2024 AI Institute – Schedule
CREATIVE AND CRITICAL THINKING IN THE AGE OF AI
Institute Schedule
| 7:30 – 8:00 AM | Registration Desk Lobby, 1st Floor | |||||||||||
| 8:00 – 8:30 AM | Welcome and Institute Overview Auditorium, 2nd Floor | |||||||||||
| 8:30 – 8:45 AM | Opening Remarks Provost, Dr. Jennifer Troyer Auditorium, 2nd Floor | |||||||||||
| 8:45 – 9:00 AM | Student Plenary Presentation: Conversations with AI Instead of “Prompt Engineering”: AI Tools in Research Alex Litovchenko – Undergraduate Student, Psychological Science Auditorium, 2nd Floor | |||||||||||
| 9:00 – 9:30 AM | Student Panel: Student Perspectives on AI at UNC Charlotte Moderator: Dr. Jordan Register – Faculty Development Specialist, CTL Participants: Ludmila Keener, Roberta Watkins, Sasha Sembur, Sri Soumitri Kanduri, and Alex Litovchenko Auditorium, 2nd Floor | |||||||||||
| 9:30 – 9:40 AM | Morning Wrap-Up and Institute Resources CTL Teaching and Learning Innovation Team Auditorium, 2nd Floor | |||||||||||
| 9:40 – 9:50 AM | Break | |||||||||||
| 9:50 – 11:15 AM | Featured Workshop & Technology Test Kitchen 11th Floor | |||||||||||
| 9:50 – 10:30 AM | ROOM 1101 | ROOM 1102 | ROOM 1104 | |||||||||
| Featured Workshop: The Urgency of Play: Staying Curious with ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Copilot, Claude and Perplexity Reed Dickson – Director, Online Faculty Experience & Innovation, Pima Community College | Technology Test Kitchen 1: Image Creators, Video Creators and Teaching Aids ● Adobe Premier Pro – Creating Videos with Adobe Premier Pro Sidney Beeman – Adjunct Professor, CHESS ● MidJourney – Writing Images with MidJourney Justin Cary – Senior Lecturer, CHESS ● Perplexity – A Research and Writing Assistant Dr. Cat Mahaffey – Teaching Professor, CHESS ● PowerNotes – Synthesizing Sources with PowerNotes Jessi Rae Morton – Lecturer, CHESS | Technology Test Kitchen 2: AI-Powered Educational Tools and CoPilots for Code Assistance ● Gradescope – AI-Enhanced Grading and Feedback with Gradescope AI Dr. Jacob Horger – Teaching Associate Professor, COS ● Inscribe – AI-Powered Student Support Community via InScribe Dr. Sam Suptela – Assistant Teaching Professor, COS Tonya Bates – Senior Lecturer, COS Heidi Echols – Adaptive Learning Specialist/Instructional Designer and Technologist II, CTL ● GitHub CoPilot and Code Assistance Tools Dr. Mohamed Shehab – Professor of Software and Information Systems, CCI | ||||||||||
| 10:30 – 10:35 AM | Change Rooms | |||||||||||
| 10:35 – 11:15 AM | ROOM 1101 | ROOM 1102 | ROOM 1104 | |||||||||
| Featured Workshop: The Urgency of Play: Staying Curious with ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Copilot, Claude and Perplexity Reed Dickson – Director, Online Faculty Experience & Innovation, Pima Community College | Technology Test Kitchen 1: Image Creators, Video Creators and Teaching Aids ● Adobe Premier Pro – Creating Videos with Adobe Premier Pro Sidney Beeman – Adjunct Professor, CHESS ● MidJourney – Writing Images with MidJourney Justin Cary – Senior Lecturer, CHESS ● Perplexity – A Research and Writing Assistant Dr. Cat Mahaffey – Teaching Professor, CHESS ● PowerNotes – Synthesizing Sources with PowerNotes Jessi Rae Morton – Lecturer, CHESS | Technology Test Kitchen 2: AI-Powered Educational Tools and CoPilots for Code Assistance ● Gradescope – AI-Enhanced Grading and Feedback with Gradescope AI Dr. Jacob Horger – Teaching Associate Professor, COS ● Inscribe – AI-Powered Student Support Community via InScribe Dr. Sam Suptela – Assistant Teaching Professor, COS Tonya Bates – Senior Lecturer, COS Heidi Echols – Adaptive Learning Specialist/Instructional Designer and Technologist II, CTL ● GitHub CoPilot and Code Assistance Tools Dr. Mohamed Shehab – Professor of Software and Information Systems, CCI | ||||||||||
| 11:15 – 12:00 PM | Lunch Break Atrium, 2nd Floor | |||||||||||
| 12:00 – 12:50 PM | Keynote Creative and Critical Thinking in the Age of AI Reed Dickson – Director, Online Faculty Experience and Innovation, Pima Community College Auditorium, 2nd Floor | |||||||||||
| 12:50 – 1:00 PM | Break | |||||||||||
