Designing Learning in a World of AI, Three ways faculty can guide inquiry, thinking, and assessment

In the “real world,” problems rarely arrive fully laid out. Students need to identify what is missing, determine what matters, ask good questions, and use their judgment. At the same time, AI can increasingly perform many of the tasks we have traditionally used to teach or assess those skills. Join Jeremiah Contreras to explore three ways faculty can design learning in this environment: using AI to encourage inquiry and curiosity, guiding students through the process of thinking with simulations and structured AI interactions, and designing assessments that surface understanding rather than simply evaluate a final answer. The session will focus less on particular AI tools and more on practical approaches faculty can adapt to their own disciplines, including circumstances where limiting AI may be important to the learning process. Leave this session with practical examples and questions you can use to rethink how students inquire, work through problems, and demonstrate understanding in...