Artificial Intelligence Events
Upcoming:
Let’s Talk AI: Building Awareness and Understanding Together
If you are interested in attending, please register here.
Tufts AI Literacy Forums Fall 2024
- Has Perplexity become a secret friend you love to pester? Does ChatGPT feel like an evil robot overlord you’re not sure you can trust?
- Are you curious about how others at Tufts are using AI? Do you ever wonder if you’re the only one with mixed feelings about it?
Over the past two years, generative AI tools have found their way into the spaces where we learn, teach, and work. This series creates an opportunity to discuss the ethical and effective uses of AI and how we can define AI literacy in a way that supports our shared values.
Join a forum where students, faculty, and staff come together to discuss how generative AI is shaping life at Tufts—both inside and outside the classroom.
- Online Forum: Thursday, November 21st, 2024, 12-1:30 PM via Zoom
- In-Person Forum: Friday, November 22nd, 12-2 PM, with a lunch buffet on the Medford Campus
Past Events
2024
The State of AI in 2024 Open Meeting hosted by the Teaching with AI Learning Community
September 6th, 2024
The first meeting of the Tufts Teaching with AI Learning Community is open to all instructors at Tufts. At this meeting we will discuss the state of AI in 2024 and its implications for our course design and our students learning.
Researching AI in the Classroom: A lunchtime conversation with IRLI & CELT
In this session facilitated by CELT & IRLI, let’s take a scholarly approach to experimenting with AI in our teaching and our students’ learning. Come share what you are doing, what you’re excited about, what you’re curious about, and/or what challenges you are experiencing. During the session we will collaboratively explore potential avenues of inquiry and dissemination across the disciplines at Tufts, identify potential research opportunities, structures and sources of support to help you move your ideas forward.
Play Space with AI
Join Dr. Ethan Danahy and ETS/CELT staff in a play space for hands-on exploration of AI – the best way to learn! This session will begin with a fellow faculty member demonstrating some of the ways that he has experimented with AI in his teaching. Then, each participant will be encouraged to create something themselves using generative artificial intelligence. For example, you could experiment with example prompts and adapt them to your own course, re-imagine an assignment or activity using AI, use AI to create a case study or student discussion, and more!
Play Space with AI
February 23rd, 2024
Join Dr. Ethan Danahy and ETS/CELT staff in a play space for hands-on exploration of AI – the best way to learn! This session will begin with a fellow faculty member demonstrating some of the ways that he has experimented with AI in his teaching. Then, each participant will be encouraged to create something themselves using generative artificial intelligence. For example, you could experiment with example prompts and adapt them to your own course, re-imagine an assignment or activity using AI, use AI to create a case study or student discussion, and more!
2023
December Teaching Symposium: Artificial Intelligence and What it Means for a Tufts Education
December 12th 2023
Handout & Slides
- Slides December 2023 Teaching Symposium
- Keynote Slides Sparking Curiosity: Transforming Teaching & Learning with AI by Dr Cynthia Alby
- Learning Lab - Playspace with AI with Dr Ethan Danahy
- Padlet with participant sharing from the day
Recordings:
AI Roundtable Series: Student Perspectives on AI
November 14th 2023
You can view the full recording online here and a video of excerpts here -
AI Roundtable Series: Teaching Graduate and Professional Students
November 3rd, 2023
AI Roundtable Series: Humanities & Writing Focused Courses
Teaching in the humanities and other writing focused courses, while not uniform, has many shared struggles in teaching our ever changing population of students. In this roundtable let’s talk about how we currently teach and assess learning in the humanities and how our current teaching might be impacted by AI tools. Through dialog, let’s uncover strategies to improve and to support our students learning.
AI Roundtable Series: STEM Courses
Friday October 6th 2023
Teaching in STEM fields varies across our disciplines and types of courses – from large introductory classes to small advanced laboratory sections. However, many of us are struggling to adapt our courses to the every changing population of incoming students and to needs of our fields. In this roundtable let’s talk about how we currently teach and assess learning in STEM fields, how our current teaching might be impacted by AI tools, and discuss possible new or adapted teaching and learning strategies to support and improve learning.
You can view the meeting notes online here.
Large Lecture Consortium - How is AI impacting those of us teaching large lectures?
You can view the meeting notes online here.
AI Series Roundtable: AI & Ethics - Biases & Inequities
September 12, 2023
AI Series Kickoff: DON’T PANIC - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI this fall
August 29th, 2023
You can view the Zoom recording (& chat) online here or access a PDF of the slides here
Assessment, Grading & Equity Faculty Learning Community Open Meeting
Authentic Assessments in the Age of AI
May 2nd, 2023
Questions about the purpose and format of higher education have arisen as new advances in artificial intelligence have created tools that can mimic student performance on many traditional assessments, i.e. they have the ability to respond to prompts and questions, compare and contrast ideas, generate creative works, revise written or coded content, and solve certain types of problems. One reaction to this and other trends in higher education is to promote authentic assessments, those in which students demonstrate their learning in ways that are meaningful and purposeful. Battling the tide of innovation in technology is an exhaustive fight we will not win. Come and join fellow instructors in a discussion of the big questions facing our courses as AI continues to evolve and grow: How can instructors leverage AI in their assessments? What does AI mean for the role of assessments in students learning & in grading? Should students be using AI to learn?