I am an educational developer partnering with our writing center to offer a free webinar series on a whole-person response to AI. My writing assistant colleagues and I would like to request that the series be shared through your WPA Announcements. One workshop in the series is explicitly focused on writing and composition, but every session will be relevant to writing center professionals and CCCC attendees.
I’m sending this message through my institutional email, so I’m including my personal email (adamson.cwd) that is a member of the Google Group.
Would you mind posting the webinar message included at the end of this email to WPA Announcements.
Thank you for curating this listserv,
Chris
Dear Colleagues,
Join the Character Education in the Age of Automation series for webinars and discussions that approach emerging technology from the insights of whole-person education. This series, part of the Center’s Empowering Ethical Leaders Initiative, promotes human flourishing and dignity through integrating character education and mature technology-adoption in the classroom.
The following sessions, held from May to September, are free and open to the public.
Integrating Modern AI in the Holistic Classroom (May 10th, 10-11:30 AM)
What could character have to do with ChatGPT? Why turn to ideas of virtue and care ethics when evaluating the educational impact of generative and predictive AI? This session starts the series with a discussion of the intellectual habits and dispositions needed for students to become mature evaluators of emerging technologies beyond available tools in the current AI hype cycle. Participants will be introduced to whole-person perspectives that can guide technology integration in the classroom, including the Jubilee Centre Framework for Character Education and the care ethics theory of Educational Caritas. Participants will then reflect on appropriate technology use in their disciplines in light of these frameworks, develop AI-assisted assessments, and draft transparent AI assessment policies.