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Faculty Technology Day is our annual gathering that brings faculty together to learn about new teaching and research strategies while offering faculty the opportunity to discuss and share interests and insights about technology with colleagues. This year’s focus was on “Teaching and Thinking with AI,” providing a platform for insightful discussions on AI’s role in education and practical strategies for faculty to integrate AI in the classroom.
Explore these resources to gain a deeper understanding of how AI is influencing classrooms and discover strategies for leveraging these changes in your own teaching.
Teaching and Thinking with A.I.
Co-presented by José Antonio Bowen, Ph.D. and C. Edward Watson, Ph.D., the authors of the upcoming book, Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning.
The excitement (and panic) surrounding A.I. is shattering expectations around assignments, assessment, class preparation and attendance, while challenging us to build more future-proof and inclusive classrooms. AI is rapidly changing how humans work and think. AI is also changing how we think about average and AI is even changing creativity. This session will give you a different way to think about AI and introduce the workshops to come.
Anne Gibbons created graphic recordings during the keynote and some of the other sessions throughout the day, click on the thumbnails below to view the full size image.
Teaching and Thinking with AI
Co-presented by José Antonio Bowen, Ph.D. and C. Edward Watson, Ph.D.,the keynote speakers at FTD 24 and authors of the book,Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning.
The excitement (and panic) surrounding A.I. is shattering expectations around assignments, assessment, class preparation and attendance, while challenging us to build more future-proof and inclusive classrooms.
AI is rapidly changing how humans work and think. AI is also changing how we think about average and AI is even changing creativity. This session will give you a different way to think about AI and introduce the workshops to come.
Harnessing Technology for Authentic Assessment
Presented by Judith Jones, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Philosophy and Special Advisor to the Provost For Teaching and Learning)
Authentic Assessment has been advanced as one way of mitigating negative impacts of GAI on student learning, and expanding the positive impacts of classroom experience for both students and faculty. But in addition to being a “way around” one impact of technology, it is also a place in which we can harness technology in service to authenticity in teaching and learning.
AI Writing and Grading: Raising the Bar
Presented by José Antonio Bowen, Ph.D., Keynote Speaker
Writing has always been assisted by technology: erasers, typewriters, and computers all changed the process and how writing is a form of thinking. How do we prepare students for a new era of AI-assisted writing? Is prompt-writing also writing?
The rise of spelling and grammar checking changed grading and allowed more focus on style and content and AI could do the same. There are still ways to help students learn to write without AI, but we need to be intentional about process and version history. Writing with AI creates a need to raise the bar on quality, but also a need for new rubrics and grading policies.
AI and Academic Integrity
Presented by C. Edward Watson, Ph.D., Keynote speaker
While AI offers a number of opportunities for higher education, it has also created a number of challenges in terms of academic integrity. Software companies were quick to market with solutions they touted as AI detectors, and competitors emerged with tools that promised students they could edit text to make an essay invisible to AI detection. This session will explore the current AI/academic integrity landscape and suggest meaningful and fair-minded paths forward for campuses, including guidance regarding syllabus statements, assignment policies, and practices faculty and academic honesty offices should adopt to move forward in ways that are fair to our students and preserve the integrity of our courses.
AI Assignments, Assessments, and More
Presented by C. Edward Watson, Ph.D., Keynote speaker
All assignments are now AI Assignments. In the same way that the ease of finding information on the internet forced faculty to rethink what homework students did and how we wanted them to do it, we will all need an AI strategy for assignments and assessment. We will consider both potential strategies: making your assignments AI-Resistant or AI-Inclusive. Since most work will soon be AI-assisted work, we can help prepare students for the jobs of the future with assignments that require or suggest that students use AI to assist in completing them.
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