Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

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Maria Florez

Dona Ana Community College

Biology assistant professor

Las Cruces, NM

About me

I’m new to SABER and very excited to learn more about education research in Biology!

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

First Time Attendee Free Pre-Conference Coastal 7Eric Main • Lauren Kehoe 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

Buffet Lunch Exhibit Hall F Stick It, Share It: AI Teaching & Learning Exchange Coastal LandingLauren Kehoe

1:00pm EDT

Beyond Detection: How Oral Assessment Diagnoses Your Teaching, Not Just Their Cheating Desoto 5Brandon Nash • Megan Butterworth • Verballi From text-based lecture notes to audio podcasts: A faculty-instructional technologist collaboration Escambia HallwayOmer Arslan Identifying Gaps in Student’s Knowledge of AI in Information Literacy Escambia HallwayTerri Gotschall • Caitlyn Misteri Don't Build Agents, Build Skills: Teaching Foundation-Level AI Competencies for All Instructors Coastal 7Tatiana Rudchenko • Lantz Ferrell • Meredith Lancaster 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 AI For Humans: Ensuring Technological Advancements Serve Students and Teachers, Not Vice Versa! Desoto 4Jacob Dallas Using the EQUITY-AI Decision-Making Framework in Teaching and Learning Coastal 8LoriAnn Stretch If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em: Best Practices for Responsibly Integrating AI into the Classroom Desoto 1Colleen Skinner 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

1:30pm EDT

Hands-On Learning in an AI World Coastal BallroomTommi Barrett

1:40pm EDT

A "Human-in-the-Loop" Framework for AI-Generated Cases Coastal 10Glori Hinck • Lesley Scibora Cheese, Chocolate and Artisanal AI: Strategies for Engaging AI-Resistant Faculty Through Culinary Workshops Desoto 2Rachael Zeleny

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 Chat didn’t start the fire: The systems that made ChatGPT the scapegoat for an industry already burning Lafayette 2Caitlyn Misteri AI Exploration Stations: a Model for Training Faculty and Staff on AI Tools Desoto 1Bonny Cable • Jonathan Barlar The AI-Infused Assessment Playbook: A 360° Workshop on Designing Compliant, Student-Approved Assignments Coastal 7Sarah Lewis • Nelson Santos The Devil You Know: Empowering Faculty with Practical AI Pedagogy Know-How Suwannee 3Mariya Gluzman Creating Equitable Education Through AI Tutors and Faculty Tools That Support Learning and Reflection EscambiaMarivi Tejada-Simon Vision and Voice AI Math Tutor EscambiaChristopher Cardenas AI and Belonging: Playful Activities for First-Year Learning Lafayette 3Bridget Lillethorup Path 2: An AI-Centric Course Development Framework Using Custom Bots and Workflow Automation Desoto 2Jessica Clark • Jonathon Isham Building Your AI Agent Assistant: A Hands-On Workshop Using BoodleBox and Jotform Coastal 8Abby Bell From Lesson to Workplace: AI-Cheat-Proof, Career-Ready Assessment Design Coastal 6Lisa Troy • Shweta Homji The Be S.M.A.R.T. with AI Framework: Helping Students Make Better Choices Desoto 5Nikki Buyna

2:30pm EDT

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

3:00pm EDT

Designing the Handoff: Why the Future of Student Persistence Requires AI that Knows When to Stop Suwannee 3Nathan McRae • QuadC AI Assisted Course Design: A Practical Faculty Workflow Guided By Backwards Design Suwannee 2John Schumacher Be a TRAIIL-Blazer! Learn About Our AI Repository Coastal 10Nicole Stahl • Sarah Norris From Policy to Practice: Embedding AI Tools and Agents into Authentic, Assessable Coursework Lafayette 1Rhonna Krouse-Adams (CANCELLED) The Right Tools for the Job: My EdTech Setup for the GenAI Era Lafayette 5Maikel Right 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 “Accountability and AI Use in Student Work: Practical Guidelines for Disclosure, Verification, and Citation” Desoto 1Tom Walker Teaching and Learning Across Disciplines: using customized AI to foster Curiosity, Connections, and Creating Value Desoto 2Wojciech Kossek 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

