What is Generative AI and What Should We Know About Bias?
These tools were trained on us, by us, to sound like us and what are we if not imperfect, biased creatures? Learn about how these tools work and reflect our own biases back on us and what we can start doing to mitigate the harm.
Level: Beginner
Cost: Free!
Tags: Education, Equity, Inclusion, Beginner, Business, Diversity, LLM, Personal, Prompting
- Facilitator: Jon Fila
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- Facilitator: Jon Fila
Understanding the Prompter/Tool Relationship
Unpack the pivotal role we play in shaping AI interactions to generate more detailed and thorough responses.
Objectives
- To encourage personal reflection on how one's approach to communication changes based on the audience and context, and apply this understanding to prompting AI.
- To develop skills in crafting prompts that yield high-quality, specific responses useful for content development or professional communication.
- To deepen understanding of how AI interprets prompts and explore creative ways to elicit desired responses.
- To understand and apply role-playing techniques to improve AI interactions.
Level: Beginner
Cost: $25 $10
Tags: Education, Beginner, Business, LLM, Personal, Prompting
- Facilitator: Jon Fila
Redirecting AI for Equity and Inclusion
Learn strategies to elicit AI responses that support diverse student needs and backgrounds, making every learner feel empowered.
Objectives
Participants will:
- Understand and evaluate default AI responses that contain implicit bias.
- Develop specific strategies for eliciting inclusive AI responses that are more inclusive and representative of diverse perspectives.
- Equip participants to include prompts that demand AI draw from a wide range of cultural, racial, gender, and ability perspectives.
- Identify and mitigate implicit bias in AI interactions.
Participants will engage in activities that involve rewriting prompts to avoid stereotypical responses, evaluating the inclusiveness of AI-generated content, and assessing its impact on engagement and learning.
Level: Beginner
Cost: $25 $10
Tags: Accessibility, Beginner, Business, Diversity, Education, Equity, Inclusion, LLM, Personal, Prompting
- Facilitator: Jon Fila
Emotional Prompting Techniques
Interested in developing prompts that have the potential to improve LLM performance up to 115%?! Harness the power of emotional intelligence to deepen connections and improve AI-generated content relevance, better responses with greater context and attention to detail.
Objectives
Participants will:
- Learn the application of emotional prompts in AI interactions.
- Evaluate emotional prompt efficiency.
- Implement emotion-enhanced communication strategies.
- Explore the impact of emotional stimuli on AI performance.
Level: Beginner
Cost: $25 $10
Tags: Beginner, Business, Education, LLM, Personal, Prompting
- Facilitator: Jon Fila
Audience and Setting Awareness
Tailor your AI interactions to meet the specific needs of your educational community, ensuring relevance and engagement.
Objectives
Participants will:
- Critically assess AI-generated content for its relevance and suitability to the intended audience.
- Foster an understanding of how to integrate principles of inclusivity and cultural responsiveness in AI-generated materials.
- Equip participants with the skills to describe key demographic, cultural, and psychographic characteristics of their audience in LLM prompts, enhancing the ability to tailor AI interactions that resonate with specific audience needs.
Level: Beginner
Cost: $25 $10
Tags: Accessibility, Beginner, Business, Education, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, LLM, Personal, Prompting
- Facilitator: Jon Fila
Since AI is here to stay, how do we provide supportive learner feedback in supportive ways that do not turn contentious when students are using AI to do their work? Explore innovative ways to integrate LLMs into your curriculum planning, assessment strategies and learner feedback in ways that encourage more appropriate uses of AI.
Objectives
Participants will:
- Implement communication techniques that address AI usage in student work while maintaining a supportive and constructive dialogue.
- Evaluate and integrate AI-detection methods ethically and effectively into the grading process, ensuring transparency and fairness.
- Develop and implement rubrics that effectively assess student work for originality and depth of thought, discouraging over-reliance on AI.
- Use AI tools responsibly to enhance instructional strategies, such as generating practice quiz questions and analyzing common patterns in student work, without compromising academic integrity.
This one is specifically for educators.
