Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning
1000 E. University, Dept. 3334
Coe Library 510
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307)766-4847
Email: ellbogenctl@uwyo.edu
These academies feature UW educators and ECTL educational developers sharing innovative
teaching strategies that significantly impact student learning. Presentations may
include strategies that engage with digital communication, inclusive pedagogy, critical thinking, community service, and
assessing student learning.
Attendees are welcome to attend for the entire academy, sporadically as schedules
allow, or request video recordings of workshop sessions.
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In this session, Doug will describe and illustrate three assignments—from multiple disciplines—that engage students with various AI platforms and capacities while also building students' critical awareness of these technologies. Doug brings expertise as a Digital Rhetorics scholar, a director of Writing and Rhetoric Programs at GMU, a co-editor of a recent AI-focused issue of Computers and Composition, and the author of a chapter in TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies about an AI activity in his technical communication course.
In this session, Dale will share his experience incorporating ChatGPT into a calculus-based introductory physics course for science and engineering majors. The session will focus on the unique approach taken by the presenter, where students are required to use ChatGPT to generate the introductory portion of their lab reports and, more importantly, to critically evaluate and critique the AI-generated writing. The presenter will discuss the surprising insights and takeaways reported by students, highlighting the potential benefits and challenges.
Embark on a journey through the frontier of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in teaching and learning in a workshop exploring the current influence of generative AI tools. This interactive session begins with learning practical tips for integrating generative AI and collaborating with peers to brainstorm strategies and imagine the future direction of AI in teaching and learning. Bring your laptop to play hands-on with sample tools in the second half of this workshop. Participants will discover example projects and practical strategies for implementing AI tools effectively in a variety of disciplines. Iterating ideas for both text and image generation, participants can create their own AI-driven learning activities specific to their teaching practice. Collaboration and sharing will be encouraged throughout the session.
Across college campuses, teachers have long valued writing as a way to deepen students’ learning as well as to evaluate students’ knowledge. With the advent of readily available generative AI, how should faculty revise their definition of “writing” and their approaches to assigning writing? At this keynote, AI and Digital Rhetorics scholar Doug Eyman argues that writing continues to deserve a central place in post-secondary curricula—but that we must be willing to revise some common assumptions about what writing is and does.
Keynote Speaker:
Doug Eyman is Director of Writing and Rhetoric Programs at GMU. He teaches courses
in digital rhetoric, technical and scientific communication, web authoring, new media,
and professional writing. His current research interests include the affordances and
constraints of composing with AI/LLMs, new media scholarship, teaching in digital
environments, and video games as sites of composition. With Dr. Nupoor Ranade,he recently
co-edited a special "Composing with Generative AI" issue of Computers and Composition
and is currently working on an edited collection about AI in Writing Studies.
Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning
1000 E. University, Dept. 3334
Coe Library 510
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307)766-4847
Email: ellbogenctl@uwyo.edu