From AI Uncertainty to Practical Guardrails for Teaching and Learning Desoto 2Veton Krasniqi • Apporto Beyond “Allowed” or “Banned”: Teaching Responsible AI Use Through Transparency, Verification, and Student Ownership Lafayette 1Toby Brooks • Ashley Barrett Bots, Not Slop: How a Custom Bot Helps Students Revise, Reflect, and Improve Suwannee 3Erica Noles What Students Learn With—and Without—AI: A Practical Teaching Framework Lafayette 3Milagros Sanoja Blending Tradition with Technology: AI-Enhanced Teaching Practices Escambia HallwayMelinda McIsaac Scale Academic Success with Responsible AI Desoto 3Heidi Allwood • McGraw Hill What AI-Ready Actually Looks Like: Designing Assignments Where the Process Is the Proof Lafayette 4Andy Toshniwal • Bas Hintemann • Feedback Fruits Why AI Training Isn't Enough: The Hidden Gap Between Faculty Awareness and Institutional Change. Desoto 5Jessica Stansbury Beyond the Prompt: Building a "Course Architect" Agent for Automated Alignment to Pedagogical Standards and Full-Spectrum Curricular Development Desoto 1Muhammad Adeel Gamified AI Patient Simulations to Advance Clinical Reasoning in Undergraduate Genetics Coastal 8Lawrence Tartaglia Beyond Prompts: Building Custom AI Tools for Your Campus Coastal 7Denice Robertson From Case Stories to Patterns: Using AI to Analyse Classroom Interventions Escambia HallwayDavid Kosatka • Markéta Košatková 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 Well-Being as a Lever for AI Fluency: A Professional Learning Community Model for Faculty Professional Development Escambia HallwayJ Kasi Jackson • Zach Kinzler

4:20pm EDT

Accessible by Design: Leveraging AI for Inclusive Education Suwannee 3Rebecca Weber • Lauren Kehoe Moving from Loss to Possibility: A Human-Centered Framework for AI Adoption in Higher Education Suwannee 2Robyn Hammontree • Nico Rose • D2L From Policy to Practice: An Institutional Strategy for Advancing GenAI Fluency Lafayette 4Luciana Arronche • Jeffrey T. Olimpo 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 Developing an AI Toolbox for Your Classroom Lafayette 2Melissa Brooks

5:00pm EDT

Happy Hour Coastal Ballroom

7:00am EDT

Move, Breathe, Begin: A Seated Yoga Reset Desoto 2Charlotte Jones-Roberts

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 Playground: Setting Up a Low-Lift, High-Value PD Session for Faculty Coastal BallroomJesika Brooks AI-Informed, Not AI-Driven: A Framework for Responsible Course Redesign Lafayette 3Whitney Kilgore • Amanda Major • Briana Johnson • iDesign What Happens to Quiet Students When AI Speaks for Them? Voice, Identity, and Inclusion in AI-Mediated Learning EscambiaEunjeong Shin Your AI Compass: A Values-Driven Approach to Teaching & Learning With AI Desoto 4Chad Rohrbacher • Tracy Mendolia, PhD • Tess St. John From Manual to Magical: Using AI to Fast-Track Content Creation in High-Enrollment Courses EscambiaAndi Nelson The AI Thinking Partner: Practical Approaches to Assessment Design Desoto 2Michael Rodriguez Delgado • Janine Diaz-Cotto “But AI Said It Was True”: Teaching Students to Question the Machine Lafayette 5Michelle DeWalt Empowering Student Autonomy with Custom AI Agents and Ethical AI Practices Coastal 10Reima Abobaker