Level: Intermediate
Cost: $25 $10
Tags: Assessment, Curriculum, Education, Feedback, Intermediate
- Facilitator: Jon Fila
Supporting Learners with AI
Empowers educators to use AI as a supportive assistant, enhancing personalized learning paths and feedback for all students. What does appropriate use look like and how should we think about providing students feedback when making submissions that utilize AI?
Objectives
Participants will:
- Understand how AI can be used to supplement instructional strategies, not replace them, and recognize the limits of AI in understanding complex human behaviors and emotions.
- Explore how generative AI (in particular, Large Language Models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) can assist in creating personalized learning experiences and providing nuanced feedback.
- Use AI to analyze student work for common misunderstandings and tailoring feedback to address specific educational needs.
- Explore how AI can be used to promote equity in the classroom
Empower you to use AI thoughtfully and effectively, enhancing your ability to support learners in a personalized and responsive manner.
Level: Intermediate
Cost: $25 $10
Tags: Accessibility, Assessment, Curriculum, Diversity, Education, Equity, Feedback, Inclusion, Intermediate, LLM, Prompting
- Facilitator: Jon Fila
AI As Your Educational Assistant
Streamline administrative tasks and foster a culture of efficiency and innovation within your educational institution. This module is geared toward teachers.
Objectives
Participants will:
- Develop strategies to effectively integrate AI assistants into daily teaching workflows and lesson planning.
- Explore methods for using AI to personalize student learning experiences and provide targeted feedback.
- Analyze the potential impact of AI on assessment practices and data-driven decision making in education.
Level: Intermediate
Cost: $25 $10
Tags: Assessment, Curriculum, Education, Feedback, Intermediate, LLM, Prompting
- Facilitator: Jon Fila
OER & LLM: The Perfect Couple
There are millions of Open Educational Resources (OER) available for educators to use in their classrooms. However, many resources lack depth, accessibility, or fail to meet the diverse needs of students. This module will demonstrate how to use Large Language Models (LLM) like AI to modify and supplement existing OER, making them more robust, inclusive, and supportive for all learners. You’ll learn strategies to improve the quality of OER, enhance accessibility, and integrate common accommodations for students with 504 plans and IEPs. Additionally, we’ll explore how AI can help address equity, inclusion, and representation in OER, bringing culturally responsive teaching to the forefront of your resources.
Objectives
- Use AI tools for improving accessibility, quality, and inclusivity.
- Modify OER to incorporate accommodations and modifications that support students on 504 plans and IEPs.
- To explore how AI can be leveraged to address issues of equity, inclusion, and representation in educational materials, supporting culturally responsive curriculum development.
- To gain practical experience in using AI to generate supplemental materials, such as alternative reading formats, assessment tools, and differentiated instructional supports.
Level: Intermediate
Cost: $25 $10
Tags: Curriculum, Education, LLM, Prompting
- Facilitator: Jon Fila
Curriculum Standards Alignment Using LLMs
Doing standards alignment work with curriculum is tedious, boring, painstaking work that can drastically be improved by using specific strategies using AI. You can free up massive amounts of time and gain insights about your course materials if you let AI do some of the busy work for you!
Objectives
Participants will:
- Prepare curriculum documents for effective AI-assisted analysis
- Apply a seven-step process for aligning curriculum to academic standards using multiple LLMs
- Use cross-verification techniques to improve alignment accuracy
- Identify gaps in curriculum coverage through AI-assisted analysis
- Critically evaluate AI-generated alignments using professional judgment
This process works with any standards framework: state academic standards, Common Core, ISTE Standards for Students, National Standards for Quality Online Courses, and more.
This module focuses specifically on standards alignment. For creating culturally relevant and inclusive learning experiences, see our other modules on prompting for equity and inclusion.
Level: Intermediate
Cost: $25 $10
Tags: Assessment, Curriculum, Education, LLM, Prompting
- Facilitator: Jon Fila
Curriculum and Assessment Design
Explore innovative ways to integrate LLMs into your curriculum planning and assessment strategies.
This one is specifically for educators.
- Facilitator: Jon Fila
Messaging About AI
Craft compelling narratives around AI adoption to encourage positive engagement among educators, students, and stakeholders. People in different parts of their AI journey will need to hear different messages on their way to adoption.
- Facilitator: Jon Fila