Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

Leann McArthur

Turnitin

Senior Customer Success Manager NOA HE Strategic Accounts

Oregon, US

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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

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

1:00pm EDT

Redesigning General Education with AI: From Enduring Questions to Transferable Skills Escambia HallwayMartina Saltamacchia • Amy Ellefson Designing AI for Teaching, Not Just Access: What Students Actually Ask an AI (and Why That Matters for Teaching) Coastal 10Keirah Comstock, Ph.D. • Yvonne Xu

1:10pm EDT

The Worst Writer in the Newsroom Is a Robot (And That's the Point) Coastal BallroomMelissa Chessher • Adam Peruta

1:40pm EDT

From Prompting to Learning: Making Student Reasoning Visible in an AI-Enabled Blended Humanities Course Desoto 5Lars Jones When AI Reads Student Work: Using Machine Interpretation as Pedagogical Feedback Desoto 3Russell Michalak • Eman Al-Drous, PhD

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

Principles for GenAI Use in First-Year Composition at UCF: Enacting Program Values through Collective Action to Support Instructors and Students Lafayette 4Pamela Baker • Emily Proulx • Nikolas Gardiakos • Meeghan Faulconer • Shane Wood AI and Belonging: Playful Activities for First-Year Learning Lafayette 3Bridget Lillethorup AI in Military Education: How students and faculty view and use AI Coastal 9Amanda Rosen

2:30pm EDT

Keeping Up Without Burning Out: Using AI to Move from Evidence to Assessment Coastal BallroomJ'Laine Proctor

2:50pm EDT

A Practical Framework for Embedding AI into Reflection-Heavy Courses and Assignments Coastal BallroomAnzar Khaliq

3:00pm EDT

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

Student Voice First: Redesigning Writing Courses for the AI Era Through Story, Scaffolding, and Human-Centered Learning Coastal 6Britt Honeycutt AI and the Apocalypse: Saving the Human Voice from Annihilation Suwannee 4Tricia Foster • Alicia K. Garcia Designing with Nuance: Preparing Students for an AI-Mediated Information Landscape Coastal 10Amandajean F. Nolte Teaching Microbiology with Generative AI: Tips and Tools to Leverage Innovative AI Capabilities to Empower Microbiology Faculty to Integrate AI into Courses Escambia HallwayJordan Steel • Michael Barnhart

4:20pm EDT

AI, Choice, and Voice: What Happens when AI Enters the Rhetorical Situation? Desoto 3Wendy Swyt Teaching What AI Cannot Do: Reimagining Human Competencies in Higher Education Coastal 10Elle Corvette

5:00pm EDT

Happy Hour Coastal Ballroom

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

Your AI Compass: A Values-Driven Approach to Teaching & Learning With AI Desoto 4Chad Rohrbacher • Tracy Mendolia, PhD • Tess St. John Ethical Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Graduate Research: A Mixed-Methods Study Advancing Pedagogical Innovation and Digital Literacy Coastal 9Dione Thomas Strategic AI readiness in higher education: A hands-on introduction to the AI Strategy Compass (AISC) Coastal 6Ines Springael “But AI Said It Was True”: Teaching Students to Question the Machine Lafayette 5Michelle DeWalt AI is not a tool: metaphors, ethics and agency Lafayette 2Amy Ruopp • James Garvey

9:20am EDT

What Makes Learning Human? An Evaluation of AI-Generation in Academics Coastal BallroomMadison Hecker

9:40am EDT

AI as Thinking, Practice, and Support Partner: Redesigning an Interdisciplinary Research Methods Course Coastal 10Kevin Jardaneh • Susan Spraker-Jardaneh • Shelly Wyatt How do we navigate students’ perception of AI replacing workers? Lafayette 3John Sherlock Using Critical Reflection to Support Significant Learning with GenAI: A Learn-Change-Grow Strategy Lafayette 4Byron Havard • Lauren Adlof • Holley Handley “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

