guide is intended to be utilized by students to help them use AI to assist in research and to scaffold their writing. Instructors can use it, if they allow AI to be used in their classes, to assist students in their research and writing endeavors. Some screenshots have been redacted for copyright reasons. A paper using this guide is under review and a citation will be provided when available. The guide can assist anyone when writing, especially research papers, but it is geared toward a student population for use in or outside of the classroom.