Panels and Workshops

Wednesday, September 23 | 1:30PM – 2:50PM  | Wieboldt 310 D/E 

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This workshop explores practical approaches for translating free expression and open inquiry into classroom practice. Participants will examine strategies that foster inquiry, encourage intellectual risk-taking, support productive disagreement, and help students engage evidence and differing perspectives with rigor and curiosity. 

Thursday, October 8 | 2:00PM – 3:20PM | Wieboldt 310 D/E and Hybrid

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How can we design and deliver lectures that both effectively convey content and actively engage students? Extensive research consistently shows that active learning improves student outcomes (e.g., Freeman et al, 2014) but can be challenging to incorporate in lecture-based classes. In this workshop, we will explore the elements and features of successful lectures, focusing on low prep, short activities that can enhance student engagement without sacrificing content. Faculty and instructors will leave with specific strategies and activities, such as retrieval practice, thinking routines, and reflective pausing, they can use in class tomorrow.

This workshop will be held hybrid with attendance options on Zoom and in person.  

Wednesday, October 14 | 3:00PM – 4:20PM | Wieboldt 310 D/E

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How can we establish a classroom environment in which discussion is active and inclusive? In this session, we will explore the aims of teaching by discussion, how to meet our learning goals through class discussion, and strategies for encouraging student participation. 

In this session, Reflections on Teaching With AI, panelists will discuss approaches to allowing or leveraging student AI use in a range of courses, reflecting on considerations such as the learning goals at stake, guidance and constraints provided to students, and assessment.

Panelists:

• Jean Clipperton, Computational Social Science, on AI as a replacement, supplement, or assistant
• Borja Sotomayor, Computer Science, on the use of AI in the classroom
• Benjamin Morgan, English, on an opt-in/opt-out approach to AI use
• Tomer Yehoshua-Sandak, Economics, on collaborative learning with customized AI tutors

Moderator: Joe Lampert, Executive Director, CCTL

View the recording here.

In this session, Reflections on Teaching Without AI, panelists will discuss approaches to encouraging student learning without AI, reflecting on learning goals, and considerations such as student motivation and policy, and assessment design.

Panelists:

• Damien Bright, Master of Arts Program in Social Sciences, on oral exams
• Zosia Krusberg, Physics, on developing students’ ethical AI use and low-stakes quizzing
• Melih Levi, Arts & Humanities Collegiate Division, on extended in-class writing
• Lisa Rosen, Committee on Education, on research translation as an alternative to the research paper

Moderator: Joe Lampert, Executive Director, CCTL

View the recording here.

In this session, Reflections on Teaching About AI, panelists will discuss courses that approach AI as area of intellectual engagement for students, whether the aim is to investigate the cultural, social, or philosophical implications of the technology, or focus on AI as a subject or a tool for inquiry itself.

Panelists:

• Jason Bridges, Philosophy, on Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence: Mind and Model
• James Evans, Sociology, on AI Agents for Social Science and Society
• Russell Johnson, Divinity School, on Golems, Angels, and AI
• Mina Lee, Computer Science, on Writing with AI

Moderator: Joe Lampert, Executive Director, CCTL

View the recording here.