🍁 Fall Into Learning: Faculty Spotlight – Week 2 🍁
CETLA is excited to continue highlighting the Fall Into Learning with AI challenge in partnership with Faculty Training & Development, featuring innovative ways GCU faculty are using AI to enhance engagement and creativity in the classroom.
This week’s spotlight shines on Kristine Dittman, an instructor at one of GCU’s ABSN sites in Idaho. Kristine found a clever way to bring humor and connection into her NSG-430 Critical Care lab using ChatGPT.
She prompted ChatGPT to create a lighthearted, welcoming image for her students:
“I have a critical care lab coming up, and I would love to post a funny picture for the students. I imagine a nursing student in purple GCU scrubs trying to put together six IV pumps with different medication infusions going into a manikin. The student looks frazzled and unsure about which drugs can be combined into the same tubing via a Y-site connection and which can free flow without a pump. Can you generate this image for me?”
The result was a fun, relatable visual that immediately put students at ease and set a positive, engaging tone for learning.
Kristine’s creativity demonstrates how AI tools can bring fun, relevance, and connection into nursing education—proving that a touch of humor and imagination can make even the most complex concepts more approachable.
CETLA celebrates Kristine for her innovative use of AI and congratulates her on being featured in this week’s Fall Into Learning with AI spotlight!
➡️ Stay tuned as we continue to feature more faculty innovators throughout the month, and follow Faculty Training & Development on LinkedIn for weekly highlights.
