AI

Tim Fawns and Anne-Marie Scott facilitate the MYFest session held on 24 July 2024. In this session, we explore the current AI moment with participants from an entangled pedagogy perspective. We begin by sharing how this moment might be challenging some of the things we believe about education, and where problematic assumptions or unconvincing solutions are occurring. Using examples of institutional responses to AI, crowdsourced from participants, we then trace where possibilities for agency might lie in this moment of complexity. We don’t promise to solve any problems, and that’s part of the point. Many educational problems cannot be solved, and we might, instead, hold those problems open in order to better understand them and find ways to negotiate them, in collaboration with others.

Stella Lee facilitates the MYFest session held on 22 July 2024. AI literacy is more than learning how to code. It’s about critically examining and using AI ethically and effectively. In our session, we break down what it means to be AI literate and explore an AI Literacy Framework designed for educators. We cover seven key areas, discuss the essential skills for each, and share practical resources. Join in for an animated discussion and prepare to dig in for some fun activities.

Lance Eaton facilitates the MYFest session held on 15 July 2024. This session is a case study of how College Unbound worked with students to develop their institutional policy on the use of generative AI for students and faculty. From there, the session explored through conversation, activities, and sharing how we can think and learn with students about how to critically use generative AI in general and in our respective disciplines.

Sarah Elaine Eaton facilitates the MYFest session held on 9 July 2024. In this session, Professor Eaton looks at the ethical implications of advancements in ...

Carolyn Ives, Paul Martin, and Shaun Longstreet facilitate the MYFest session held on 10 July 2024. Inspired by frameworks from Nan Wehipeihana (2019) and th...

Mark Merino facilitates the MYFest session held on 3 July 2024. How can we respond to the terror of AI? Laughter. Play. Let’s explore the possibilities and p...

Jon Ippolito facilitates the MYFest session held on 26 June 2024. Sometimes caricatured as mere regurgitators of online content, tools like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion are more like a growing child that is facile at fabricating fresh ideas and novel imagery. A peek under the hood of these models will equip participants to grasp their special brand of creativity, along with their limits in representing diverse perspectives and potential for disinformation.

Jon Ippolito facilitates the MYFest session held on 27 June 2024 with the full title: Thinking Machines? Or Lying, Cheating, and Stealing Machines? This interactive workshop encourages participants to critically examine how and why generative AI tools were designed and what that means for their use in education. Topics of exploration include: Bias, Hallucinations, Exploitation of Human Labor, Data & Privacy, Digital Divide, Academic Integrity, and Intellectual Property Rights. As participants explore each of these topics, they will consider how to bring these critical issues into their practice and how to help prepare students to become critical AI users.

Jon Ippolito facilitates the MYFest session held on 27 June 2024. Maturity, whether in childhood development or in AI use, means knowing when to trust instinctual responses and when to check their unimpeded influence. Drawing on a range of sources from the mathematics of probability to Roman history, this workshop proposes a framework for sifting appropriate uses of AI from those that can cause undue harm, be they in healthcare, business, or education. (Spoiler: it’s not high- versus low-risk tasks!)

Anna Mills facilitates the MYFest session held on 26 June 2024 with the full title: AI for Writing Feedback: Supporting a Human-Centered Writing Process and Building AI Literacy. In this interactive session, we’ll test out various forms of targeted AI writing feedback. How can AI feedback be incorporated to support students’ development of their own voice and ideas and also to give students practice questioning plausible AI advice? Can we put AI in a limited place where it supplements the responses of human readers and stimulates student thinking without telling them what to write? We’ll explore student comments on how it felt to use AI feedback from recent pilots of the teacher-created app MyEssayFeedback.ai.

Jon Ippolito facilitates the MYFest session held on 25 June 2024. In this three-part session series, we use the metaphoric structure: AI as a Growing Child. So in this first session we describe AI’s impact on democracy as the “adolescent phase,” where it can be rebellious and unpredictable. Just as it would be irresponsible to let a young child adolescent play with a firearm, AI and elections are a volatile mix. From deep-faked images of politicians to more subtle threats that can disable government infrastructure, this session demonstrates how AI tools can help saboteurs destabilize democracy. Participants learn the weaknesses of commonly proposed solutions like AI watermarks as well as other solutions with a greater chance of safeguarding the democratic process.

Teaching, writing, and AI ideas