This event is part of CHESS AI Week: Exploring Artificial Intelligence Across the Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences 

Featuring Kefaya Diab, Ph.D. , Wilfredo Flores, Ph.D.; and Stephanie Lewis

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In this interactive presentation, Kefaya Diab, Ph.D. , Wilfredo Flores, Ph.D. and Stephanie Lewis facilitate a conversation among faculty across the curriculum at Charlotte using perspectives within writing studies and digital studies and composition scholarship. By providing an overview of stances related to AI grounded in scholarship and historical developments surrounding Generative AI (GenAI), we aim to facilitate a conversation useful for those unsure of how to frame or position GenAI in their classrooms. They offer the notion that educators might teach about GenAI in education as a first step toward facilitating a conversation between educators who may have varying beliefs, approaches, and concerns.

First, they offer an overview about GenAI, including its history and development. They then review scholarly talking points based on the latest writing studies, digital studies, and learning theories and pedagogies—and explain the foundational theories that underpin pedagogies in undergraduate, upper- and lower-level rhetoric, writing, and digital composing courses at Charlotte. Finally, they present an approach that teaches about, rather than with generative AI, to map the potential harm from using GenAI in higher education and to the many extramural communities.

Tuesday, October 21; 4 to 5 p.m., Mebane Hall, Room 010

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5:05 - 5:20 p.m. (between presentations)

AI Test Kitchen: AI for Critical Reading and Synthesis (NotebookLM)

Offered by the UNC Charlotte Center for Teaching and Learning: Jordan Register, Ph.D., Instructional Designer/Technologist and Rebecca Burry, Ed.D., Instructional Designer/Technologist, Center for Teaching and Learning

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