AI, Unscripted: From AI-Curious to AI-Confident
Your Journey to Practical AI Implementation in Teaching
The "AI, Unscripted" podcast limited series guides faculty from curiosity to confidence in using artificial intelligence for teaching and learning. This seven-episode limited series from the University of ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø, Baltimore's podcast features conversations with ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø educators who started exactly where you might be now—interested but uncertain about AI's place in higher education.
Co-sponsored by the ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, the ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø Council of University System Faculty, and , each 30-minute episode offers concrete examples, manageable first steps, and practical advice for faculty at all comfort levels with AI technology.
Meet Your Hosts
- Mary Crowley-Farrell, Collegiate Associate Professor in Communication, Journalism, & Speech at UMGC and CUSF member and chair of the CUSF Education Policy committee
- Michael Mills, Associate Senior Vice President of Equitable Access and Student Success at Montgomery College and chair of the board, ϡȱÁÔÆæÍøOnline
- Jennifer Potter, Associate Director, Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation at the ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø
Episode Lineup: Your Path from AI-Curious to AI-Confident
Our carefully curated lineup features faculty from diverse disciplines and institutions who understand the caution many faculty (and students) feel about AI:
- Host Handover with Moving the Needle Host and Ai, Unscripted co-hosts, , , and
- AI & Information Literacy: Teaching Students to Think Critically with (Teaching and Learning Librarian, University of ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø, College Park)
- Ask the AI: Business Assignments That Boost Engagement with (Associate Professor, University of Baltimore Merrick School of Business)
- Therapy Bots & Ethical Practice: AI in Mental Health Education with (Assistant Professor of Psychology, Goucher College)
- Truth, Data, and AI: Journalism's Role in Uncertain Times with (Lecturer in Journalism, University of ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø, College Park)
- Writing with Machines: AI in the English Classroom with (Professor of English, Chesapeake College)
- Clinical Judgment Meets AI: Teaching for Nursing Practice with (Associate Professor in Nursing, Coppin State University)
- AI as a Critical Friend: Supporting Reflection in Graduate Learning with (Professor, Learning Technologies, Design & School Library Media, Towson University)
- Ask Us Anything Series Wrap-Up with co-hosts , , and and Moving the Needle host
Common Concerns Addressed
Throughout the series, our guests address questions like:
- "Will AI make academic dishonesty easier?"
- "How do I maintain rigor when using AI tools?"
- "What if I don't have technical expertise?"
- "How do I help students use AI ethically?"
- "Will AI replace critical thinking skills?"
Your Next Step
Each episode concludes with our guests answering the question: "What do you recommend to faculty who are just getting started and want to try using AI in their teaching and learning?" Their answers provide concrete, manageable first steps for your own AI journey.
How to Listen
Subscribe to Moving the Needle on and or listen directly on the .
Share Your Journey
We'll be posting on LinkedIn through the and the , so follow us now! We invite you to share your own path from AI-curious to AI-confident using #AIUnscripted on LinkedIn or email us at aiunscripted@usmd.edu.
