2024 Schedule

This interactive session will discuss what the AI Playground activities are and their benefits to student learning. Examples that can be used across the university setting will be shared and the audience will vote to explore one more in-depth in an “I Do, We Do, You Do” activity.

Students use AI for deeper understanding, study materials, assignment drafting, and round-the-clock feedback. As AI grows, the role of educators must evolve. This session explores how to redesign assessments to develop human abilities and adapt teaching methods to highlight what AI can’t replicate.

Explore cutting-edge AI tools to boost student engagement and build vibrant classroom communities in this workshop. Gain practical skills and strategies to transform your teaching. Ready to inspire and innovate? Elevate your teaching to the next level!

We used Chat GPT or Copilot in both an introductory and an upper-level experimental biology laboratory class to help students forge connections between the concepts and the expected experimental results. We concluded that our methods are an effective way to incorporate AI into STEM lab classes.

Start the clock! In this rapid-fire session, we’ll cover resources, influencers to follow, emerging best practices, individual apps, and more. Get access to a toolkit with all 20 items to take a deeper dive and to support your use of AI in the classroom.

Two experiments with MBA-Level Business Analytics classes were used to explore the nature of ground truth (GT), the assessment foundation for many AI models. Students were surprised by disagreement in their ratings of musical clips, leading to lessons learned about GT creation and understanding.

In this session, we will explore how 3D and 360° technology enhances online learning for an Old Testament Archaeology course. Integrating immersive tech, we transport students to ancient sites, providing a rich, interactive environment.

AI has put writing at risk. Yet we know that writing helps in discovery and learning. It’s time to advocate for writing-to-learn (WTL) activities. I’ll cover WTL research and ways to use AI responsibly to keep the high-impact practice of writing central to university curriculum.

This presentation details an AI-designed lesson plan for ESOL students in higher education to develop information literacy, critical thinking, and English proficiency. Attendees will experience the same lesson and library resources as students, receive adaptable prompts, and learn best practices.

Artificial Intelligence is growing at an ever-increasing speed. New tools, improved methodologies, and updated outputs appear daily! Participants will explore existing tools, learn about risks and how to mitigate them, identify opportunities to integrate AI into coursework, and build an AI policy.

Learn about a method for identifying relevant essential skills and content in an AI world. Then, see the method applied to a series of six practical AI learning activities used by West Chester University professors. Leave with at least one idea for AI grounded learning activity you could use.

See how AI can enhance educators' reflective practices. Interact with a model based on the Decoding the Disciplines framework. Imagine ways AI can support your reflective practices and enhance student learning as the influence of AI grows.

This paper offers a history of education from a media ecology perspective. Examining the philosophy of technology, it attempts to imagine potential futures in higher education related to generative AI tools grounded in lessons learned from the past.

This method of Low-Risk or No-Risk quizzes, combined with self-reflection and communication with other individual students, instructor, and classroom as a whole, to allow for clarification and an opportunity to identify future study needs.

This study aims to explore preservice teachers’ (PSTs) experiences with ChatGPT in designing a culturally relevant mathematical task. Overall, PSTs had positive perceptions about ChatGPT, but they had varying levels of task modification and the critical engagement with the ChatGPT’s responses.

This presentation will share practical strategies for integrating feedback from AI tools into first-year writing classes. Activities including journaling, guided interactive dialogue with AI tools, and reflection promote responsible usage, critical thinking, and improved metacognition.

Case Study Presentation, Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Technology in Construction. I will walk through teaching methods, class assignments and the class final project, all of which utilized AI.

This presentation reports on the findings of the Demystifying AI Workshop for educators that aimed to bridge the knowledge and skills gap in AI literacy among educators in underserved schools in Los Angeles County, California.

Join us to discover how we blazed the trails in creating our institution’s first AI course. We’ll describe the course design, module content, and benefits to learner success. You’ll gain insights and strategies to implement at your own institution. Together, let’s blaze the trails!

So, AI. The good news is, only one thing has to change: Everything. But we've seen this before, right? Let's look at this most recent technology revolution in light of some previous ones and see if that might give us some hints as to how we can plan for the road ahead.

Explore how AI is reshaping the course design process by simplifying development and amplifying its impact. Discover real-life applications to leverage AI to boost multimedia quality, streamline content creation, and achieve crystal-clear communication to ensure faculty and student success.

Join a panel of UA Faculty Fellows who have brought their scholarship into their engagement with students. Before AI grabs our work, we have the opportunity to apply it first in our classrooms as we enhance the theoretical, practical, and creative competencies of our students. Reignite your passion!

AI tools generate a product effortlessly before the process of creation begins, challenging educators to redefine the value of process. Session participants will discuss key questions and brainstorm classroom activities for this new world of product-before-process in a highly interactive session.

AI pioneers will share novel pathways in high impact practices resulting in student success. We’ll show new approaches for enhancing collaborative projects, undergraduate research, internship experiences, and course design models. Discover strategies so you can become your institution’s AI pioneer!

Integrating AI into lab courses enhances student engagement while preparing them for an AI-driven world. This presentation explores using ChatGPT-4 to enable genetics students to create and implement lab modules. It includes practical insights and resources adaptable to diverse teaching areas.

Discover how generative AI and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) strategies combine to transform education for neurodiverse learners. This session offers practical approaches to enhance engagement, personalize learning, and support all students effectively.

Instructors in general education public speaking courses face the pedagogical challenge of ensuring students learn to be ethical and effective communicators. This presentation offers instructors with informed insights and practical suggestions for integrating ChatGPT into public speaking pedagogy.

The thought experiment engages students with group work and discussion, lowers student intimidation by removing the risk of wrong answers, and further engages students by infusing the conversation with additional areas of study the students may be pursuing in other courses.