About me
Lars R. Jones, Ph.D., is a teaching-track faculty member in the School of Arts and Communication at Florida Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1999. Trained at Harvard University in the History of Art and Architecture, his work bridges intellectual history, pedagogy, moral and cognitive development, and the redesign of student learning in AI-enabled classrooms. He has chaired multiple university committees on artificial intelligence and has spent the past several years integrating generative AI into college courses through structured, dialogue-based assignments. His current work focuses on helping students use AI to make reasoning visible rather than to produce finished answers, including the development of Core Reference Extracts, Levels of AI Engagement, and assignment designs that require assumptions, alternatives, comparison, and justified conclusions. He is the author of "Using AI Without Losing Thinking: A Guide to Structured Inquiry, Visible Reasoning, & Prompt Engineering" and its companion student guide.
