Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

Brittany Hochstaetter

Wake Technical Community College - Raleigh NC

Senior Communication Professor

Raleigh, NC

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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

9:00am EDT

What’s happening now with AI, and what will come next? Free Pre-Conference Coastal 8Kevin Yee

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

AAC&U Lunch Coastal 9 Buffet Lunch Exhibit Hall F

1:00pm EDT

How to Bring AI & Entrepreneurship to the Trades & Workforce Development Desoto 2Melissa Brooks AI Safety: What to Know Before You Hit Enter Desoto 3Mary Ann Hughes Butts • Ayla Koch From Idea to Interactive: Supercharging Lessons with Gemini Canvas & Claude Artifacts Coastal 6Shannon Eastep

1:50pm EDT

Can AI Make My Class More Fun? Using Humor-Enhanced Teaching Content to Capture Student Attention Coastal BallroomShikhar Acharya

2:20pm EDT

AI Playground EscambiaCharley Butcher • Sandra Perez • Melisa Balos • Emanuel Cortes Lugo • Anastasia Bojanowski The Regional AI Ecosystem: Faculty Fellows, eLearning Execution, and Community Partnerships Powering Workforce-Aligned AI Lafayette 5Christopher Prokes AI in Military Education: How students and faculty view and use AI Coastal 9Amanda Rosen

3:00pm EDT

Be a TRAIIL-Blazer! Learn About Our AI Repository Coastal 10Nicole Stahl • Sarah Norris Useful, Not Magical: Teaching Students to Find Sources and Verify Claims with AI Desoto 4Dr. Laura Adele Soracco Intersections of AI and Culture in the Classroom Lafayette 2Elizabeth Giltner • Lili Yan What Are Your Students Missing? Accessibility in the Age of AI Desoto 5David Greene • Harmonize Learning

3:40pm EDT

AI Playground EscambiaJennifer Skelton • Daniel Ruelle • Emanuel Cortes Lugo • Rebecca McNulty Designing Custom AI Research Assistants: Linguistics Cases with Cross-Disciplinary Applications Escambia HallwayRafael Orozco • Latasha Valenzuela Developing an Ethical AI Ecosystem Suwannee 2Tina Lancaster • George Swindell The Robot Referee: GenAI and Wargaming at the United States Military Academy Escambia HallwayJames Martin

3:50pm EDT

Leveraging Generative AI for Immersive Learning Coastal BallroomSara Evans • Kristina DuRocher

4:20pm EDT

"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 Trivia Coastal 6Rachel 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 Stick It, Share It: AI Teaching & Learning Exchange Coastal LandingLauren Kehoe

9:00am EDT

AI in Action. Empowering a Blind Colleague with Generative AI for Accessibility Suwannee 2David Ecker AI Playground: Setting Up a Low-Lift, High-Value PD Session for Faculty Coastal BallroomJesika Brooks What Happens to Quiet Students When AI Speaks for Them? Voice, Identity, and Inclusion in AI-Mediated Learning EscambiaEunjeong Shin Ethical Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Graduate Research: A Mixed-Methods Study Advancing Pedagogical Innovation and Digital Literacy Coastal 9Dione Thomas Designing for Everyone: Student-Led Experiential Labs for Teaching Accessible Computing with AI Escambia HallwayBrooke Myers • Nicolas Scarangelli • Anindya Paul “But AI Said It Was True”: Teaching Students to Question the Machine Lafayette 5Michelle DeWalt Returning to Music After Traumatic Injury: A Practice-as-Research Study on AI-Assisted Practice EscambiaKristin Wolski

9:40am EDT

“Is AI Allowed?”: Designing Transparent AI-Integrated Assignments Desoto 1Rebecca Leis Pedagogical Innovation in the Age of AI: Teaching Ethical AI Integration in First-Year Composition Coastal BallroomLeanna Fry From Classroom to Campus: Institutional AI Value Statements Lafayette 2Alexis Ramsey AI Alt-Text Helper: Make Course Content Accessible Using LLM’s Lafayette 5Jaydon Krooss

10:20am EDT

Using AI to Mimic In-Class Interactions in an Asynchronous Session for Case-Based Learning Desoto 2Kersten T Schroeder AI Use, Ethical Decision-Making, and the Open-Ended Case Method: Promises and Perils Suwannee 3Angelo Carlo Carrascoso Learning & Assessment in 2030: A Collaborative Exploration of What Comes Next Coastal 8Adam King • Julia Sabin • Brook Corwin

11:00am EDT

The Theft of our Data & The Great Reframe Coastal BallroomBrittney Schultz Beyond Technical Training: Building Emotionally Intelligent AI Adoption Through Cognitive Trust, Secure Design, and the V-E-V Framework Lafayette 1Shahid Ali

