Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

Ayla Koch

College of Southern Nevada

Math Professor

Las Vegas, NV

8:00am EDT

Recharge Lounge CitrusAdobe • Apporto • Boodlebox • Curricu • D2L • EBSCO • iDesign • SchoolAI • QuadC • Turnitin • Verballi • Feedback Fruits • McGraw Hill • Harmonize Learning • Kyron Learning Registration Coastal Landing

10:30am EDT

Conference Welcome Coastal BallroomWendy Howard • Kevin Yee

11:00am EDT

Opening Keynote: Teaching AI and Teaching with AI: Charting the Evolution of Learning, Curriculum, and Professional Practice Coastal BallroomC. Edward Watson

12:00pm EDT

Buffet Lunch Exhibit Hall F

1:40pm EDT

From Virtual Classrooms to Real Impact: Using VR and AI to Enhance Teacher Candidate Practice Desoto 1Zachary Adams

2:20pm EDT

AI Exploration Stations: a Model for Training Faculty and Staff on AI Tools Desoto 1Bonny Cable • Jonathan Barlar AI and Belonging: Playful Activities for First-Year Learning Lafayette 3Bridget Lillethorup The ‘Master Student Advisor’: Mass Personalization in Higher Education through Generative AI Suwannee 2Sandro Sanchez From Lesson to Workplace: AI-Cheat-Proof, Career-Ready Assessment Design Coastal 6Lisa Troy • Shweta Homji

3:00pm EDT

Useful, Not Magical: Teaching Students to Find Sources and Verify Claims with AI Desoto 4Dr. Laura Adele Soracco What Are Your Students Missing? Accessibility in the Age of AI Desoto 5David Greene • Harmonize Learning What Are Students Really Learning About AI Before College? Five Lessons from K–12 and Their Impact on Higher Education Suwannee 1Carrie Meyers • James Reynolds

3:40pm EDT

Beyond “Allowed” or “Banned”: Teaching Responsible AI Use Through Transparency, Verification, and Student Ownership Lafayette 1Toby Brooks • Ashley Barrett AI and the Apocalypse: Saving the Human Voice from Annihilation Suwannee 4Tricia Foster • Alicia K. Garcia What Students Learn With—and Without—AI: A Practical Teaching Framework Lafayette 3Milagros Sanoja Karaoke, Call-Ins, and Mic Drops: Amplifying Student Voice with AI Lafayette 5Alissa Harrington From Chaos to Order: Human vs. AI Analysis of Library Chats Desoto 4Andrew Carlos • Sophia Mosbe

4:20pm EDT

We Say “AI Literacy”… But What Are We Teaching and Grading? Suwannee 1Angela Walters From Policy to Practice: An Institutional Strategy for Advancing GenAI Fluency Lafayette 4Luciana Arronche • Jeffrey T. Olimpo "I Don't Know Yet": Building Communities Where Faculty Can Think Out Loud About AI Lafayette 5Jennifer Potter Using AI Tools in Canvas: Practical Teaching Strategies Lafayette 3Nicolas Hanhan Teaching What AI Cannot Do: Reimagining Human Competencies in Higher Education Coastal 10Elle Corvette

5:00pm EDT

Happy Hour Coastal Ballroom

6:00pm EDT

PowerPoint Karaoke Coastal 9Rachel Vacek

8:00am EDT

Breakfast Buffet Coastal Ballroom Recharge Lounge CitrusAdobe • Apporto • Boodlebox • Curricu • D2L • EBSCO • iDesign • SchoolAI • QuadC • Turnitin • Verballi • Feedback Fruits • McGraw Hill • Harmonize Learning • Kyron Learning Registration Coastal Landing

9:00am EDT

“But AI Said It Was True”: Teaching Students to Question the Machine Lafayette 5Michelle DeWalt

