60-Second SoTL – Episode 71

How can generative AI support student brainstorming without replacing thinking, voice, or agency? This episode highlights an open-access article about a GenAI-enabled brainstorming app used in an interdisciplinary writing course:

Chia, Joanne, and Angela Frattarola. 2025. “A Design-Based Approach to Analysing Student Engagement with a GenAI-Enabled Brainstorming App.” Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence 9. https://doi-org.elon.idm.oclc.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2025.100468

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Show Credits

This episode was hosted, edited, and produced by Jessie L. Moore, Director of the Center for Engaged Learning and Professor of Professional Writing & Rhetoric.

60-Second SoTL is produced by the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University.

Music: “Cryptic” by AudioCoffee.

Image in episode art was created by ChatGPT 5.2, using the prompt, “Please create a landscape-orientation image depicting what ‘Nudgy,’ the GenAI tool described in this article, might look like.” Feedback prompted ChatGPT to “Please revise to reduce the text on the screen, and the center Nudgy and his speech bubble on the computer screen.”

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