AI Amplified: Showcase Spotlights
Exploring Generative AI in Teaching and Learning
AI Amplified: Showcase Spotlights explores innovative applications of generative AI in teaching and learning. Each session features educators pioneering thoughtful, pedagogically-grounded approaches to AI integration in their classrooms.
September Spotlight: LLMs in English Departments: Teaching Rhetoric as AI Literacy
Monday, September 21 | 2:00 – 3:00 PM ET
Presenter: Dr. Tanya Olson, Lecturer, Department of English, UMBC
About the Session: This session reframes interactions with generative AI as a rhetorical act within language-driven systems. In UMBC's ENGL 211, students apply audience, purpose, tone, and revision principles to AI interactions, learning to treat models as thinking partners rather than text generators. Participants will examine course-based assignments that position AI as a process-oriented tool, helping students critically shape and evaluate AI output across disciplines.
October Spotlight: AI as a Design Thinking Partner
Monday, October 19 | 2:00 – 3:00 PM ET
Presenter: Dr. Andrew Mangle, Associate Professor, Management Information Systems, Bowie State University
About the Session: Students often miss opportunities for deeper inquiry during interviews. This session explores a course-specific AI tool that provides structured feedback on student interviews, highlighting assumptions and missed follow-ups. Participants will learn how AI can function as a feedback partner to strengthen empathy, listening, and reflective practice across project-based courses.
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November Spotlight: [Title TBD]
Monday, November 16 | 2:00 – 3:00 PM ET
Presenter: [Speaker TBD]
About the Session: Details for our November spotlight are being finalized. Check back soon for more information on how our USM faculty are innovating with Gen AI.
[Link: Registration Opening Soon]
