Monday Morning Mentor: Bite-Sized Best Practices for Incorporating Generative AI into Any Course

Available Jan. 26 - Feb. 1, 2026

Note: Contact the Teaching and Learning Center to view this week's session; to receive the passwordand link, send an email to [email protected].

Generative AI presents a complex and fast-moving challenge for educators, often feeling impossible to address with a single policy, tool, or set of rules. Faculty are grappling with concerns about academic integrity, misinformation, equity, increased workload, and the risk of students outsourcing their learning - while also trying to determine how, or whether, AI belongs in their teaching at all. This uncertainty can make AI feel more like a threat than an opportunity.

In this 20-Minute Mentor, you'll gain a practical, principle-driven approach to navigating generative AI through small, intentional micro-practices that work across disciplines and modalities. Rather than policing AI use, this program shows how to design engaging learning experiences students won't want to outsource, transform existing materials into bite-sized activities, and set ethical boundaries that prioritize student agency. You'll leave with clear strategies

After viewing this Magna 20-Minute Mentor, participants will be able to:

• Explain why Generative AI integration is most effective when approached through micro-practices
• Apply guiding principles that safeguard intellectual property and personal information when using AI tools
• Generate a formative quiz or engagement activity using a ready-to-adapt AI prompt template
• Describe how the "Boundaries, Not Barriers" Personal Compass supports learners in evaluating AI outputs
• Design course activities that promote authentic learning and reduce over-reliance on AI

TOPICS COVERED

• Framing Generative AI as a wicked problem in teaching
• Applying guiding principles for ethical and responsible AI use
• Creating bite-sized AI-generated engagement and assessment activities
• Introducing the "Boundaries, Not Barriers" Student Personal Compass
• Designing learning experiences that discourage AI over-reliance