HomeBlogPodcasts Student Engagement with GenAI Brainstormingby Jessie L. MooreJanuary 29, 2026 Share: Section NavigationSkip section navigationIn this sectionPodcasts – Home 60-Second SoTL Limed: Teaching with a Twist Making College “Worth It” Special Series First-Year Seminars Land Acknowledgement 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 View a transcript of this episode. 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.” Explore Related Resources The Affordances and Risks of Generative AI for Training Undergraduate Researchers Undergraduate research is credited with helping students develop cognitive abilities along with an understanding of the way that research happens, among other benefits, when done well. Some characteristics of high-quality undergraduate research include working on unsolved research problems (Bhattacharyya, Chan, and Waraczynski 2018) working closely with faculty having some autonomy in the research decisions (Gilmore et… Future of Feedback in the Age of GenAI 60-Second SoTL – Episode 86 What is the future of feedback in higher education in the age of GenAI? This episode features an open-access article that posits four key values for integrating GenAI feedback into care-full feedback encounters: Winstone, Naomi… Assessment in the Upside Down: Academic AI with Students as the Audience Recently, I downloaded Grammarly’s 2025–26 AI Trends Report. It had an interesting statement in its introduction: “Higher education is no longer at the beginning of its AI journey, but clarity of direction is still emerging” (2). Given other things I… Academic AI and Audience: Thoughts for Research Would you use AI to create materials for a tenure portfolio? How about a reference letter for a student’s graduate school application? For a conference? If so, what would you do with it? As faculty consider the risks and benefits of AI use, one area to think about is the… AI Literacy and Higher Education Instructors Is it time to teach kindergarteners prompt engineering, yet? This New York Times article is about grade school education, but I thought the subhead was telling: “Artificial intelligence companies are urging teachers to prepare students for an ‘A.I. -driven future.’ What that means varies from… 1 2 … 10 11 >
