AI Design Playlab

Welcome to the AI Design Lab

This space is a curated environment designed to help you navigate the intersection of policy and practice. Whether you are drafting institutional guidance or building classroom assignments, these resources—including the NCCCS AI Guidance Handbook and my TrAIT, AI Sandwich, and AI Scholar frameworks—are here to serve as your foundation.

I invite you to use the chat interface below to ask questions, brainstorm frameworks, or get started immediately on your own AI design projects.

Note: Users will need to log into their Google account before accessing the NotebookLM.

Try These Starter Prompts:

For Policy Design: "Act as a policy consultant. Based on the guardrails in the NCCCS Handbook, draft a 'Purpose Statement' and three specific policy guidelines for my department that balance AI innovation with academic integrity."
For Assignment Creation: "I want to redesign a writing assignment using the AI Sandwich method and the TrAIT Framework. How can I structure the 'Human-First' and 'Human-Last' steps to ensure students are still meeting the core learning objectives?"
For Classroom Transparency (TrAIT): "I am teaching a course that I want to designate as 'AI-Enhanced' under the TrAIT framework. Please analyze the framework's definition of 'AI+' and generate a syllabus policy that encourages students to use tools like ChatGPT for brainstorming and outlining, but strictly prohibits them for final drafting. How should I phrase this to ensure clarity?"
For Course Redesign for AI Scholars: "I want to upgrade my current course to produce 'AI Scholars.' Based on the framework, give me one example of a classroom activity for each stage of the progression: one that ensures Compliance, one that builds Literacy, and a capstone project that demonstrates Fluency."

Google Gemini Gems For Educators

AI Policy Guidance for Education Gem

Pre-AI Assignment to AI Converter Gem

AI Scholar Course Architect Gem

Remember: Think of these Google Gem as a specialized research assistant trained on our specific educational frameworks. It is designed to spark ideas, not dictate final decisions. We strongly encourage you to "push back"—ask follow-up questions, request different tones, or refine the details until it matches your needs.

AI Transparency Booster:

Empower Students to Reflect on Their AI Use

Teachers can incorporate this structured transparency prompt into AI-enhanced (AI+) assignments by requiring students to engage with an AI tool (such as Grok, ChatGPT, or similar) for research, brainstorming, drafting, or refinement as part of the task. At the conclusion of their AI session, students simply copy-paste the provided prompt into the same chat thread, which generates a clean, standardized summary including interaction counts, engagement with Costa's Levels of Questioning (1. Gathering/Input for basic recall; 2. Processing for analysis and inference; 3. Applying/Output for synthesis and creation), an overall usage rating, and positive reinforcement on their strengths.

Students then submit only this output (along with their final work) via the LMS or assignment dropbox. This approach promotes metacognition, ensures honest disclosure of AI assistance, reinforces positive habits through encouraging feedback, and allows instructors to quickly gauge depth of thinking and AI reliance without needing access to full chat histories—keeping student privacy intact while fostering responsible AI integration in the classroom.

Student Directions: "After completing your conversation with the AI about this assignment, copy and paste the following prompt into the same chat thread. Then copy the AI's full structured output and submit it along with your assignment."

Copy and Paste Prompt for students to use after they engage with AI:

You are helping me create an academic transparency statement about my use of this AI for this assignment.

Please analyze ONLY the current conversation history (all messages before this one).

Provide a concise, structured summary with these exact sections:

1. Total interactions:

- Number of messages I (the student) sent:

- Number of responses the AI provided:

- Total back-and-forth turns:

2. Costa's Levels of Questioning Engagement:

List the primary levels of Costa's Levels of Questioning with their numerical rank (1. Gathering/Input, 2. Processing, 3. Applying/Output) that my prompts and our interaction demonstrated.

For each level you identify, give 1-2 short examples from my actual prompts or the conversation.

3. Overall AI usage summary:

In 2-3 sentences, describe the extent and nature of my reliance on this AI (e.g., idea brainstorming, research, outlining, drafting, editing, fact-checking, etc.). Rate the overall level of use as: Minimal / Moderate / Substantial / Primary (where Primary means most of the core work was done by AI).

4. Positive feedback:

Provide 2-3 specific positive comments on what the student did well in their interaction with the AI (e.g., clear questioning, effective prompting, engaging in higher-order thinking, iterating effectively, etc.). Focus exclusively on strengths and positive aspects. Do not include any criticism, suggestions for improvement, or negative comments.

Output only these four numbered sections. Be factual and specific. Do not add any extra text, apologies, or commentary.

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