WITT 2025: Making AI Work for You and Your Students

December 12, 2024 /

Save the Date 1/16/25 – Winter Institute on Teaching with Technology: Making AI Work for You and Your Students  

Are you curious about the AI landscape and what AI can do for you and your students? You’ll learn how AI can streamline course planning, enhance assignment design, and support student engagement. Whether you’re new to AI or already experimenting with it, this workshop has you covered with actionable strategies and tools for faculty by faculty.   

Event Details  

Title: Making AI Work for You and Your Students  
Date: Thursday, January 16, 2025  
Time: 1:00–4:00 PM  
Location: LITS Room 181  
Treats Provided  

What You’ll Get Out of It  

  • Syllabus Policy: Draft an AI policy that reflects your course goals for AI usage.  
  • Save Time: Discover practical applications to streamline your workload.  
  • Develop Student Activities: Hear about assignments and activities that you can use with your students to learn how AI can enhance their learning. 
  • AI and AI: Learn tools to mitigate potential challenges with academic integrity.  

Mark your calendar and stay tuned for more details. We look forward to seeing you there! 

Agenda:

1:00-1:15 Welcome from Kristen Eshleman and David Andres
1:15-1:45 Faculty Highlight: Madalene Spezialetti FYSM – Didn’t Humans Use to do that?
1:45-1:55 break
2:00-2:40 Making AI work for you:

  • AI for Teaching 
  • AI for Learning 
  • AI for Research

2:40-3:20 Alex Helberg Writing With AI student presentation

  • A.I. and Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, and Intellectual Property
  • “Hallucinations,” Fabrications, and Misinformation generated by LLMs
  • Ethical Consequences of Using A.I. Tools – Impacts on Environment and Labor

3:30 – 4:00 Syllabus workshop with Josh King, Brianna Halladay and John Ashby
4:00 Feel free to stick around if you want to continue informal conversations or get some hands on time with various AI environments.