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Digital Gardener Summit

Digital Gardener Summit

The Digital Gardener Summit is an annual gathering of educators, administrators, and innovators interested in digital literacy, digital creativity, and digital learning. This year the DG Summit is opening to participants outside of IU and operating across two locations: one-day event hosted on the IU Bloomington campus and a one-day event at IU Indianapolis.

Both events will feature identical programming: a keynote panel discussion on digital literacy, generative AI, and the current and coming states of education; success stories on digital integration in teaching and learning; critical conversations on generative AI related to pedagogy and practice; and two hands-on workshops: prompt engineering for LLMs (like CoPilot, ChatGPT, Claude.ai, etc.) and generating images with Adobe Firefly.

This is a promotional image for the Keynote Panel at the 2024 Digital Gardener Summit.

This is a promotional image for a Digital Gardener Summit workshop on prompt engineering and pedagogy, led by Lance Cummings, Associate Professor of Professional Writing at UNC Wilmington

This is a promotional image for the Adobe Firefly workshop at the 2024 Digital Gardener Summit.

Event Information

For more information on the DG Summit, use the expandable sections below.

IU Bloomington on May 9

10:00-10:30am ET - Check-in
10:30-10:40am ET - Welcome, Overview, and Keynote Panel Intro
10:40-11:30am ET - Keynote Panel - GenAI: Pedagogy, Practice, and Possibilities - Moderated by Justin Hodgson
11:30-12:00pm ET - Creating/Critical Conversations on GenAI
12:00-1:15pm ET- Lunch (on your own)
1:15-1:45pm ET - Faculty/Student Success Stories
1:45-2:15pm ET - Generating Images with Adobe Firefly with Eric Rowse
2:15-2:25pm ET - Break
2:25-3:20pm ET - Prompt Engineering and Pedagogy with Lance Cummings
3:20-3:30pm ET - Wrap Up and Takeaways

IU Indianapolis on May 10

10:00-10:30am ET - Check-in
10:30-10:40am ET - Welcome, Overview, and Keynote Panel Intro
10:40-11:30am ET - Keynote Panel - GenAI: Pedagogy, Practice, and Possibilities - Moderated by Justin Hodgson
11:30-12:00pm ET - Creating/Critical Conversations on GenAI
12:00-1:00pm ET- Lunch (on site)
1:00-1:40pm ET - Faculty/Student Success Stories
1:40-2:15pm ET - Generating Images with Adobe Firefly with Eric Rowse
2:15-2:25pm ET - Break
2:25-3:20pm ET - Prompt Engineering and Pedagogy with Lance Cummings
3:20-3:30pm ET - Wrap Up and Takeaways

The 2024 Digital Gardener Summit is open to all interested attendees: primary, secondary, and higher education alike. There is limited seating for each event, so participation will be determined by registrations, with priority given to early registrants. Once the enrollment capacity for each event is reached, additional registrants will be put on a waitlist.

There is a $30 registration fee (payable by credit card) for non-IU participants.

For the IU Indianapolis event: lunches will be provided and participants make lunch selections during the registration.

For the IU Bloomington event: lunch will be the responsibility of each participant, but there are several choices within a short walk (less than 5 min) from the event location.

IU Bloomington

Date: May 9, 2024
Location: Francis Morgan Swain Student Building – Room 015
- IU Bloomington Campus Map: https://map.iu.edu/iub/
Check-in: 10:00-10:30am ET
Parking: Poplars Parking Garage is the closest garage for both visitors and those with an IU parking permit. For more info on parking, visit the IU Bloomington Office of Parking Operations: https://parking.indiana.edu/facilities/parking-garages.html

IU Indianapolis

Date: May 10, 2024
Location: Innovation Hall – Room 101
- IU Indianapolis Campus Map: https://map.iu.edu/iupui/index.html
Check-in: 10:00-10:30am ET
Parking: Gateway Parking Garage is the closest garage for visitors and Blackford Street Parking Garage is closes for those with an IU permit. For more info on parking, visit the IU Indianapolis Parking and Transportation Services: https://parking.iupui.edu/parking/parking-locations.html

Register Today

If you are interested in participating, exploring generative AI with a group of digital innovators, or just participating in critical and creative conversations, join us on May 9 in Bloomington or May 10 in Indianapolis.

For Non-IU attendees, there is a $30 registration fee.

Registration is now open! Space is limited.

Digital Gardener Summit