Generative Academic Insights: Thinking With AI

CTI is offering a series of programs this fall to help faculty think about AI's impact on their courses. Building on the work taken on by last year's AI Advisory Group, we have identified key topics and paired them with selected readings. We have also invited SSU faculty to co-facilitate several sessions to share their own emerging AI literacies.

In these 60-minute drop-in sessions, CTI Instructional Designer Jim McGrath and faculty co-facilitators will introduce the reading and highlight some core takeaways.

What could it mean to think with AI? Join Jonathan Fitzgerald (English) and Jim McGrath (Center for Teaching Innovation) to discuss ways that AI platforms like ChatGPT can be leveraged as conversation partners for brainstorming. Considering these contexts can help instructors reflect on how AI impacts approaches to thinking, drafting, and revision that we emphasize with our students (and use in our own writing and thinking). 

Core Reading: These sessions will be anchored by a core reading, which we hope you have time to review (or at least scan) before attending the live session. For this session, we'd like you to read “What It’s Like to Brainstorm with a Bot,” written by Dan Rockmore and published in The New Yorker in August 2025. Please email Jim if you have trouble accessing this reading.

Please register in advance for this Zoom discussion. All registrants will receive copies of relevant readings on this topic prior to the meeting.