9:40am EDT

Co-Intelligence in Action: Student–AI Collaboration in Class Projects Lafayette 1Gamze Yilmaz Avoiding Libel (and Possible Defamation Consequences) in the Age of AI Detection: Lessons from Journalism for Higher Education Desoto 2Thomas Pear AI Fluency at Scale: A Faculty & Staff Development Model Coastal 9Rachel Hoke The Purposeful Struggle: Designing Learning That Matters in the Age of AI Desoto 5Candyce Nelson From Classroom to Campus: Institutional AI Value Statements Lafayette 2Alexis Ramsey

10:20am EDT

A Human-Centered AI Strategy for Faculty Development Lafayette 3Jennifer Rider • Marnie Clay Don’t Fail the AI Sniff Test: An Aristotelian Cure for Stale Prose Lafayette 4Jill Quandt Building AI Creative Labs: A Model for Hands-On AI Learning at Scale Desoto 3Zachary Lonsinger • Markus Furer Learning & Assessment in 2030: A Collaborative Exploration of What Comes Next Coastal 8Adam King • Julia Sabin • Brook Corwin From Concept to Practice: Launching a Peer-Driven AI Teaching and Learning Lab Coastal 10Melanie Gagich

11:00am EDT

AI in Academia & the World: The Current State of Play Desoto 5Leann McArthur • Kathryn Williams-Walker • Turnitin From Traditional to AI-Native: Adapting Curriculum for the BoodleBox AI-Enabled Classroom Coastal 10France Hoang • Boodlebox Teaching AI With Joy: The Reframing That Changes Everything Coastal 9Mikhael Loo Conversational voice-based AI agent for skills assessment Lafayette 4Sandro Sanchez

11:30am EDT

Buffet Lunch Exhibit Hall F

1:00pm EDT

What if Everyone Could Build AI Applications? Vibe Coding Across Disciplines and Backgrounds (#K-12Educators, #CollegeInstructors, #Nocodetools) Coastal 7Md Ulfat Tahsin Grade the Human, Not the Homework: Assessing Understanding Instead of the Artifact Coastal 6Ashley Evans Creative Agency in the Age of Generative AI: Authorship, Disclosure, and Rights in Higher Education Lafayette 4Kimberly Goddard Loeffert Connection is the Antidote: Harnessing Belonging, Agency, and Purpose to Reduce AI-Era Misconduct Coastal 8Karen Haslett • Danielle Maya Pratt, PhD • Devon Cadwell Bazata • Mandy Pacheco Sparking Change through AI Faculty Learning Communities Coastal 9Cub Kahn From Vibe to Variable: Driving Rapid Prototyping and Sophisticated Tool Development in the AI Studio Lafayette 3Rebecca McNulty

1:40pm EDT

From Idea to Infrastructure: Building the COBALT Initiative for Sustainable, Faculty-Centered AI Integration Suwannee 3Amanda Main • Sean Robb Building AI Literacy in Schools: A Hands-On AI and Computer Science Lab Workshop Desoto 2Christopher Randles • Laxima Niure Kandel • Heather Mullins Engaging Today's Students with Tomorrow's Teaching Lafayette 2Dee Bohne

2:20pm EDT

Inside AI-Enhanced Courses: Intentional Criteria for Practical Gen-AI Integration Lafayette 2Desiree Henderson • Alexandra Ward AI at EBSCO: Our Approach and Impact Desoto 5Michael Napoleone • EBSCO Talk Back to the Machine: Reclaiming Discussion in the AI Era Coastal 9Jessica Slisher • Heather Olson Teaching for Tomorrow: Futures Thinking and AI Literacy for Community College Classrooms Lafayette 5Yhosemar Mendez Sanchez Vibe Coding for the Liberal Arts: From AI Literacy to Future-Ready Careers Coastal 10Tommy Xie Applications and Reflections From an AI Unit Plan Assignment in a Fall 2025 Teacher Education Course Suwannee 1Christy Goldsmith

