{"id":13209,"date":"2024-10-09T19:04:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T19:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/provost.tufts.edu\/celt\/?page_id=13209"},"modified":"2025-12-08T20:32:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:32:36","slug":"december-symposium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/provost.tufts.edu\/celt\/events\/december-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"December Teaching Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Doing, Reflecting, Connecting: A Symposium on Experiential Learning<\/h1><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025, 10 am - 2 pm, Medford campus & online<\/h3>\n

Join us for a day of experiential learning, an approach where we learn by doing, reflecting, and connecting. After a welcome by CELT's Director, Dr. Dana Grossman Leeman, participants will choose from several hands-on learning activities led by Tufts faculty and staff representing a variety of disciplines and teaching contexts. We'll reconvene to reflect on how we might apply what we have learned to our own teaching. After lunch, participants will explore how AI can help them design and enhance immersive learning opportunities.<\/p>\n

Registration for this event has closed.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

View the Full Program, including presenter materials HERE<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Program<\/h2>\n

9:30\u201310:00 AM | Check-in & Breakfast<\/p>\n

10:00\u201310:30 AM | Welcome & Introduction<\/p>\n

10:40\u201311:50 AM | Experiential Learning Workshops<\/p>\n

12:00\u201312:30 PM | Communal Reflection-on-Action<\/p>\n

12:30\u20131:00 PM | Lunch Break<\/p>\n

1:00\u20132:00 PM | Using AI Bots for Experiential Learning<\/p>\n

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Experiential Learning Workshops<\/h2>\n

Humans in the Loop: Exploring How We Build\u2014And Bias\u2014Information Systems<\/b><\/h3>\n

Tisch Library Digital Design Studio<\/strong><\/a>: Kaylen Dwyer<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0Anna Kijas<\/a>,\u00a0Kim Forero-Arnias<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Join us for a playful, collaborative approach to critically examining our digital and information worlds. Whether it\u2019s a library catalog, archival finding aid, search engines, or artificial intelligence\u2014the biases in the system are a result of humans\u2019 construction, organization and classification of information. You will practice close reading strategies through a hands-on, no-tech activity that can be adapted to your teaching context to surface, discuss, and describe how systems of power impact visibility, representation, and access to knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gamification and Computer Engineering<\/b><\/h3>\n

Mark Hempstead<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

In this session, you will experience the use of games to teach complex concepts and algorithms intuitively. The activity will be framed as a cooperative card game where the players arrange their board, set their rules, and then follow them through the deck to record the <\/span>score.<\/span> In the process, you might learn something about caches, a core component of modern computers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Remote<\/p>\n

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AI-Powered Experiential Learning: A Hands-On Exploration<\/b><\/h3>\n

Thomas Van de Velde<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

In this interactive session, participants will experience an AI-powered stakeholder interview simulation where they gather requirements from a realistic character and document what they learn. With minimal upfront instruction, you'll see how AI can scaffold the core elements of experiential learning (doing, reflecting, and connecting) while adapting to diverse skill levels and disciplines. Faculty will leave with practical ideas for bringing authentic, project-based learning into their own classrooms in scalable and inclusive ways.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hybrid<\/p>\n

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The Walking Classroom<\/b><\/h3>\n

Andrew West<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Student learning is enhanced by real world applications of course content, but in the classroom, these connections aren\u2019t always self-evident. In this demonstration, we will go outside to observe elements of campus that relate to my introductory science class (don\u2019t worry, I\u2019ll give you some ideas) and use those observations to spark curiosity and forge connections.\u00a0 Participants will leave with ideas for how to connect their course material to the world beyond the classroom, whether it be the biology of the leaves, the architecture of the buildings, the light from the Sun, or the history and anthropology of this area.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Using AI Bots for Experiential Learning<\/b><\/h3>\n

Amy Goldstein<\/a>, Courtney McDermott<\/a>, Joe Sansone<\/a>, Freedom Baird<\/a>, David Grogan<\/a>, Justin Horvath<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Discover how AI can help you bring experiential learning into your teaching. In this hands-on session, faculty will guide you through activities featuring two custom AI chat bots: one that simulates an intake interview, and another that supports applied problem-solving. Then we will reflect on what you learned and consider how you might incorporate bots into your teaching and experiential activity design. <\/span>Please bring a laptop, tablet or phone in order to fully participate. <\/span>If you are not sure what a custom AI chat bot is, this session is for you. If you are an experienced AI bot builder, this session is also for you.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hybrid<\/p>\n

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Links to Past December Teaching Symposia<\/h3>\n
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