The Center for Learning and Teaching offers seminars, workshops and expert speakers throughout the year. These events and programs are intended to help anyone who teaches at Binghamton University be as effective as possible so that students achieve learning that lasts. Seminars may feature a presentation with discussion, a panel of BU faculty sharing teaching insights, or other discussion-oriented formats. Workshops include hands-on learning opportunities, such as technical training. Expert speakers help bring the latest pedagogical developments to Binghamton from the larger community of higher education.
12:00pm - 1:30pm
LN1324C - CLT Learning Studio
AI did not suddenly appear with the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-3.5 in November 2022. The term “artificial intelligence” emerged in 1956 when a group of researchers met at Dartmouth College for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. Since that fateful summer gathering 70 years ago, the set of technologies we call “AI” have increasingly become an ever-present part of our personal and professional lives, including in our teaching. Just as it’s important to historicize and nuance our understanding of AI, so too is it important to reflect on the diverse approaches for teaching about, against, and with AI technologies.
Join the CLT noon - 1:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6 at the Learning Studio LN1324C for this panel where we’ll hear from a group of interdisciplinary faculty about how they are working with students to better understand AI technologies. At a time of ongoing AI hype, the panel will offer attendees a more expansive pedagogical landscape that goes beyond incorporating generative AI products to instead consider ways for engaging AI technologies’ interconnected ideological, political-economic, technical, and social dimensions.
Facilitator: Charles Logan, CLT Fellow
Dr. Charles Logan, a CLT Fellow, works with faculty who want to explore AI and educational technology in ways that are ethical, critical, and deeply human. His work is grounded in the belief that teaching is not only about content or tools, but about co-creating learning spaces where students can bring their whole selves into the work.
Drawing from the learning sciences, critical educational technology scholarship, and literacies education, Charles helps faculty design learning environments that view students’ lived experiences and cultures as vital assets to welcome into the classroom. His approach emphasizes warm, responsive relationships, shared inquiry, and learning communities where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
Charles studies how people and communities resist, refuse, reimagine, and repurpose technologies. His interests include co-designing learning experiences that teach about, against, and with AI technologies; digital literacies development; and the possibilities of strategic playfulness. He is especially interested in helping faculty and students examine the societal impacts, ethical implications, and governance of AI systems, rather than treating AI adoption as the only goal.
Lunch will be provided.
Register Here: https://cglink.me/2eQ/r2307869