AI Literacy and Prompt Engineering

Duration: 90 minutes

Presenter: José Antonio Bowen

Both faculty and students need a new digital literacy to apply the increased critical thinking needed in the internet age, and AI literacy is a critical new skill every teacher and graduate needs. The two largest complaints about AI responses are that they are either wrong or boring, but both are often the result of poor or bland prompting. AI prompts need to provide more human context and be more literal than the ones we tend to use with a search engine. Since AI uses natural human language, it also needs human-level communication precision.: asking your AI to slow down and think more carefully can greatly improve results! The features of better prompts-- task, format, voice and context--are direct extensions of the critical writing and thinking skills we already teach and value. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn how to find the right AI tool for the task, while comparing and practicing with different AIs.

Presented by CVC@ONE

VoiceThread Basics 2: Groups and Secure Sharing

This is a hands-on workshop. We will begin to explore the features available to VoiceThreaders. Participants will learn how to create groups and subgroups, set sharing permissions within those groups, and privately share VoiceThreads with individuals.

Presented by VoiceThread

AI Grading, Detection, and Policies

Duration: 90 minutes

Presenter: José Antonio Bowen

AI is also changing how we think about average. If an AI can produce consistent "C" work, then we need to update our policies around grading: why would an employer hire a “C” student if AI can do that level of work? Together, participants will design new rubrics for an AI era that articulate how human ‘quality’ goes beyond AI. There will also be discussion around what policies and practices improve motivation and decrease cheating, and why.

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VoiceThread Basics 3: Moderating comments, private and threaded replies, and copying

Participants will learn how to give private feedback, use threaded commenting, copy VoiceThreads for use with multiple groups, and use comment moderation to formatively assess student work.

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AI Assignments and Assessments

Duration: 60 minutes

Presenter: Michelle Pacansky-Brock

With more students opting for online classes, faculty teaching in multiple modalities and course durations, and AI capsizing traditional assessment approaches, emotions are piqued. How do we best support teaching and learning through this era of disruption and uncertainty? This presentation will provide an overview of the evolution of humanizing, an instructional model scaling in California that emphasizes the influence of emotions in one's ability to thrive. We will examine what we've learned from this professional development effort and discuss how we can apply these lessons to our daily routines and relationships with colleagues.

Presented by CVC@ONE