9:20am EDT

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

9:40am EDT

From Abstract to Actionable: A Custom GPT Suite for Outcome Alignment Suwannee 2Kristin Copeland • Ronald Lethcoe How do we navigate students’ perception of AI replacing workers? Lafayette 3John Sherlock Improving Instructor-Student Communication with the Student Generative AI Use Scale Desoto 4Jill Abney Beyond “Is It Right?”: Teaching Students to Evaluate AI Output with Purpose Suwannee 3Victoria Antwi “Is AI Allowed?”: Designing Transparent AI-Integrated Assignments Desoto 1Rebecca Leis 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 AI Alt-Text Helper: Make Course Content Accessible Using LLM’s Lafayette 5Jaydon Krooss

10:20am EDT

A Human-Centered AI Strategy for Faculty Development Lafayette 3Jennifer Rider • Marnie Clay Teaching AI-Enhanced Podcasting Across Disciplines Escambia HallwayChelsy Hooper Using AI to Mimic In-Class Interactions in an Asynchronous Session for Case-Based Learning Desoto 2Kersten T Schroeder Bridging Tradition and Innovation: Faculty Use of BoodleBox to Enhance Teaching and Learning in Health Sciences Lafayette 2Vincent Wiggins Beyond the Answer Engine: Using AI to Support Student Thinking, Not Replace It Desoto 4Diego Alvarado AI-Polling Pedagogy: Using Peer Instruction to Build AI Fluency in STEM Escambia HallwayAlex Ambrose • Yanran Chen AI Fluency for Freshmen: Insights from Teaching a Dedicated Course Online, Hybrid, and In-Person Desoto 5Candyce Nelson AI-Enhanced UDL: Practical, Inclusive Teaching for a Rapidly Changing Classroom Suwannee 2Lyndsey Stratton Fluency ≠ Literacy: Practical Strategies to Scaffold, Not Offload Escambia HallwayRachel Rupprecht, Ph.D. • Heidi Keller • Vanessa Hormann

10:40am EDT

AI-Enhanced Exam Prep for Diverse Learners Coastal BallroomGamze Yilmaz

11:00am EDT

From Traditional to AI-Native: Adapting Curriculum for the BoodleBox AI-Enabled Classroom Coastal 10France Hoang • Boodlebox Conversational voice-based AI agent for skills assessment Lafayette 4Sandro Sanchez AI for Access and Inclusive Learning: Supporting First-Generation, Multilingual, and Neurodivergent Students Suwannee 3Rosita Scerbo Teaching Nursing With GPTs: A Rapid-Fire Tour of Tools That Build Skills, Not Shortcuts Desoto 1Erin Kelley The Theft of our Data & The Great Reframe Coastal BallroomBrittney Schultz How to Build and Test Ethical AI Tutors Lafayette 5Mark Collier AI-Enhanced Assignments with a Spiral Design Desoto 4Aubry Jacques Brain-First AI Use: Balancing AI Assistance and Student Thinking Lafayette 2Marta McCabe

11:30am EDT

Buffet Lunch Exhibit Hall F

1:00pm EDT

Building Bridges, Not Walls: Facilitating Safe Dialogue About AI Across Campus Desoto 1Susan Purrington 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 Guardrails, not gotchas: Ethics and policy in AI Suwannee 2Christian Moriarty

1:40pm EDT

Guiding AI Integration: Leadership Lessons from the Front Lines Coastal 10Peter Shea Designing Equity with AI: Scaffolding, Offloading, and Translation for Students with Learning and Attention Differences Lafayette 5Oksana Hagerty The Alternative Examiner: AI-Assisted Socratic Assessment for Personalized Learning at Scale Coastal BallroomJoy Osipchuk • Matt Vergne • John D. Smith Engaging Today's Students with Tomorrow's Teaching Lafayette 2Dee Bohne 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

2:00pm EDT

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

2:20pm EDT

AI Coding for Everyone: An Introduction to Teaching with Coding Agents Coastal 8Dan Myers Break Your Own Assignments: Stress Testing Your Course Against AI Misuse Coastal 7Mary Ann Hughes Butts • Ayla Koch Designing an AI Chatbot–Agent from Scratch to Teach Personal Branding Escambia HallwayCarlos Valdez An AI Tutorial for Information Literacy Escambia HallwayKelly Diamond • Martin Dunlap AI Hallucinations, Academic Integrity, and Learning-Centered Design Suwannee 3Robert Mott • Mary Myers 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 Enhancing Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes in Genetics with Custom Chapter Chatbots and Character AI: A Controlled Comparison Escambia HallwayMehdi Eslamieh The AI That Refuses to Do Your Homework: Designing Chatbots That Actually Teach Instead of Cheat Lafayette 4Jeffrey Lyons From Prompts to Platforms: Creating Your Own AI Tools That Fit Your Context Lafayette 1Daniel Ruelle

