We in IT Services are excited to continue providing opportunities for knowledge building focused on application and use cases of AI in areas of particular importance in higher education.
It is hard to go a single day without hearing about changes and developments in the AI space. While ethical questions abound, there is little doubt that using AI is going to be critical for students of our institutions. How do we prepare our students for these new spaces? What do they need to understand about AI? How does the liberal arts prepare them to do the kind of critical thinking required to use a new technology and address its unintended consequences? As Danielle McClean suggests, we have to find ways to help students understand how the skills they develop in the liberal arts can augment the technical capacities opened by AI.
From March 6 through March 27 the focus of weekly webinars on AI will be on AI in the Curriculum. Each Thursday at 1 p.m. there will be a one hour webinar to help you and your colleagues think about how you are already using AI, how you might start using AI, and what is on the horizon for AI in facilitating improved learning for students across the curriculum.
The campus is already a member of this AI Ready network with CIC and so there is no fee for you or anyone in your department to participate in these webinars. Simply click on the link provided and register for the sessions you can attend. (The sessions are somewhat sequential so we encourage attendance at each.) Once you register, you’ll receive a Zoom webinar invitation via email with all the information you need to attend.
March Webinars on AI in the Curriculum
If you haven’t received an invitation and would like to attend any of these sessions, or if you have any questions, please contact Miranda Novak.