Upcoming Events
Artificially Intelligent: Resisting AI in Modern Learning | Monday, April 20 | 2-3:30 PM ET | 11:00 AM -12:30 PM PT
Kyle Pittman | The Evergreen State College
While ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI) has been around for some time in various forms, recent developments around generative AI have caused a surge of public interest in its capabilities and many industries and fields have been enticed to leverage the various AI tools to offset workload and increase productivity. Education in particular has been hit hard with the inception of generative AI tools that seem to hinder the learning process rather than support it. This workshop will explore the impacts of AI on learning and provide sensible ways to address and resist its use in the classroom.
Advancing Equity Work with Generative AI | Friday, May 29 | 2-3:30 PM ET | 11:00 AM -12:30 PM PT
Jeremy Winn | Gray’s Harbor College
Generative AI may be a cloud over higher education, but there are silver linings. In this interactive session, Jeremy Winn shows how generative AI can help us build stronger mental models, deepen our understanding of equity work, and take practical steps toward more equitable institutions. Participants will explore a topic of their own using AI and leave with actionable strategies they can apply immediately.
Pause and Seek the Miracle | Wednesday, June 24 | 2-3:30 PM ET | 11:00 AM -12:30 PM PT
emareena danielles | ambar martinez
It is hard to learn or teach when we are afraid, and we are living in fearful times. When students look to us for assurance, what truths can we offer? What assurances or comfort can we offer ourselves, or to each other?
There is no one answer, and perhaps that is the most important truth – that each gathering of people has an opportunity to create a generous, miraculous truth that only can be created by them. As educators, it is our gift and our privilege to guide and nurture that exploration, even more so during these uncertain times. The Pause calls us first to recognize and feel in our bodies the present moment, next to orient ourselves to its history, context and circumstances, to then integrate what we feel, observe, and receive, move into imagining potential outcomes, and finally to practice the learning as what moves us toward the outcomes we choose.
Join us for a lightly facilitated conversation about seeking the miracles in uncertainty, nurturing the small, mundane moments that that bring us closer, and remind us to fall in love with learning about each other again.
Previous Workshops
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