With the November release of ChatGPT the next wave of AI responses has made it to the mainstream. Now, in addition to finding answer keys and working groups in online spaces, students can now generate their own answers to questions with the click of a button. And this is only the beginning.

This a community of inquiry to consider different approaches to dealing with web-based tools that impact our classrooms. Whether those tools are AI (like ChatGPT), homework sharing sites (like Chegg) or other software based tools that are designed to support students in their work, we need to explore strategies that move towards a healthier classroom and away from surveillance and punishment. This group meets to discuss new research, debate new strategies and release commentary from those discussions on a regular basis.

This a community of inquiry to consider different approaches to dealing with web-based tools that impact our classrooms. Whether those tools are AI (like ChatGPT), homework sharing sites (like Chegg) or other software based tools that are designed to support students in their work, we need to explore strategies that move towards a healthier classroom and away from surveillance and punishment. This group meets to discuss new research, debate new strategies and release commentary from those discussions on a regular basis.

This session looks back on the lessons learned in the first year+ of dealing with GenAI in the classroom. Discussions about it's impact on student learning, on concepts of plagiarism, and on course design will be discussed.

We are 18 months into GenAI tools like ChatGPT impacting our learning and our classrooms. Faculty have found interesting ways to use GenAI to do algorithmic tasks and we've all found different ways that students are using in our classes - some better than others. What practices are emerging? What new ways of thinking about our classrooms are out there? How have some of our initial attempts worked?

A monthly meeting dedicated to discussing the ongoing work on adapting to a world with Generative AI.

This session will address the need to have a serious discussion with students about GenAI usage in the classroom. Approaches to GenAI will differ vastly by faculty member and by discipline, but its presence in our classrooms cannot be ignored. This session will discuss approaches that will include helping students think ethically about GenAI usage and how to focus on what we really need them to learn.

A monthly meeting dedicated to discussing the ongoing work on adapting to a world with Generative AI.

The popularization of Generative AI tools will lead to at least some change in the university as we know it. Some experts are suggesting that we need to prepare students for an AI world and others are insisting that it's mostly hype. Is it going to be a transformational change or will GenAI just be one more tool in the toolbox? Are schools mostly trying to ban it or are they embracing it? This session will look at how this conversation is progressing both here in Canada and internationally.

A monthly meeting dedicated to discussing the ongoing work on adapting to a world with Generative AI.

This session will address the need to have a serious discussion with students about GenAI usage in the classroom. Approaches to GenAI will differ vastly by faculty member and by discipline, but its presence in our classrooms cannot be ignored. This session will discuss approaches that will include helping students think ethically about GenAI usage and how to focus on what we really need them to learn.

Generative AI is catalyzing significant changes across society. One important emerging area of impact is the ability for AI to improve accessibility for people with a wide range of disabilities. AI tools can provide automatic captions and language translation, language support, speech recognition, assisted speech, automated sign language, lip reading, describe images, facial recognition for technology control, mobility support, the ability to summarise and communicate information in different ways, and a wide range of learning aids. This session will discuss the rapidly developing and potentially life-changing capabilities of AI as an assistive technology, particularly for students in higher education.

This session will address the need to have a serious discussion with students about GenAI usage in the classroom. Approaches to GenAI will differ vastly by faculty member and by discipline, but its presence in our classrooms cannot be ignored. This session will discuss approaches that will include helping students think ethically about GenAI usage and how to focus on what we really need them to learn.