Generative AI Webinars

Summer 2024 Generative AI Webinars

This summer, Equity Unbound held a series of webinars during their MyFest conference, many of which were centered on generative AI. You are sure to find a session relevant to you here!

Leaning In & Leading w/Students: An Open Pedagogical Approach to Exploring AI w/Students (40 min)

Jul 25, 2024: Lance Eaton presents a case study of how College Unbound worked with students to develop their institutional policy on the use of generative AI for students and faculty. From there, the session explored through conversation, activities, and sharing how we can think and learn with students about how to critically use generative AI in general and in our respective disciplines. 

 

Humanizing Academic Writing Pedagogies in the Age of AI: Centering Voice (1.5 hrs)

Jun 25, 2024: Heba Fathelbab and Mariah Fairley discuss how students often struggle to engage with academic writing, expressing feelings of disconnection, discomfort and even dislike. Such feelings may lead some students to turn to AI, often employing it uncritically in order to complete their writing assignments, thus losing their voice. Humanizing the writing classroom through centering the element of voice may offer a great way to address these concerns. 

Understanding vs. Intelligence: Some (Current) Limits of AI Writers (1 hr)

Jun 4, 2024:
Mark Merino facilitates the MYFest session held on 3 June 2024. The phrase “artificial intelligence” can be quite misleading, and the difference between intelligence and understanding can be disastrous. Join this exploration of the limits of machine intelligence.

AI and Authorship: Navigating the Ethics of AI-Assisted Writing (1 hr)

Jun 24, 2024: Laura Dumin asks:  Who are we and how do we show that in our writing? That is one of the big questions that surrounds how AI might be used in writing assignments and professional publications. How do we ensure that our voices and ideas are shining through and how do we determine when to acknowledge AI’s help in bringing our ideas to the page.

AI for Writing Feedback: Supporting a Human-Centered Writing Process (50 min)

Jun 27, 2024:  In this interactive session, Anna Mills and participants test out various forms of targeted AI writing feedback. How can AI feedback be incorporated to support students’ development of their own voice and ideas and also to give students practice questioning plausible AI advice? Can we put AI in a limited place where it supplements the responses of human readers and stimulates student thinking without telling them what to write? 

AI Policies and Guidelines: Views from Three Universities (1 hr)

Jul 25, 2024

Sukaina Walji, Hoda Mostafa, and Christina Hendricks explain that in their universities in South Africa, Egypt, and Canada, they have been involved in creating guidelines and other resources about generative AI in academic work, and share our experiences, successes, and challenges. They invite participants in the session to share their own questions, concerns, and experiences related to resources and guidelines on generative AI in post-secondary or other educational settings.

Using Generative AI to Interrogate Assessment Practices (1 hr)

Jul 25, 2024

Dani Dilkes leads this session, noting that many Generative AI conversations focus on academic integrity and preventative measures so that established assessment practices remain secure. However, it could be argued that rather than viewing generative AI as a detriment to assessment, it could be seen as a tool for revealing the hidden curriculum of assessment and identifying ineffective assessment designs (the assessments that are not doing what we think they are). This session explores how Generative tools can be used to interrogate and improve assessment designs.

Skeptical Approaches to AI Research Tools (48 min)

Jul 4, 2024

Anna Mills's interactive workshop surveys a range of AI-enabled research assistance apps that aim to help us find and analyze sources. We’ll look at general-purpose ones like Perplexity, ChatGPT4o, and Gemini as well as apps geared to academic research such as Elicit, Consensus, Keenious, ResearchRabbit, SciSpace, Scite_, and Undermind. In what ways do they facilitate source retrieval and analysis, and how can they also mislead us? What does wise use of these tools look like? Session slides here: https://bit.ly/SkepticalAIresearch Links to an external site.

Entangled with AI: Tracing Your Agency (1 hr)

Jul 25, 2024: Tim Fawns and Anne-Marie Scott explore the current AI moment with participants from an entangled pedagogy perspective. We begin by sharing how this moment might be challenging some of the things we believe about education, and where problematic assumptions or unconvincing solutions are occurring. Using examples of institutional responses to AI, crowdsourced from participants, we then trace where possibilities for agency might lie in this moment of complexity. 

Get AI Ready: Your Guide to AI Literacy (1 hr)

Jul 25, 2024
Stella Lee facilitates the MYFest session held on 22 July 2024. AI literacy is more than learning how to code. It’s about critically examining and using AI ethically and effectively. In our session, we break down what it means to be AI literate and explore an AI Literacy Framework designed for educators. We cover seven key areas, discuss the essential skills for each, and share practical resources. Join in for an animated discussion and prepare to dig in for some fun activities.

Postplagiarism: Academic Integrity, Equity, & Ethics in the Age of AI & Neurotechnology (1 hr)

Jul 12, 2024: Sarah Elaine Eaton looks at the ethical implications of advancements in artificial intelligence and neurotechnology for education. We look at threats to human dignity and mental integrity, as well as how advanced technology can be used to catalyze equity, inclusion, accessibility, and learner agency. This is not a session about how to use specific tools, but rather how to think broadly about ethics of advanced technology for learning.

Playful Prompting: A Lighter Approach to AI (1.5 hrs)

Jul 4, 2024

Mark Merino asks: How can we respond to the terror of AI? Laughter. Play.

Let’s explore the possibilities and pitfalls of this platform with playful activities to help you dream up uses of AI that expand your creativity.