Interested in learning more about AI and Generative AI? Check out the Digital Gardener AI/Gen AI webinar and workshop series, where participants can choose among a range of professional development events. Each webinar and workshop is designed to help further your AI journey. Sign up today!
This program features a set of webinars and online workshops designed to improve AI and Generative AI literacies across Indiana University. It is a virtual, professional development series consisting of nine total events (4 webinars, 4 workshops, and 1 speed encounter) intended to
familiarize participants with basic practices and considerations of Ai/Gen Ai,
develop creative confidence using various Ai/Gen Ai for personal, professional, and pedagogical purposes, and
explore critical issues through conversations with colleagues / collaborators.
The program is open to all instructional faculty and staff from any IU campus, school, or regional center. Participants who complete 6 or more engagements (including at least 2 workshops) will earn a DGI AI/GenAI digital badge and receive an accompanying professional development letter of completion.
Each session (minus the speed encounter) will occur at 2pm ET on designated Mondays in September, October, and November this semester. Programming will alternate between webinar and workshop events, with workshops offering hands-on extensions of the previous webinar conversations and considerations.
Sign up Below! Participants must register for each session individually: select a session and in the drop down content click Register.
The State of Ai/GenAi & Higher Education: Where are we now & Where are we going?
In this webinar, AI/Gen AI academic expert Dr. Sid Dobrin, Professor and English Department Chair at the University of Florida, will offer a critical take on the “state of affairs” of AI / Gen AI and higher education. Professor Dobrin will provide an overview of the rise and impact of AI / Gen AI in higher education, offer key insights on the contemporary AI moment, and provide some gestures and considerations for where we might be headed.
Sid Dobrin, chair of the University of Florida’s English Department, has become one of the most sought-after academic experts on AI and Generative AI, with over 40 talks worldwide in the past year. He has introduced key considerations and tensions in the AI + Academia conversation to all manner of audiences, from college campuses to the US Congressional Committee on Education and the Workforce, and more recently became an MIT-certified AI Strategist. He is also the founding director of the Trace Innovation Initiative at UF, a member of the Florida Institute for National Security (FINS), and Florida AI Learning Consortium (FALCON) steering committee, and the owner of Flying-Fish AI, an AI consulting service for the recreational fishing industry.
Dobrin has also been instrumental in ensuring the University of Florida operates at the forefront of the AI / Generative AI moment, where the questions they focus on are less “Where are we at now?” and more "What’s next for AI? And how will that impact higher education and learning?” While his expertise in AI has led to him appearing in numerous podcasts, vodcasts, webinars, and similar digital engagements focused on Generative AI, Dobrin is also a widely respected scholar in writing studies, where his research intersects writing theory, new media, media ecology, writing instruction, environmental rhetoric, and ecocomposition, a concept he helped mainstream in the field. As an author, co-author, editor, and co-editor, Dobrin has published 23 books, with his latest work, AI and Writing, being released in August 2023. In that work, Dobrin introduces generative artificial intelligence and its emergent role for academic, professional, civic, and personal writing.
Dobrin is a passionate angler and widely recognized figure in the Sports Fishing world. He is the author of Fishing, Gone? Saving the Ocean through Sportfishing, co-founder of Inventive Fishing, LLC, and freelances for a number of fishing magazines, including Florida Sportsman, Salt Water Sportsman, Extreme Kayak Fishing Magazine, and others.
Generative AI Sampler: A Tech Tasting Event
Explore a range of sessions designed to lighten your workload and enhance your skills. Whether you’re interested in general overviews, classroom applications, or day-to-day uses, there’s something for everyone. Each session lasts approximately 15 minutes, allowing you to attend up to five sessions during the event.
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Session "Sampler" Options General Platform Overviews:
Adobe Firefly with Express
Ethical Considerations
Microsoft Copilot and Copilot Pro
Classroom Uses:
Class Activities
Curriculum Development
Introducing AI in Higher Ed
Day-to-Day Uses:
Improved Productivity
Collaboration and Brainstorming
Writing Effective Prompts
Feel free to drop in for one session or stay for several rounds. This event is a fantastic way to get a taste of the powerful tools that can transform your approach to work and education. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your AI knowledge and skills. We look forward to seeing you online!
Prompt Design: A Guide to Gen Ai creation in Text and Image
In this workshop you will learn strategies for successful prompt design (or prompt engineering) for both text-based Generative AI platforms like Microsoft Co-Pilot and image Generative AI platforms like Adobe Firefly.
What to Expect You will be guided through a set of critical and creative, hands-on engagements where you will produce prompts that result in more targeted content, learn to work iteratively as part of the generative AI process, and to utilize greater affordances of different platforms.
In this webinar you will be introduced to pedagogical guidelines and strategies for integrating AI / Generative AI into the classroom and hear from faculty who have used Generative AI successfully in their courses.
What to Expect Session hosts and guests presenters will highlight low-stakes and high-impact practices for bringing AI into your work with students and showcase several examples of different levels of integration.
Miranda Rodak is a Visiting Senior Lecturer in the Kelley School of Business at IU Bloomington and the Director of IU’s system-wide faculty development program, the Mosaic Institute for Active Learning. Previously, she served as the Director of Undergraduate Teaching in the College of Arts & Sciences, where she directed multi-section writing courses annually serving 6,000 undergraduates and supporting 100+ SAAs with scaffolded professional development and teacher training. Her scholarship focuses on innovative pedagogies that promote AI and digital literacies, metacognitive learning, and inclusive, collaborative, high-impact practices.
