A Fireside Chat About AI: Embracing AI as Essential Learning

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C. Edward Watson, vice president for digital innovation with the American Association of Colleges and Universities and author of Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), will present a hybrid fireside chat titled "Embracing AI as Essential Learning."

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools have had an astonishingly quick impact on the ways we learn, work, think, and create. While higher education's initial response was to develop strategies to diminish AI's influence in the classroom, it is now clear that AI competencies and literacies must be embraced as essential learning for most colleges and universities. These responses and realities create a challenging tension that higher education must work to resolve. Drawing from his new book, Teaching with AI, Watson will detail some high-level challenges and opportunities that have emerged for higher education, especially in terms of pedagogical practice and student learning.

Following this brief introduction, the remainder of this event will be open discussion regarding all aspects of AI with a particular focus on the pedagogical possibilities resulting from the emergence of generative AI.

This event is hosted by Faculty Forward Academy in the WSE Center for Teaching and Learning Design.