DOLCE talks on AI Strategies and Relational Engagement
Dear Faculty Colleagues,
Please register now to join us Friday, November 6th at noon for our November DOLCE presentations and discussion. If you are unable to join us live on Zoom, please visit The Wheel in the subsequent week to watch the recording.
Our first speaker on November 6th will be Brian Bailey, Associate Professor from the Department of Plant Sciences. The title of his talk is “Ban It, Embrace It, or Split the Difference?: Lessons from incorporating AI in an undergraduate computer skills class.”
According to Professor Bailey, “The widespread availability of AI tools has had a disruptive impact on our lab-based computer skills course, which has been taught at UC Davis for several decades. Because the course covers beginner- to intermediate-level skills, modern AI tools can complete the majority of traditional assignments with no human assistance. This presentation will discuss the various approaches we have explored for adapting the class in the age of AI, including enforcing an outright ban, encouraging AI use while still facilitating learning, and providing different ways in which students can choose to use AI or more traditional approaches based on their personal preferences.”
Our second speaker will be Felicitas Hartung, Associate Director of Digital Scholarship at the Center for Educational Effectiveness. The title of her talk is “From Collaboration to Relational Engagement in Human-Authentic Learning.”
As AI makes it easier to produce plausible responses independently, instructors face a design question: how can classroom interactions and relationships make learning authentic and meaningful? In this talk, Dr. Felicitas Hartung introduces ARC, a framework built on Affective, Relational, and Cognitive engagement, and shows how faculty can redesign group work so that students sharpen their ideas against one another’s. Attendees will leave with a plan to rebuild one of their own activities around that exchange.
You might have seen the recent articles in the press about the UC Berkeley Math professor and Fields Medalist who “sees no point” in continuing to grade homework in the AI era. I look forward to learning more about how our UC Davis faculty are facing such challenges.
Please join us for the November 6 noon DOLCE (via Zoom) and the conversations that follow. Feel free to bring your lunch and leave your cameras off.
Dr. Andy Jones
Academic Director, Academic Technology Services
Editor in Chief, The Wheel
University of California, Davis
DOLCE on AI Strategies and Relational Engagement
Friday, November 6th at Noon via Zoom
Register now!
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