Faculty Technology Day 2024 Teaching and AI: Preparing for an AI-Driven World
Wed, May 22 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Faculty Technology Day serves as our annual capstone celebration in gratitude to the faculty before the summer break. The day will feature exciting keynote presentations and breakout sessions on the latest technologies affecting education, especially Generative AI. We will also offer hands-on workshops, food, refreshments, and door prizes.
9:00 Arrival and Breakfast Refreshments
9:30 Welcome Remarks
- Anand Padmanabhan (CIO, Vice President of Information Technology)
- Tania Tetlow, J.D. (President)
- Dennis C. Jacobs, Ph.D. (Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Professor of Chemistry)
10:00 Keynote
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.
- Keynote Description
- 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.
- Speaker Bios
- José Antonio Bowen has won teaching awards at Stanford and Georgetown, was Dean at Miami and Southern Methodist University and President of Goucher College. He has written over 100 scholarly articles and has appeared as a musician with Stan Getz, Bobby McFerrin, and others. He is the author of Teaching Naked (2012, the winner of the Ness Award for Best Book on Higher Education), and Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers using Relationships, Resilience and Reflection (2021) and Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (2024) with C. Edward Watson. Stanford honored him as a Distinguished Alumni Scholar (2010) and he has presented keynotes and workshops at more than 300 campuses and conferences 46 states and 17 countries around the world. In 2018, he was awarded the Ernest L. Boyer Award (for significant contributions to American higher education) and he is now a senior fellow for the American Association of Colleges and Universities.
Edward Watson, Ph.D. is Associate Vice President for Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation and Executive Director of Open Educational Resources and Digital Innovation with the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and formerly Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Georgia. Dr. Watson is nationally recognized for expertise in general education best practice and reform, evidence-based teaching and learning practices, as a futurist for higher education. He is also an expert in artificial intelligence in higher education, faculty development, open education resources, ePortfolios, and digital equity.
11:00 Breakout Sessions
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Breakout Sessions
Our two keynote speakers and expert Fordham faculty and staff will then offer breakout sessions throughout the rest of the day in the following tracks:
- Pedagogy Track
- AI Literacy & Prompt Engineering: How to Use AI
Jose Bowen, Ph.D. (Keynote speaker)
Building Networked Learning Communities: Collaborative Digital Humanities Projects Between High Schools and Universities
Katherina Fostano and Maximiliano Aguilar (Art History Department)
Lecture-Based Instructional Design Using AI
Steven D’Agustino, Ph.D. (Director of Online Learning, Office of the Provost) - Assessment Track
- Harnessing Technology for Authentic Assessment
Judith Jones, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Philosophy)
AI and Academic Integrity
C. Edward Watson, Ph.D. (Keynote speaker)
AI Writing and Grading: Raising the Bar
Jose Bowen, Ph.D. (Keynote speaker)
AI Assignments and Assessments
C. Edward Watson, Ph.D. (Keynote speaker) - Research Track
- AI and Healthcare: Hype vs. Reality
Navid Asgari, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Strategy & Statistics)
Give Your Course a Facelift! Using AI to Refresh or Create a Course
Eugeniu Grigorescu and Michael Taylor (Graduate School of Education)
“Though this be madness.…” Methods of Managing AI in the Library
Jeannie Hoag and Mike Magilligan (Walsh Family Library Team) - Security and Praxis Track
- Mitigating Risks while Embracing AI Applications in Education
Josephine Law (Senior IT Risk Analyst, Office of Information Technology)
Microsoft Copilot, your OpenAI Powered Teaching/Learning Assistant
Chris White (Senior Specialist, Education, Microsoft)
Robots + Pictures (What could possibly go wrong?)
Shawn Hill (Instructional Technologist, Office of Information Technology)
Accessibility and AI: Opportunities, Challenges, and Best Practices
Heather V. Hill (Instructional Technologist, Office of Information Technology)
How to Build a Large Language Model
Ruhul Amin, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Computer Science)
4:00 IT Updates, Raffle and Reception
Wine and cheese hour
The full agenda will be forthcoming in a follow-up email and details will be available on Fordham’s Info Tech News website.
As always, we will offer breakfast, a hot lunch, raffle, and wine and cheese afterwards.
We look forward to participating in this day of conversation, discovery, and exchange of views with you.