3:00pm EDT

What 100 Partners Taught Us: Lessons Learned from Launching BoodleBox at 100 Campuses Desoto 4France Hoang • Boodlebox Wait...Microsoft Copilot Can Do That?! Desoto 1Alissa Harrington Dinner is Served: How Faculty Development Created a “Choose-Your-Own-Assessment” Menu for AI-Enhanced Teaching and Learning Desoto 2Shauna Maragh • Jennifer Fontaine • Kevin Colwell AI Bytes: Small Sessions, Big Impact Suwannee 2JD Weagley • Jenny Monarch McGuire From Pedagogical Intent to Structured Data: An AI-Assisted Workflow for Course Revision and Redesign Lafayette 3Rebecca McNulty Learning Together in Ambiguity: What Cross-Institutional Dialogues Reveal About Teaching with AI Lafayette 1Kari Weaver • Thomas Olson

3:40pm EDT

Robot, Revise This: Teaching Voice in an AI World Suwannee 1Danielle Alric Standards in Action: A WCAG-Compliant AI Guide for Students Desoto 2James Darney • Cara Idol The Adventure Option: Transforming STEM Activities with AI, Creativity, and a Dash of Chaos Suwannee 3Ramona Smith • Hannah Bevan Error as Opportunity: A New Approach to Engaging Learners in Higher Education Coastal 9Ipek Yucelen • Seden Dogan The State of Copyright and AI: 2026 Updates Suwannee 2Sarah Norris Building Faculty Capacity for AI-Rich Teaching: Insights from a Collective Teaching Lab Lafayette 5Priyadharshini Sivakumar

4:20pm EDT

Always the Antagonist: How AI Tropes Create Barriers to Buy-In Suwannee 2Jackson Bostian Rewriting the Rules of Teaching: Designing with, Not Against, AI Desoto 5Doreen Mayrell Mind the Gap: Preparing Graduates for the New AI Workforce Suwannee 4Christina Gipson • Dean Richards Teaching Students to Prompt AI for Understanding: Evidence-Based Strategies from a Calculus Course Desoto 3Jared Campbell • Jooyoung Park If AI Can Do It, It’s Not What You Should Be Grading: Using Process-Based Rubrics to Restore Trust, Rigor, and Human Writing in the Age of AI Lafayette 2Kristi Yorks Student Experiences with AI-Supported Tutoring in Undergraduate Math and Biology Desoto 1Virginia Thompson

5:45pm EDT

Machine in the Shell: A Live “Turing” Test Social Desoto 1Patrick Green

6:00pm EDT

Board Game Night Desoto 3Rachel Vacek

8:00am EDT

Breakfast Buffet Coastal Ballroom Luggage Storage Coastal 10 Recharge Lounge CitrusAdobe • Apporto • Boodlebox • Curricu • D2L • EBSCO • iDesign • SchoolAI • QuadC • Turnitin • Verballi • Feedback Fruits • McGraw Hill • Harmonize Learning • Kyron Learning Registration Coastal Landing

9:00am EDT

How Faculty can avoid obsolescence in the age of AI. Lafayette 4David Holder No-Budget, High-Engagement: Free Classroom Games You Can Create with AI in 30 Minutes Lafayette 2Liz Winer • Lauren Oliveira Rehearsing the Hard Moments: AI-Supported Simulations for Classroom Management Desoto 3Scott D'Amico • Lucinda G. Flores Making Learning Visible in an AI-Rich Classroom: An Evidence Framework for Assessment and Grading Suwannee 1Daniel Forrester AI for Data Interpretation & Visualization: Teaching Students to Explain, Not Just Compute Coastal 8Corron Sanders

9:40am EDT

Just Fold it In: Bite-Size AI Literacy Wherever You Are Lafayette 4Laurie Borchard • Amber Janssen How Faculty Are Using Generative AI: An Analysis of Over 300 "GenAI Plans" for Course Enhancement Lafayette 3Lindsey Mercer STEM Lab Classes Need AI Too! EscambiaStephen King • Linda King

10:20am EDT

AI in Faculty Development: Using AI-Assisted Summaries to Optimize Resource Cataloging for the Institutional Navigation and Connection Hub (INCH) Initiative Desoto 2Erin Barnes

11:00am EDT

Closing Keynote: Higher Education in the AI Revolution, From Polycrisis to Pedagogy Coastal BallroomBryan Alexander

12:00pm EDT

Closing Message Coastal BallroomWendy Howard • Kevin Yee