Transforming Teaching With Generative AI

This guide provides educators with practical tools for integrating artificial intelligence into their K–12 and higher education classrooms.

This user-friendly book breaks down technical concepts to make AI understandable for educators without a background in technology. It builds from trusted frameworks and connects AI to the methods and expertise educators already bring to their teaching. Key topics include the basics of generative AI, prompt design, classroom integration, ethical concerns, assessment design, and academic integrity.

Rather than treating AI as a challenge to work around, this guide encourages educators to see it as a way to accelerate learning and support students more effectively. With examples, case studies, strategies, and activities drawn from real teaching contexts, readers will learn how to set clear expectations for AI use and build classroom cultures where students engage with AI in thoughtful and practical ways.

Transforming Teaching With Generative AI offers teachers, teacher educators, instructional designers, and academic leaders a clear framework for using AI with purpose and on their own terms.

Book Features:

• Offers a real-world approach to using AI in education, including how to think critically about ethical challenges while staying focused on student learning.
• Uses clear explanations of complex topics, from large language models to writing successful AI prompts.
• Provides guidance for using AI to craft assignments, assessments, and personalize student learning.
• Aligns new tools with existing teaching goals and values, including connecting AI integration to trusted models like TPACK and TILT.
• Includes user-friendly features for busy educators, such as sample prompts, checklists, and discussion questions that support reflection and ease of implementation.

Nick Gaspar is director of online and digital education at the University of Michigan-Flint and serves on the university's Generative Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee.

"Nick understands that the most urgent questions about AI are not just technical; they are ethical, pedagogical, and profoundly human. This book does not just teach you how to use GenAI tools. It invites you to ask why, and it equips you with the frameworks, case studies, and reflection prompts to do so."
—From the Foreword by Tazin Daniels, Associate Director, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan

“This book offers clear and succinct guidance for teachers (and educational institutions by extension), suggesting how they can take a student-centered approach to using AI and make informed choices that foster students' learning. It provides practical strategies to support transparency around the tools and processes for learning and teaching.”
—Mary-Ann Winkelmes, founder and director, Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT Higher Ed)

“This timely and practical guide bridges AI and education, providing educators with essential concepts, frameworks, and strategies to confidentially, ethically, and effectively use AI to enhance learning.”
—Kristen Betts, clinical professor, Drexel University

"With impressive erudition and accessible prose, Nick Gaspar has created an essential book for educators who want to be prepared for 21st century learning environments. Pick this book up immediately."
—Kyle Jensen, assistant dean of AI and emerging digital technologies, Arizona State University

“Gaspar's book is an excellent introduction and guide for all college teachers—those just beginning their AI journey, as well as those who've been experimenting and incorporating genAI into curriculum for years. The approach helps educators who want to center AI literacy for their students over simple AI fluency.”
—Sarah Z Johnson, writing center director and academic integrity officer, Madison College, MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on AI and Writing, and faculty fellow for the American Association of Colleges and Universities