Learning Café
Prompting Care: Using Open Pedagogy and Generative AI to Teach Empathy, Ethics, and Agency
Date Friday, Dec 5 Time – Room: Charlottenburg III
What if teaching AI could be an act of empathy? This Learning Café introduces the Rhetorical Prompting Method (RPM), an open framework that helps students and faculty engage with generative AI critically, ethically, and reflectively. Grounded in open pedagogy, RPM reframes prompting as mindful inquiry that fosters care for both process and learner. Drawing on evidence from thousands of learners, the session demonstrates how this approach supports metacognitive growth, builds confidence, and encourages ethical AI use. Explore openly licensed tools and strategies to scale equitable, interdisciplinary AI literacy while preserving student agency.
Jeanne Law and her method were supported by:
- Kylee Johnson
- Vara Nath
- Ruth Sikhamani
- Kaylee Ward
Jeanne Law
Professor of English and Coordinator of Graduate Certificate in AI & Writing Technologies , Kennesaw State University
Dr. Jeanne Beatrix Law is a professor of English and coordinator of the new graduate certificate in AI Writing Technologies at Kennesaw State University. Her research specialties including multimodal languaging, custom GPTs for creative and applied writing use cases, and generative AI technologies for professional communication. Her public scholarship includes scaling oral histories into large language models, transforming open educational resources into interactive GPT textbooks, and teaching generative AI for grant writing and everyday use to multiple industry audiences. Jeanne is the co-author of The Writer’s Loop: A Guide to College Writing (Macmillan) and is a founding author for MacMillan Education’s Multimodal Mondays and Bits on Bots blog series, to which she regularly contributes. She has authored chapters on generative AI in edited collections from The University of Illinois Press and Computers & Composition. Her work is also regularly featured in print and digital public media, including The Chronicle of Higher Education and Government Technology Magazine. She writes for The Conversation and is the lead researcher for the nationally recognized #ATLStudentMovement digital oral history project. She has authored eight courses on Coursera on generative AI use, with more than 8,000 enrolled learners, featuring her Rhetorical Prompting Method (RPM). She is the lead researcher on both external and internal grants to pilot this method as prompt-first AI literacy. Jeanne also serves as a faculty mentor for the AAC&U’s AI Pedagogy Institute and is on the educator leadership council for Boodle Box and the educator leadership community for OpenAI. She has been called on as an AI use case expert by private industry and the University System of Georgia on numerous occasions, including serving on a plenary panel and conducting two prompt engineering workshops for the inaugural USG AI Summit. She delivered the opening plenary for the AAC&U’s 2025 Digital Innovations Forum. Jeanne has presented and published numerous times since 2022 for professional, public, and academic audience on the ethical uses of generative AI, including leading prompt engineering workshops in 2023 and 2024 at Open Educa Berlin (OEB). Her digital and f2f audiences total more than 10,000. Her educational passion is making sure that generative AI use cases are accessible to everyone. Her personal passion is her service Dog, Henck. Visit her Kennesaw State University faculty page for current information: https://facultyweb.kennesaw.edu/jlaw29/index.php and on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanne-beatrix-law-phd-a05b2391/