2024 FITSI: Teaching and Learning
With Generative Artificial Intelligence
August 15 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00pm (on Zoom)
Presenters and panelists from USNH will explore Generative AI and its implications for teaching and learning. How can the technology be leveraged to enhance our teaching practice and student learning? Break out "birds of a feather" discussion groups will explore more targeted challenges and solutions in advance of planned Generative AI workshops in the Fall. All USNH faculty and staff are encouraged to RSVP and join the conversations.
Zoom link will be sent to all registrants the day before the event.
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| 9:00am-9:10am | Welcome |
| 9:10am-10:15am | Teaching and Thinking with A.I. (José Antonio Bowen) The excitement (and panic) surrounding A.I. is shattering expectations around assignments, assessment, class preparation and attendance, while challenging us to build more future-proof and inclusive classrooms. AI is rapidly changing how humans work and think. AI is also changing how we think about average. If AI can produce consistent "C" work, then we need to update our policies and grading. AI is even changing creativity. Together, we will examine the skills and curriculum that will matter most in this new age, why articulation of ‘quality’ is essential and what policies and practices improve motivation and decrease cheating |
| 10:15am-10:30am | Break |
| 10:30am-11:00am | AI Unplugged: Navigating Ethics, Bias, and Environmental Impact (Scott Kimball, Director, Learning Development and Innovation & Mike McIntire, Learning Architect, UNH Online and Continuing Education) While Generative AI can be a valuable tool, it comes with hidden costs. As with many new technologies, there are tangible impacts on the environment, intellectual property rights, and human jobs. And because AI is trained on the work of humans, it inherits the biases and untruths of humans. |
| 11:00am 11:40am | Introduction to The AI Challenge (Martha Burtis, Director, Open CoLab, Plymouth State University) Join us for an orientation to The AI Challenge, a self-paced, online module to build faculty capacity with generative artificial intelligence (GENAI). Developed by the Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative at Plymouth State, the module is organized around the lenses of teaching with, teaching against, and teaching about GENAI. Participants will be introduced to the main module topics and have a chance to sign up to participate this fall in a month-long, virtual cohort of faculty from across USNH, working through the module together. |
| 11:40am-12:00pm |
AI Chat: Exploring Classroom Application |
2024 FITSI Keynote Speaker: José Antonio Bowen, Teaching and Thinking with A.I.
About the Keynote Speaker: José Antonio Bowen has been leading innovation and change for over 40 years at Stanford, Georgetown and the University of Southampton (UK), as a dean at Miami University and SMU and as President of Goucher College. Bowen has worked as a musician with Stan Getz, Dave Brubeck, and many others and his symphony was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music (1985). Bowen holds four degrees from Stanford and has written over 100 scholarly articles and books, including the Cambridge Companion to Conducting (2003), Teaching Naked (2012 and the winner of the Ness Award for Best Book on Higher Education), Teaching Naked Techniques with G. Edward Watson (2017) and Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers using Relationships, Resilience and Reflection (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021). Bowen has appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and has three TED talks. Stanford honored him as a Distinguished Alumni Scholar (2010) and he has presented keynotes and workshops at more than 300 campuses and conferences 46 states and 17 countries around the world. In 2018, he was awarded the Ernest L. Boyer Award (for significant contributions to American higher education). He is a senior fellow for the American Association of Colleges and Universities.
2023
Empowering Faculty to Help Students be Their Best
2023 FITSI Guest Speaker: Dr. James Lang |
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 Dr. James Lang Tuesday, June 6, 10am - 11am (via Zoom)"Teaching Distracted Minds: Old Challenges, New Contexts"Presenter: Dr. James Lang Author of: Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It (2020) Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning (2016) |
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2023 FITSI Guest Speaker: Ray Schroeder |
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 Ray Schroeder Wednesday, June 7, 10am - 11am (via Zoom)"The Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Higher Education"Presenter: Ray Schroeder Professor Emeritus of Communication, University of Illinois, Springfield Senior Fellow University Professional Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) |
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2023 FITSI Guest Speaker: Dr. Carol Hurney |
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 Dr. Carol Hurney Wednesday, June 7, 2:30pm - 3:30pm (via Zoom)"Making Active Learning Work Using the Science of Learning"Presenter: Dr. Carol Hurney Associate Provost, Faculty Development Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Colby College |
Poster Session: 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Paul College Great Hall, Rooms G25, G35 & G59
| Title | Presenter(s) |
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| Microsoft OneDrive & Sharepoint | Karen Hoover & Fran Keefe |
| Wireless Projection | Craig Hopkins |
| Streaming Software and Technology, 360° Cameras | Scott Kimball |
| Virtual Reality | Mike McIntire |
| Complementary Literacies | Kathrine Aydelott |