2:40pm EDT

Designing with AI, Not Around It: A One-Day Generative AI-Assisted Course Design Studio Coastal BallroomAdeline "Addy" Tolliver • Constantin Icleanu

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 (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 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 Adventure Option: Transforming STEM Activities with AI, Creativity, and a Dash of Chaos Suwannee 3Ramona Smith • Hannah Bevan TOP: VARK - AI Integration. A practical framework for implementing AI tools use based on Learning Preferences. Desoto 3Jaime Ramos Error as Opportunity: A New Approach to Engaging Learners in Higher Education Coastal 9Ipek Yucelen • Seden Dogan AI, But Make It Pedagogical: Lessons from a Learner-Centered AI Implementation Desoto 1Bob Zimmerli • Victor Calderin Building AI Fluency for Faculty: Practical Classroom Applications Beyond the Hype EscambiaBilly Stone Rethinking Your First Class: Using AI to Enhance Your Syllabi and First-Day Experiences Desoto 4J. D. Thomas Learning Reimagined: Engaging Students Through AI Bots Coastal 6Katie Wheeler • Cynthia Krutsinger The State of Copyright and AI: 2026 Updates Suwannee 2Sarah Norris Toward a Culturally Responsive Critical AI Literacy Pedagogy EscambiaKevin Reagan

4:20pm EDT

Teaching Students to Prompt AI for Understanding: Evidence-Based Strategies from a Calculus Course Desoto 3Jared Campbell • Jooyoung Park Let’s Talk: Rethinking Online Discussion Boards in the Era of Generative AI Suwannee 1Karen Wolak Student Experiences with AI-Supported Tutoring in Undergraduate Math and Biology Desoto 1Virginia Thompson 5 Evidence-Based Principles for Incorporating AI-Powered Assessment in your Classroom Coastal 10John Swope • Curricu

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

Your Students Deserve More Than a Chatbot: How to Improve Learning Outcomes with AI-Powered Instruction Desoto 5Erin Ratliff • Kyron Learning Applying the "4D" AI Fluency Framework to Your Discipline and Practice Coastal 6Rick Dakan Designing Low-Stakes AI Learning for Faculty: Lessons from an AI Test Fest Coastal 7Emmie Mercer • Richard Tillies 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 Your Faculty AI OS: Building a Personal AI for Next-Level Performance Desoto 1Dawn Oetjen • Reid Oetjen • Jean Gordon • Eric Richardson Leveraging AI for Innovation in Neonatal Advanced Practice Education: The BOT Framework Desoto 4Heather Breittholz • Valarie Artigas

9:40am EDT

Just Fold it In: Bite-Size AI Literacy Wherever You Are Lafayette 4Laurie Borchard • Amber Janssen Making Thinking Visible Again: Scaffolding Tool Use in the AI Era Coastal 6Dr. Lindsay Konradt Evaluating the Pedagogical Efficacy of AI Tutoring Chatbots: A Study on High School Student Learning and Engagement EscambiaConnie Tao From ChatGPT to Course-Embedded AI: Using a TA-Like Assistant to Reinforce Learning and Reduce AI Workarounds Desoto 4Dafan Zhang 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 STEM Lab Classes Need AI Too! EscambiaStephen King • Linda King From Reaction to Reflection: Using AI to Rethink Responses to Challenging Classroom Behavior Lafayette 2Markéta Košatková

10:20am EDT

AI Role Playing: Active Learning Comes to Life Desoto 1Lindsay Tate • Juli Ross The "Boss" of the Bot: Empowering Faculty Control through RAG and Socratic Prompting Lafayette 4Peter Bodary

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