August 2024 FOTL Resources

Human-Centered Teaching in an Age of Innovation: Artificial Intelligence in Transformative Learning Environments

The August 14, 2024, Focus on Teaching and Learning (FOTL) Conference theme was Human-Centered Teaching in an Age of Innovation: Artificial Intelligence in Transformative Learning Environments. With the partnership of several faculty and staff from around the university, we compiled nine presentations around the theme of generative artificial intelligence and its impact on teaching. Please peruse resources and recordings from each session below.

Session Description: This session presented pedagogical perspectives and strategies from writing intensive instructors hailing from a number of different fields. The presenters focused on how to negotiate issues of academic integrity and other challenges presented by generative AI while engaging students in robust writing instruction and practice.

View the presentation slides here: Writing Intensive Instruction in the Age of Generative AI PowerPoint

Session Description: This workshop incorporated work from the current cohort of the Dean Brackley SJ Faculty Fellowship for Vocational Discernment and discussed bringing vocational discernment into the classroom across a variety of disciplines, with the hope of humanizing the classroom and enabling the rich process in which students can think deeply about their greatest hopes.

View the presentation slides here: Vocational Discernment

Session Description: This workshop session built upon the recent work done by faculty under the "Humanizing STEM Education: Navigating Future Challenges through Integrated Instruction" grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In the workshop, pairs of humanities and STEM faculty presented on the challenges and successes of their interdisciplinary course preparation.

View the presentation slides here: Challenges and Successes of Interdisciplinary Teaching PowerPoint

August 2024 FOTL Resources

Human-Centered Teaching in an Age of Innovation: Artificial Intelligence in Transformative Learning Environments

Keynote Speech Recording

Keynote Speech PDF

Writing Intensive Instruction in the Age of Generative AI

Incorporating Vocational Discernment into the Classroom in a Variety of Disciplines

Challenges and Successes of Interdisciplinary Teaching

Using AI as a Tool to Assist Students in an Experiential Learning Course

Using Student-Created Videos to Supplement Writing Assignments

Using AI to Support the Design of Assignments that Prompt Students’ Critical Engagement with Course Content

Integrating Artificial Intelligence into a Capstone Course

Critically Hopeful Practices Rooted in Ignatian Pedagogy

Photos from the Event

Human-Centered Teaching in an Age of Innovation: Artificial Intelligence in Transformative Learning Environments