| 1:00 – 2:00 PM | Lightning Talks 5th Floor | |||||||||||
| ROOM 501 | ROOM 502 | ROOM 504 | ROOM 506 | |||||||||
| Session 1 1:00 – 1:15 PM | AI PHILOSOPHY The Delusion of AI Ethics in Higher Education: The Challenge of Translating Ethical Principles into Best Practices Lahcen Qasserras -Ph.D. Candidate, COED | AI STRATEGY Advanced Prompt Engineering Techniques can Assist Instructional Design for Language Teachers Dr. Alex Dornburg – Assistant Professor, COS Dr. Kristin Davin – Professor and Program Director, COED | AI IMPACT Navigating Attitudes toward Generative AI Instructure: Insights from Student and Employee Perspectives Dr. Suzanne Collins – Faculty, COB Dr. Jared M. Hansen – Associate Marketing Professor, COB | AI IMPACT Using AI Tools to Analyze Frequent Student Reflections in Real-Time Sandra Wiktor – Ph.D Student, CCI Dr. Mohsen Dorodchi – Teaching Professor, CCI | ||||||||
| Session 2 1:20 – 1:35 PM | AI PHILOSOPHY Occulture and AI: What Magic can Teach us About AI Ethics Heather D. Freeman, Professor, COA+A Dr. Damien Williams – Assistant Professor, School of Data Science | AI STRATEGY Gen AI for Marketing in Real Life Lilly Raymond – Faculty, COB | AI IMPACT From Questions to Community: The Power of InScribe for Student Support Tonya C. Bates – Senior Lecturer, COS Dr. Sam Suptela – Assistant Teaching Professor, COS | AI STRATEGY Behind the Screens: Forging Narratives with AI in Documentary Filmmaking Sidney Beeman – Adjunct Professor, CHESS | ||||||||
| Session 3 1:40 – 1:55 PM | AI IMPACT AI PHILOSOPHY PowerNotes Pilot: Responsible AI Usage and the Future of Writing Pedagogy Jessi Rae Morton – Lecturer, CHESS Justin Cary – Senior Lecturer, CHESS Dr. Cat Mahaffey – Teaching Professor, CHESS | AI STRATEGY Exploring AI in Course Evaluations Alex Chapin – Executive Director of Academic Technologies, Office of Academic Technologies | AI IMPACT Am I Alone on the Digital Wave? Exploring Generative AI Perspectives Among Instructors and Students in Higher Education Dr. Ji Yae Bong – Assistant Professor, COED Daniel Maxwell – Lecturer and University Supervisor, COED Dr. Beth Oyarzun – Clinical Associate Professor, COED Dr. Stella Kim – Assistant Professor, COED | AI STRATEGY Home Run Season: Setting the Strike Zone for GenAI Kaela Lindquist – Associate Dean and Director of SACR, Division of Student Affairs Collin Ashley – Assistant Director of SACR, Division of Student of Affairs | ||||||||
| 1:55 – 2:15 PM | Snack Break 11th Floor | |||||||||||
| 2:15 – 2:45 PM | Lesson Demonstration | |||||||||||
| ROOM 1101 | ROOM 1102 | ROOM 1104 | ||||||||||
| The Future of Planning? Unleashing the Power (and Pitfalls) of GenAI for Standards-Based Instructional Design Daniel Maxwell – Lecturer and University Supervisor, COED Dr. Premkumar Pugalenthi – Clinical Assistant Professor, COED | Interactive C++ Coding with Generative AI Dr. Arun Ravindran – Associate Professor, COE | Learning with Generative AI: Stories from the Classroom and Clinic Dr. Meredith Troutman-Jordan – Systems Coordinator, Professor, CHESS | ||||||||||
| 2:45 – 2:50 PM | Break | |||||||||||
| 2:50 – 3:45 PM 11th Floor | Bold Discussions | |||||||||||
| ROOM 1101 | ROOM 1102 | ROOM 1104 | ROOM 1105 | |||||||||
| Staying 3 Steps Ahead: The AI Ready Educator Reed Dickson – Director, Online Faculty Experience & Innovation, Pima Community College | Supporting Student Needs with AI Dr. Rebecca Burry – Instructional Designer, CTL | Campus Functions of AI Beyond the Classroom Heidi Echols – Adaptive Learning Specialist/Instructional Designer and Technologist II, CTL | The Role of AI in Teaching Innovation Dr. Jordan Register, Faculty Development Specialist, CTL | |||||||||
| 3:45 – 3:55 PM | Break | |||||||||||
| 3:55 – 4:10 PM | Closing Remarks Dr. Mike Carlin, Vice Chancellor for OneIT and Chief Information Officer (CIO) Auditorium, 2nd Floor | |||||||||||
| 4:10 – 4:20 PM | Ways Forward Dr. Kiran Budhrani, Director for Teaching and Learning Innovation, CTL Auditorium, 2nd Floor | |||||||||||
| 4:20 – 4:30 PM | Impressions Booth Stop by the video impressions booth on your way home! Atrium, 2nd Floor | |||||||||||