How do we keep students engaged, especially in online and asynchronous modalities? This week explores active learning strategies, student motivation, and inclusive approaches to digital humanities pedagogy. You’ll design an AI-integrated exercise for your course that puts active learning principles into practice.

Readings

• Langmead, Alison and Annette Vee. “Teaching the Digital Humanities to a Broad Undergraduate Population.” What We Teach When We Teach DH
• Prince, Alanna and Cara Marta Messina. “Black Digital Humanities for the Rising Generation.” DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly 16.3 (2022).
• Mollick, Ethan. “Using AI to Make Teaching Easier and More Impactful.” One Useful Thing.
• Cohen, Dan. “Books Are Big AI’s Achilles’ Heel.” Humane Ingenuity.

Discussion Prompt

AI Exercise Design. Design an AI-related exercise for your course. How does this exercise use active learning principles? What would students do with AI, and what would they learn? How does this exercise connect to your course’s learning objectives? Use Claude Artifacts to prototype or model the exercise.