Working with GenAI Learn the Skills to Harness New Tools at Work
Facilitator: José Antonio Bowen
When: April 7, 2025 2:00pm PDT
This introduction begins with which AI tool to use and how to think about tasks and prompting. AI prompts need to provide more human context and be more literal than the ones we tend to use with a search engine. Since AI uses natural human language, it also needs human-level communication precision: prompt as if you were talking to smart but naïve interns. Prompting is not at all like engineering. In this interactive workshop, you will get to practice lots of techniques on a wide variety of rapidly-evolving AI tools. Our goal is to get a realistic understanding of how AI is already changing human work and thinking and how you might begin to use it to improve your own work.
- We will develop skill using various AI tools.
- We will consider a range of staff tasks where AI might be useful.
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Teaching and Thinking with AI - Fall 2024
Facilitator: José Antonio Bowen
The CSU offered a series of webinars on Teaching and Thinking with AI, led by José Antonio Bowen, in Fall 2024:
- Introduction to Teaching and Thinking with A.I. -- September 24
- AI Literacy & Prompt Engineering -- October 15
- AI Grading, Detection, and Policies -- October 22
- AI Assignments and Assessments -- November 12
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The series, which originally ran in June 2024, was updated to include practice with the latest tools.
Introduction to Teaching and Thinking with AI
September 24, 2024 – 12pm – 1:30pm PST
AI is rapidly changing how humans work, think and communicate: it could improve or destroy human relationships. AI is also changing how we think about average. If AI can produce consistent "C" work, then we need to update our policies and grading. AI is even changing creativity. Courses, learning goals and curriculum will need to change in this new age.
This introduction will preview later topics and also give you a chance to frame how you think about AI.
AI Literacy & Prompt Engineering
October 15, 2024 – 12pm – 1:30pm PST
Both faculty and students needed a new digital literacy to apply the increased critical thinking needed in the internet age, and AI literacy is a critical new skill every teacher and graduate needs. The two largest complaints about AI responses are that they are either wrong or boring, but both are often the result of poor or bland prompting. AI prompts need to provide more human context and be more literal than the ones we tend to use with a search engine. Since AI uses natural human language, it also needs human-level communication precision.: asking your AI to slow down and think more carefully can greatly improve results! The features of better prompts-- task, format, voice and context--are direct extensions of the critical writing and thinking skills we already teach and value. In this interactive workshop, you will learn how to find the right AI tool for your task and get to compare and practice with different AIs.
AI Grading, Detection and Policies
October 22, 2024 – 12pm – 1:30pm PST
AI is also changing how we think about average. If an AI can produce consistent "C" work, then we need to update our policies around grading: why would an employer hire a “C” student if AI can do that level of work? Together, we will design new rubrics for an AI era that articulate how human ‘quality’ goes beyond AI. We will discuss what policies and practices improve motivation and decrease cheating, and why.
AI Assignments and Assessments
November 12, 2024 – 12pm – 1:30pm PST
All assignments are now AI Assignments. In the same way that the ease of finding information on the internet forced faculty to rethink what homework students did and how we wanted them to do it, we will all need an AI strategy for assignments and assessment. We will cover both ways to force students to write and alternative creative assignments that incorporate AI. Through a wide diversity of examples, we will also consider how we can reduce cheating and raise standards.
Teaching and Thinking with AI - Summer 2024
Facilitator: José Antonio Bowen
The
CSU
offered a series of webinars on Teaching and Thinking with A.I., led by
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, in June 2024. The series will be repeated in Fall 2024.
This first, one-hour webinar introduces the series.
The subsequent webinars were two-hours and highly interactive.
- Recordings, linked below, will be available to CSU faculty, staff, and administrators for a limited time.
- Access is restricted to CSU Zoom accounts.
Information about the Fall series will be posted soon.
Questions? csuitl@calstate.edu
Introduction to Teaching and Thinking with AI
June 10, 2024 -- 10am PST (60m)
This introduction will preview later topics and also give you a chance to frame how you think about AI. AI is rapidly changing how humans work, think and communicate: it could improve or destroy human relationships. AI is also changing how we think about average. If AI can produce consistent "C" work, then we need to update our policies and grading. AI is even changing creativity. Courses, learning goals and curriculum will need to change in this new age.
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AI Literacy & Prompt Engineering
June 12, 2024 -- 10am PST (120m)
Both faculty and students needed a new digital literacy to apply the increased critical thinking needed in the internet age, and AI literacy is a critical new skill every teacher and graduate needs. The two largest complaints about AI responses are that they are either wrong or boring, but both are often the result of poor or bland prompting. AI prompts need to provide more human context and be more literal than the ones we tend to use with a search engine. Since AI uses natural human language, it also needs human-level communication precision.: asking your AI to slow down and think more carefully can greatly improve results! The features of better prompts-- task, format, voice and context--are direct extensions of the critical writing and thinking skills we already teach and value. In this interactive workshop, you will learn how to find the right AI tool for your task and get to compare and practice with different AIs.
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AI Grading, Detection and Policies
June 17, 2024 -- 10am PST (120m)
AI is also changing how we think about average. If an AI can produce consistent "C" work, then we need to update our policies around grading: why would an employer hire a “C” student if AI can do that level of work? Together, we will design new rubrics for an AI era that articulate how human ‘quality’ goes beyond AI. We will discuss what policies and practices improve motivation and decrease cheating, and why.
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AI Assignments and Assessments
June 24, 2024 -- 10am PST (120m)
All assignments are now AI Assignments. In the same way that the ease of finding information on the internet forced faculty to rethink what homework students did and how we wanted them to do it, we will all need an AI strategy for assignments and assessment. We will cover both ways to force students to write and alternative creative assignments that incorporate AI. Through a wide diversity of examples, we will also consider how we can reduce cheating and raise standards.
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Additional webinars with Dr. Bowen are going to be scheduled in Fall 2024.
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