Upcoming Events
Self-Development in the Classroom - The Importance of Critical Practice
Date: Friday, February 21st, 2025
Time: 11:00 am- 12:00 pm
Location: Zoom
While AI is becoming increasingly present in education, it is important students understand the ongoing importance of making room for dedicated development of their critical skills outside ofgenerative software. In an era of mis/disinformation, and algorithmic control of identity, desire, and belief, there must be space made in which students understand their own agential power in development of critical reading, writing, and thinking skills. This presentation suggests that we build spaces in which students use their intrinsic interests to become curious, to explore, and to discover without relying on autofill, auto edit, and LLMs providing “easy” shortcuts to answers.Along with examining how this kind of self-guided seeking behavior impacts learning, evidence from neuroscience research will reveal it is the tangential and peripheral information gathered in this process that leads to exponential personal growth and creative capacity over time.
Navigating AI Fluency: Content, Language, and Meaning-Making
Date: Friday, February 28th, 2025
Time: 11:00 am- 12:00 pm
Location: Zoom
Memory is identity, and continuously builds the foundations and boundaries of being. It’s what we rely on to form our beliefs, and the decision-making and actions which result from those beliefs. While AI is incredibly useful in the right contexts, we must ensure that we and our students understand those contexts, and develop fluency in the use of AI, as well as understand how AI is used in advertising, politics, and everyday media to create biases and beliefs that move us to action. While we should embrace our transition into an AI-assisted world, we must simultaneously remain aware of the dangers of atrophied agency and the passive acceptance of meaning. Along with examples of how AI fluency can be explored in classrooms, this presentation will offer specific examples of AI fluency in action.
Upcoming Events
Information coming soon.
Join the CTE office hours at the beginning of Spring 2025 to discuss any teaching-related
questions you might have in terms of course design, assessments, active-learning, and teaching
resources. Days/times with corresponding zoom links can be found in the flyer.