10:20am EDT

Don’t Fail the AI Sniff Test: An Aristotelian Cure for Stale Prose Lafayette 4Jill Quandt AI Use, Ethical Decision-Making, and the Open-Ended Case Method: Promises and Perils Suwannee 3Angelo Carlo Carrascoso Beyond the Answer Engine: Using AI to Support Student Thinking, Not Replace It Desoto 4Diego Alvarado Learning & Assessment in 2030: A Collaborative Exploration of What Comes Next Coastal 8Adam King • Julia Sabin • Brook Corwin AI Fluency for Freshmen: Insights from Teaching a Dedicated Course Online, Hybrid, and In-Person Desoto 5Candyce Nelson Fluency ≠ Literacy: Practical Strategies to Scaffold, Not Offload Escambia HallwayRachel Rupprecht, Ph.D. • Heidi Keller • Vanessa Hormann

11:00am EDT

Teaching AI With Joy: The Reframing That Changes Everything Coastal 9Mikhael Loo

11:30am EDT

Buffet Lunch Exhibit Hall F

1:00pm EDT

AI With Guardrails: Practical Course Design for Learning and Academic Integrity Desoto 5Andrew Wright • Rui Sundrup Ditching Detectors: Promoting Trust with AI in the Classroom EscambiaStephanie Korslund RGAR (Rigor): A Conceptual Approach to AI-Enhanced Learning Activities Desoto 3Aubry Jacques • Jessica Bosinger 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 Designing AI Experiments in the Writing Classroom Desoto 2Stephanie Young

1:40pm EDT

Actionable AI Integration for First‑Year Writing Courses Lafayette 1Margaret (Peg) Aubin

2:20pm EDT

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

3:00pm EDT

(Rescheduled) Using LLMs as Adversarial Thought Partners in U.S. Higher Education Coastal BallroomRobert Macy

3:40pm EDT

Repeatable Results: Using AI to Create Consistent, High-Quality Teaching Practices Lafayette 3Brian Holbert Designing AI-Resilient Assessments That Support Learning and Integrity Lafayette 4Janice Woodruff Error as Opportunity: A New Approach to Engaging Learners in Higher Education Coastal 9Ipek Yucelen • Seden Dogan AI Prompting and the Basics of Communication EscambiaJulia Hildebrand The State of Copyright and AI: 2026 Updates Suwannee 2Sarah Norris

4:20pm EDT

Rewriting the Rules of Teaching: Designing with, Not Against, AI Desoto 5Doreen Mayrell Designing Open Assessments in the Age of AI: Integrated and Resilient Approaches Desoto 2Logan Harvey Composition and Chat GPT: AI as a Writing Tool Lafayette 1Katelyn Thompson Mind the Gap: Preparing Graduates for the New AI Workforce Suwannee 4Christina Gipson • Dean Richards 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 Let’s Talk: Rethinking Online Discussion Boards in the Era of Generative AI Suwannee 1Karen Wolak 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

Business Ethics in Action: AI Coaching and Role-Based Learning Coastal 9Rebecca Nichols Coaching, not Coasting: Building Effective Human-AI Ecosystems for Writers Across the Curriculum Desoto 2Jared Holton • Lindsey Harding Leaning In Carefully: Designing Experiential Assignments That Use AI Without Undermining Learning Suwannee 3Elizabeth Muniz Learning in the Tension: How Varied Faculty AI Approaches Prepare Students for an Uncertain Future Suwannee 2Susan Purrington • Matthew Gardzina Making Learning Visible in an AI-Rich Classroom: An Evidence Framework for Assessment and Grading Suwannee 1Daniel Forrester Ctrl + Alt + Delete: Rebooting Pedagogy and Practice for Teaching with AI Lafayette 3Annette Jones • Christopher Riley • Robert Fuselier • Liying Miao

9:40am EDT

Student Perceptions of Generative Artificial Intelligence EscambiaJennifer Skelton Making Thinking Visible Again: Scaffolding Tool Use in the AI Era Coastal 6Dr. Lindsay Konradt How Faculty Are Using Generative AI: An Analysis of Over 300 "GenAI Plans" for Course Enhancement Lafayette 3Lindsey Mercer The Curriculum Developer's Secret Weapon: Hands-On with Google’s NotebookLM Desoto 2Rolando Ramos Human + AI Co-Learning: The Faculty–Student CoLab Model and Reflective AI Pedagogy Coastal 9Maka Tsulukidze Plagiarism and Academic Integrity 101 in the Age of AI Suwannee 3Melisa Balos

10:20am EDT

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

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