Terri Hebert is an Associate Professor of Science Education and Director of the Guided Pathways Academy at IU South Bend, where she teaches undergraduate courses for the early elementary education program. Professor Hebert also coordinates community-based service-learning opportunities for students and works closely with those pursuing futures in K-12 science education. As a researcher, she focuses on the intersectionality of place- and problem-based learning within K-12 and postsecondary science education. She has secured several million dollars in grant fundingover the years, serving asPrinciple Investgatoron major grants from Indiana’s Department of Education and, more recently, playing arole with a multi-million dollarfunding from the US Department of Education Teacher Quality Partnership Grant.
Pedagogy & Scaffolding: Integrating Ai/Gen Ai in the Classroom
This workshop will guide you through a range of approaches for integrating AI / Generative AI into the classroom. It will build on the insights from the previous webinar, including a return appearance by featured guest Miranda Rodak, and focus on helping you scaffold this integration as part of a unit or multi-unit plan.
What to Expect This session will present a set of examples and considerations for how you might use AI/Generative AI platforms in your courses. It will feature not only options for getting students to use these tools critically and ethically, but also offer guidance on how you can create activities and assignments for students, leveraging AI/Generative AI as part of active learning engagements, as part of an assignment or skill development sequence, and as potential collaborators for students when working on projects.
Miranda Rodak is a Visiting Senior Lecturer in the Kelley School of Business at IU Bloomington and the Director of IU’s system-wide faculty development program, the Mosaic Institute for Active Learning. Previously, she served as the Director of Undergraduate Teaching in the College of Arts & Sciences, where she directed multi-section writing courses annually serving 6,000 undergraduates and supporting 100+ SAAs with scaffolded professional development and teacher training. Her scholarship focuses on innovative pedagogies that promote AI and digital literacies, metacognitive learning, and inclusive, collaborative, high-impact practices.
AI/Gen AI Projects & Strategies for Assessment
This webinar session focuses on conversations and practices related to AI/Generative AI and academic integrity, and will examine critical issues and key considerations for responsible use and assessment with AI/Generative AI.
What to expect You will hear from colleagues about different approaches for promoting responsible student use of AI/Generative AI and learn operative strategies for assessing student work that may be AI/Generative AI inflected.
In addition to regular hosts, this session will feature co-facilitators in Instructional Technology Consultant Eric Brinkman (they/them) and Distance Learning Specialist Maggie Gilchrist (she/hers) from IU Bloomington's Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning.
In addition to playing a key role in the conversation, Brinkman and Gilchrist will highlight the core Canvas assets they’ve built around AI / Generative AI Assessment.
Developing Assignments and Assessment Strategies for Ai/GenAi
This workshop will guide you through a two-part process involving the use of AI/Generative AI to create assignments and activities (or revise existing ones) and creating assessment practices to evaluate student projects that have utilized AI/Generative AI
What to Expect The first half of the session will focus on using Generative AI to help in the creation (or revision) of assignments or projects, especially for projects that might invite students to use of AI/Generative AI. The second half will help you develop assessment guidelines (and approaches) for evaluating student learning and mastery in assignments where they used AI/Generative AI.
This session will feature co-facilitators in Instructional Technology Consultant Erik Brinkman (they/them) and Distance Learning Specialist Maggie Gilchrist (she/hers) from IU Bloomington's Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning..
In addition to playing a key role in the conversation, Brinkman and Gilchrist will highlight the core Canvas assets they’ve built around AI / Generative AI Assessment.
What have we learned & what might we do differently?
This session will feature a panel discussion among educators on the use of AI/Generative AI. The conversation will unfold across two trajectories. The first will be rooted in what have we learned so far—faculty perspectives working from “the advent of ChatGPT” to more recent developments in Generative AI. The second will focus on what we might do differently going forward with these tools and conversations as pertaining to education, ethics, and engagement.
What to Expect A panel of educators engaged in reflection and projections related to the current and coming landscape of AI/Generative AI.
The final session for this series will offer a range of use cases for academic uses of AI / Generative AI and situate strategies for using these platforms in your everyday scholarly practice.
What to Expect This session will feature experts demonstrating how they use Gen AI tools in their academic work and offering pragmatic approaches/insights across disciplinary frames. It will feature a refined exploration of Prompt Design (the 9/23 workshop) and present additional strategies for critical and creative academic collaborations between human authors and Generative AI partners.
The core of this session is designed to help you identify and create customized strategies and uses for Gen AI specific to your area(s) of expertise.
Anne Ottenbreit-Leftwich, Ph.D., is the Barbara B. Jacobs Chair in Education and Technology. She is a professor of Instructional Systems Technology within the School of Education and an adjunct professor of Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington. Dr. Leftwich’s expertise lies in the areas of the design of technology/computer science K-12 curriculum resources, and development/implementation of professional development for teachers and teacher educators. Dr. Leftwich investigates ways to teach computer science and ways to prepare preservice and inservice teachers to teach CS. She is a co-PI for the Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Alliance, which seeks to broaden participation in computing at the K-16 levels. Her research focuses on the adoption and implementation of technology and computer science at the K-12 levels.
Kevin Jones, Ed.D. is an associate professor of management at Indiana University Columbus and the Director of the Indiana University Columbus, Center for Teaching and Learning. He is also an Indiana University Digital Gardener Fellow exploring ways to boost digital literacy among faculty and students. His professional work is dedicated to enhancing the results of organizations by applying organizational change practices to improve how individuals and teams perform, use technology optimally, and communicate effectively. His research interests cover various topics from leadership skills to ethical AI use.
