AI Workshops

The CTL offers a variety of workshops related to AI.  All workshops can be held in-person or virtually.  You can request any of these workshops by emailing ctl@kent.edu or clicking here.  

 

All of these workshop counts towards the AI-Ready Educator Recognition.  Click here to learn more about this recognition.  

 

15-minute Workshop in a Flash:

Workshops in a Flash are 15 minute mobile mini-workshops, facilitated by CTL staff.  They can easily be changed to last 30 minutes as well and are designed to be delivered to groups of instructors during informal gatherings or departmental meetings. Workshops in a Flash are meant to start exploration of a chosen topic with continued support from the Center as requested.  There are 17 new offerings:  

GAI Basics (3 options)
  • Introducing Your Students to GAI:  Explore easy, effective ways to introduce students to generative AI tools, including how to address capabilities, limitations, and ethical considerations from day one.
  • Help Your Students Understand Your GAI Policy:  Discover tips and examples for clearly communicating your course AI policy to students, while promoting shared understanding and academic integrity
  • GAI & Sustainability:  Explore the environmental implications of AI use in education and come away with practices that decrease energy use and alternatives to individual prompting
Engage Students With GAI (7 options)
  • Helping Students Reflect While Using GAI:  Use and adapt a simple student-facing checklist to guide reflection on when, why, and how they use AI—helping them develop responsible habits and metacognitive skills.
  • Promoting Student Critical Thinking After GAI Use:  Help students move beyond passive use of AI tools by engaging them in reflection, comparison, and critique—strengthening their analytical thinking and decision-making.
  • Helping Students Prompt GAI Effectively:  Learn strategies to teach students how to craft clear, purposeful prompts that lead to more useful outputs from generative AI tools
  • Playful Ways to Incorporate GAI Into Your Class:  Bring curiosity and creativity into your classroom with playful, low-stakes activities that let students explore generative AI while building comfort and competence.
  • GAI Learning Objectives To Consider:  Review sample learning outcomes associated with generative AI use from lower order to higher order thinking, and consider how to adapt or add them to your own course 
  • GAI to Support Student Groupwork:  Explore ways generative AI can support student collaboration—like team skill identification and helping brainstorm team reflection 
  • GAI to Support Student Studying:  Discover how students can use generative AI to quiz themselves, explain difficult topics, and reinforce understanding—while learning to evaluate its accuracy. 
GAI to Support Your Teaching (7 options)
  • GAI Assisted Quiz Design:  Learn how to use generative AI to brainstorm, generate, and revise quiz questions that align with your content, difficulty level, and desired learning outcomes
  • GAI Image Generation:  See how AI can help create relevant images for teaching—while also discussing ethical and accessibility considerations.
  • Summarization & Research Support with GAI:  This is an introduction for how AI can help you summarize readings, organize sources, or explore unfamiliar topics.  We will talk how this can be used by your students to help them develop their research literacy and skepticism.
  • GAI to Help Give Alternative Choices For Students (support UDL):  Learn how AI can help you tailor content, formats, and supports to meet diverse student needs—making it easier to personalize learning without increasing your workload.
  • GAI to Help Instructors Develop Case Studies:  Save time and spark ideas by using generative AI to develop customized case studies and scenarios relevant to your discipline or course goals.
  • GAI to Support Instructor Feedback for Students:  Learn how AI can streamline and support the feedback process, from generating starter comments to personalizing guidance—while ensuring that your expertise and judgement are at the forefront of feedback
  • Enhancing Student Engagement with GAI:  Experiment with template prompts and AI tools that can help generate ideas to increase student engagement and energize your course

If you are unsure which Workshop in a Flash to choose, feel free to publish this survey form and ask your instructors for their preference.  Multiple Workshops in a Flash can be requested for a session or across a semester. 

 

 

30-minute AI-Playground Workshops:

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Each 30-minute workshop covers one application of AI, offering practical demonstrations and a chance to try out AI tools with support.  If you'd like any of this workshops for your unit, maybe during a faculty meeting or other time, please email ctl@kent.edu.  (these mini-workshops were not recorded)

  • Enhancing Engagement with AI
  • Image & Visual Content Creation
  • Creating Case Studies with AI
  • AI-Assisted Quiz & Assessment Questions
  • Summarization with AI Tools
  • AI-Assisted Rubric & Feedback Generation
 

 

60-90 minute Workshops:  

  • Strategies to Support Responsible Student Use of AI
  • Unlocking Increased Instructor Efficiency and Creativity with Generative AI
  • Crafting and communicating AI policies for the classroom
  • AI and student writing:  Critical Considerations for Instructors
  • Responding to Unexpected AI Use
  • KSU Faculty Reflect on GenAI (panel - recording only)

Click here to view recordings of our previously offerings

 

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