Join us on Tuesday, May 21 from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. MT, RSVP here
The rapid popularization of generative AI tools has created new challenges and opportunities for educators while raising complex questions about how we can best prepare our students to work with AI responsibly and ethically in their future professional, personal, and civic lives. Please join us in the unfolding experience of understanding this emergent technology at Summer Studio 2024: Teaching & Learning with AI. This full-day event features invited speakers and hands-on work time. This event is open to the CU Community. (This is an in-person event with a hybrid option for those with barriers to physical attendance.)
8:30-9:00 a.m. Doors open, check-in, light breakfast snacks with coffee + tea service
9:00-9:30 a.m. Welcome, Purpose + Grounding, Overview of day
9:30-9:45 a.m. Transition + participant mingle
9:45-10:45 a.m. Speaker #1- Maha Bali
10:45-11:00 a.m. Transition + participant mingle
11:00-12:00 p.m. In-person, Hands on work session: AI Literacy In Action with Lee Frankel-Goldwater
Online, Participant Round Table Discussion: Critical AI Literacy
12:00-12:30 p.m. Break & Grab lunch (Boxed lunches will be provided for in-person participants)
12:30–1:30 p.m. Speaker #2 - Marc Watkins
1:30-1:45 p.m. Transition & Coffee/Tea break
1:45-2:45 p.m. In-person, Hands on work session: Teaching and learning to co-write ethically with generative AI with Diane Sieber
Online, Participant Round Table Discussion: Using a framework to guide student's use of AI
2:45- 3:00 p.m. Closure + Departure
4:00-6:00 p.m. Meet us at Junkyard Social for our Open Mic event: Hot & Bothered by AI!
Speaker:
Maha Bali
Maha Bali is a professor of practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at The American University in Cairo (AUC). She has a PhD in education from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. She co-founded virtually connecting, a grassroots movement that challenges academic gatekeeping at conferences. Also, Bali is a co-facilitator of Equity Unbound; an equity-focused, open, connected intercultural learning curriculum, which has also branched into academic community activities. Such activities are Continuity with Care, Socially Just Academia, a collaboration with OneHE: Community-building Resources and MYFest, an innovative three-month professional learning journey.
Mark Watkins
Mark Watkins is an Academic Innovation Fellow, Lecturer of Writing and Rhetoric, and serves as the Director of the AI Summer Institute for Teachers of Writing at the University of Mississippi. He cochairs the AI working group within his department and serves as a liaison with other departments on campus, exploring generative AI’s impact on teaching and learning. In addition to being awarded a Pushcart Prize, Marc has been awarded a 2018 Blackboard Catalyst Award for Teaching and Learning, a WOW Fellowship, and a Sarah ISOM Fellowship. His research includes OER, open pedagogy, creative writing, digital humanities, AI in education, and grant writing.
