Designing AI-Conscious Assignments: Navigating AI Integration and Exclusion
Penn State faculty are invited to participate in a three-day intensive workshop to consider the impacts of generalized AI on assignment design. You will explore how you can incorporate AI use into an assignment or design an assignment to constrain AI use.
Participants will:
- Design or redesign an assignment they have selected and will use in a course in the 2025-26?academic year.
- Explore AI-related teaching issues as a community of faculty colleagues and consider the implications for their assignments.
- Approach general AI tool use and selection with increased confidence after exploring three Penn State-approved generalized AI tools.
- Connect with existing Penn State educator communities focusing on impacts and roles of generalized AI tools in teaching and learning.
This in-person program is for Penn State faculty of any rank or title, at any Penn State location. It will be facilitated by the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence and by Teaching and Learning with Technology. The cohort will meet at University Park on May 20, 21, and 22.
Travel funding will be available for those from campuses other than University Park.
Space is limited. Apply by April 18. In your application, you will be asked to describe your experience with AI and to briefly outline what you would like to accomplish during the intensive experience.
Questions? Contact Larkin Hood at lnh2@psu.edu.
The Improv and Pedagogy Teaching Community is Back!
The Improv and Pedagogy Teaching Community offers two workshops this spring semester. These stand-alone, interactive workshops are scheduled for Friday, Mar. 7 and April 25 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. ET, in downtown State College at the Blue Brick Theater (209 W Calder Way). Each workshop features lunch, small and large group discussions on connections between improv and our teaching, and improv games and exercises facilitated by company members of Happy Valley Improv and PSU instructors.
Space is limited. Sign-up at https://forms.gle/HHi8d5gwGZRXyAja7.
Questions? Email Andrea McCloskey at mailto:avm11@psu.edu
