The AI Assignment Playbook: Practical Strategies for Teaching with and about AI

With generative AI making its way into all manner of domains, educators have a role to play in teaching students how to use AI effectively and ethically, as well as when to avoid using it altogether. This can be hard to do when we're still figuring out what roles AI might usefully play in our teaching and scholarship! 

In this session, you'll discover practical strategies for partnering with students in this AI revolution—not policing them—through thoughtfully designed activities across disciplines. Leave with concrete examples you can implement immediately, whether you teach literature, engineering, business, or anything in between.

About the speaker

Derek Bruff is an associate director at the Center for Teaching Excellence for the 2024-2025 academic year, working remotely from his home outside Nashville, Tennessee. Derek is involved in a number of programs and projects, including supporting the Faculty AI Guides program and serving as an editor for external contributions to Teaching Hub. Derek directed the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching for more than a decade, where he helped faculty and other instructors develop foundational teaching skills and explore new ideas in teaching. He has written two books, Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching (West Virginia University Press, 2019) and Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments (Jossey-Bass, 2009). Currently, Derek produces the Intentional Teaching podcast and newsletter. Derek has a PhD in mathematics and has taught math courses at Vanderbilt and Harvard University.

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