As Generative AI becomes increasingly prevalent in teaching and learning, instructors across disciplines are grappling with questions about student authenticity, critical thinking, and appropriate pedagogical adaptations. Participants in this FLC, which met during AY 2025-26, explored how to design assignments that emphasize human experience, creativity, and critical thinking in the age of AI. They reflected on the values driving their assignment design, investigated the tensions and possibilities of AI integration, and experimented with assignments that invite student voice, storytelling, community knowledge, and multimodal expression.
Participants tested and shared assignment redesigns that aimed to be more humanizing, transparent about AI expectations, and designed to require genuine human insight. They explored what makes assignments “humanizing,” examined disciplinary and institutional policies around AI use, and discovered ways to center student voice, lived experience, and cultural knowledge in their teaching practices.
Members (Group IP):
Anna Berry Royack, Facilitator (IS)
Mariajosé Castellanos, Facilitator (CBEE)
Gautom Das (CBEE)
Yasmine Kotturi (IS)
Lara Martin (CSEE)
Mohan Sundaram (IS)
Members (Group O):
Nandita Dasgupta (ECON)
Abhijit Dutt (CSEE)
Maria Gomez-Rubio (MLLI)
Chung-Wei Huang (MCS)
Michael Hunt (McNair)
Sarah Jewett, Facilitator (HONR)
Reid Spearman (DPS)
Shuling Yang, Facilitator (EDUC)
Samples of Work:
Make It Human Booklet from Group IP
Humanizing Assignments in the Classroom Zine from Group IP