11:30am EDT

Buffet Lunch Exhibit Hall F

1:00pm EDT

Creative Agency in the Age of Generative AI: Authorship, Disclosure, and Rights in Higher Education Lafayette 4Kimberly Goddard Loeffert AI as Cognitive Apprentice: Preserving Faculty Judgment in AI-Influenced Teaching and Learning Lafayette 2Jeannette Shaffer Guardrails, not gotchas: Ethics and policy in AI Suwannee 2Christian Moriarty

1:40pm EDT

Weekly Prompts Instead of Weekly Readings Coastal 8Billy Kihei The Disclosure Dilemma: Navigating AI Transparency in Course Materials Lafayette 4Dr. Greig Powers The Online Educator's AI Playbook Lafayette 3Wilson Rojas Actionable AI Integration for First‑Year Writing Courses Lafayette 1Margaret (Peg) Aubin

2:00pm EDT

Smart Support: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Personalize Remediation and Advance Student Success Coastal BallroomJanet Huxley

2:20pm EDT

AI for Nonprofits: Designing AI Education That Transfers Across Disciplines Suwannee 4Rasha Mannaa AI at EBSCO: Our Approach and Impact Desoto 5Michael Napoleone • EBSCO Teaching for Tomorrow: Futures Thinking and AI Literacy for Community College Classrooms Lafayette 5Yhosemar Mendez Sanchez

3:00pm EDT

Wait...Microsoft Copilot Can Do That?! Desoto 1Alissa Harrington The REAL Framework: An Ethical Solution for Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Tools Coastal 9Martin Jones 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 Team Quest Bot: An Active, Engaging, and Fun Way to Assess Team Strengths Desoto 3Katie Wheeler • Haley Hegeman

3:20pm EDT

Building a Teaching Toolkit for AI Ethics Coastal BallroomHannah Rozear

3:40pm EDT

I Built an AI Feedback Agent So I Could Stop Repeating Myself - Designing a Course-Specific AI Feedback Agent in 10 Minutes Coastal BallroomShalini Gopalkrishnan The State of Copyright and AI: 2026 Updates Suwannee 2Sarah Norris Design Thinking and Visual Communication in the Age of AI with Adobe Coastal 10Todd Taylor • Jim Brungo • Chris Lutz • Adobe

4:20pm EDT

Who Makes the Ethical Decision When AI Does the Analysis? Lafayette 5Eunjeong Shin Generative AI in Education: Transferable Training for Workforce Development Lafayette 4Michelle Allgood • Ashlee Frandell

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

Applying the "4D" AI Fluency Framework to Your Discipline and Practice Coastal 6Rick Dakan 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 The AI Assessment Scale (AIAS): Practical Application and Lessons Learned in Transparency and Utility Coastal BallroomJessica Milton

9:40am EDT

Just Fold it In: Bite-Size AI Literacy Wherever You Are Lafayette 4Laurie Borchard • Amber Janssen Student Perceptions of Generative Artificial Intelligence EscambiaJennifer Skelton The Curriculum Developer's Secret Weapon: Hands-On with Google’s NotebookLM Desoto 2Rolando Ramos From Reaction to Reflection: Using AI to Rethink Responses to Challenging Classroom Behavior Lafayette 2Markéta Košatková Same Dance, New Tune: Eight Steps for Ethical AI in Academic Writing Suwannee 1Art Brownlow

10:20am EDT

A Three-tiered Approach to AI Conscious Teaching Lafayette 2Ray Bailey • Gina Gonzalez The "Boss" of the Bot: Empowering Faculty Control through RAG and Socratic Prompting Lafayette 4Peter Bodary Tool as the Lens: An AI-Resistant Case Critique System That Builds Strategic Thinking Suwannee 4Francesca Dunlevy • Michael Houston The AI Commons: A Strategic Roadmap for Building a Centralized Campus Spaces for AI Literacy and Innovation Lafayette 5Mahesh Neelakanta • Alex Ambrose • Yanran Chen • Gregory Wilson • Dayna Durbin AI on Trial: Teaching Justice, Ethics, and Equity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Lafayette 1Dr. Jack Monell Authority Without Answers: Teaching Judgment in an AI-Saturated Classroom Suwannee 2Scott D'Amico Integrating AI Tools for Critical Evaluation and Comparative Learning Desoto 3Jennifer Friedman Preservice Teachers and Generative AI in Special Education: What They Use, How They Use It, and What Teacher Preparation Must Address Desoto 4Jamie Day

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