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Workshop Series

Collaborating with Generative AI in the Classroom

Come learn (more) about Generative AI and how to apply it in your classroom during this four-part workshop series!

REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP SERIES!

Registration is open until Friday, January 17th.

Facilitated by AI Faculty Fellow Dr. Mark Mabrito, Professor of English, this four-part workshop series provides participants with skills/ideas for incorporating GenAI in their classrooms. By the end of the workshop series, participants will have created an “original” assignment or activity that leverages GenAI deliberately and strategically based on evidence-based practices and student learning outcomes for that task/activity. Dr. Mabrito will emphasize using GenAI in the classroom to promote critical thinking and transparency among students. Dr. Mabrito will provide links/resources throughout the series to enhance the participant experience. 

Faculty members who actively engage in each workshop will be awarded a digital badge. Furthermore, those who attend all four workshops in the series will receive a certificate from the Center for Faculty Excellence, in addition to the four badges. Registered participants are expected to commit to attending all workshops in the series to earn a certificate.

Workshop Meeting Dates

All workshops are on a Tuesday from 12:30-1:45 p.m.

  • Workshop 1, Tuesday, Feb 4, 12:30 to 1:45 p.m., virtual
  • Workshop 2, Tuesday, Feb 25, 12:30-1:45 p.m., virtual
  • Workshop 3, Tuesday, March 25, 12:30 to 1:45 p.m., virtual
  • Workshop 4, Tuesday, April 9, 12:30 to 1:45 p.m., virtual

Workshop 1: Introduction to GenAI in the Classroom and Prompt Crafting

Workshop Objectives:

  • Understand different levels of engagement with GenAI in the classroom
  • Learn basic frameworks and structures for prompt crafting
  • Understand how different large language models (LLMs) may operate differently
  • Discover and create ways of introducing students to GenAI

Workshop 2: AI Me – Promoting Transparency and Critical Thinking with GenAI

Workshop Objectives:

  • Learn how GenAI can be used to enhance an existing or create a new assignment/activity
  • Learn how GenAI may contribute to cognitive offloading in the context of an assignment/course
  • Understand how to promote critical thinking and transparency when students work with GenAI
  • Leverage guidelines for creating AI-enhanced assignments
  • Create an AI-enhanced assignment

Workshop 3: Refining and Assessing an AI-Enhanced Assignment – Considering Custom AI Tools and Other Approaches to “Supercharge” Your Assignment

Workshop Objectives:

  • Consider how to integrate custom AI tools into your AI-enhanced assignment
  • Create a custom rubric for your AI-enhanced assignment
  • Reflect on the possibilities and challenges of designing/implementing AI-enhanced assignments for the classroom

Workshop 4: Show and Tell

Workshop Objectives:

  • Participants share/highlight their work/projects from the workshop series

Past Workshop Series

‘TILT” Your Assignments

The Transparency in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education project (TILT Higher Ed) is an award-winning national educational development and research project that helps faculty to implement a transparent teaching framework that promotes college students’ success.

Transparent instruction seems to benefit students across the disciplines and at all levels of expertise. The benefits for students in TILT studies were statistically significant, and the gains for underserved students were larger (with effect sizes in the medium to large range). The gains are in three areas: 1) perceived skill development, 2) belonging, 3) confidence. (Winkelmes et al, 2016). There were greater benefits (medium to large in magnitude) for underserved students (first-generation, ethnically underrepresented, low-income).

Part 1: Introduction to TILT Workshop

Part 2: TILT Your Assignment Workshop

 

Level Up Your Teaching

Are you ready to take your teaching to the next level?!?  Watch recordings of the sessions below to “level up” student engagement, the feedback you give, your syllabi, and your use of Brightspace.

  • Brightspace: Grades
    Learn how to create grade item, release final grades to students, and more!
  • Student Engagement
    Learn about the factors that impact student engagement and get ideas for how you can create an engaged learning environment.
  • Brightspace: Mastery Tools
    Learn how to leverage templates, awards, and rubrics. Then observe how Kathryn Rowberg utilizes rubrics in her courses.
  • Giving Feedback
    Learn about the qualities of effective feedback, strategies for getting students to read and use feedback, and tips for being more efficient in giving feedback.
  • Brightspace: Communication Tools
    Learn how to use intelligent agents, instant messaging, and the activity feed. Then observe how Serdar Turedi utilizes intelligent agents in his courses.
  • Syllabus
    Learn about the purposes of a syllabus, the impact of language and tone, and how to make your syllabus more engaging.