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In this sample Human Capital assignment, students practice creating a total compensation and benefits package for a specific role. Through this process, students practice researching and analyzing market trends, building and delivering a competitive package and assessing the usefulness of AI for this task. AI Tool Google Gemini / Gems Summary Students will use AI to analyze information about compensation packages for a specific role and industry. Using these insights, plus p

The Kaggle 5-Day Gen AI Intensive Course with Google is a free, self-paced deep dive into AI fundamentals. The curriculum comprises five units covering concepts and techniques for prompt engineering, databases, AI agents, domain-specific LLMs, and machine learning operations. The course could be great for students or professors with prior experience in coding and machine learning who want to get deeper into working with AI tools. For casual learners with more general topic-le

When I was a kid, storybooks were my everything. My favorite was the Geronimo Stilton series. I could spend hours flipping through those colorful pages, staring at the illustrations, and losing myself in all sorts of magical worlds. Books were my best friends. I had so many of them that after a while, my parents didn’t know what to do with the stacks piling up around the house. I didn’t just enjoy reading stories, I loved listening to them from my parents. Storytelling was, a

Brainstorming is one of the most fun parts of a design project. It is that moment when ideas are flowing freely that you can feel creativity taking shape in real time. For me, brainstorming always felt like something that I had to do alone and then get my ideas reviewed from my mentor. I didn’t imagine it happening inside a classroom along with my peers, at least not in a way that felt exciting. That changed when one of my professors, Professor Morales, introduced us to a bra

Photo credit: Rina Deshpande, 2026 I recently attended the NYU TeachTalk, Device-Free Classrooms to Cultivate Connection and Promote Presence. As I entered the NYU CTL Cornerstone, greeters directed us to sign in and enjoy NYU Teacher Appreciation Week refreshments and gifts, including pens and notebooks. There was an enjoyable hum of conversation. I introduced myself to the professor seated next to me. “We are proud to host and welcome you to our first in-person TeachTalk. N

The blog was co-authored by Nexus Team Members: Rina (blog lead), Elvin, Casey, Jonathan The Learning & Teaching Nexus Team at NYU SPS recently watched The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptomist, a 2026 documentary directed by Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell. In this post we share a collection of individual reflections on the film and perspectives on the impact of generative AI (GenAI) on teaching and learning. Casey The juxtaposition posed by The AI Doc: Or How I Became a