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Workshop: Beyond the Syllabus – Talking with Students About AI

Register here | Facilitator: Breana Bayraktar

Formerly titled “Workshop: Communicating With Students About Ethical AI Use”

This workshop focuses on how to talk with students about AI use in ways that build trust rather than suspicion, respond to violations without eroding relationships, and cultivate a classroom culture where integrity is a shared value. Through discussion, role-play scenarios, and practical strategies, you’ll leave with language and approaches you can use from day one. This workshop is part of the Teaching with AI Credential.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: Crafting an AI Policy That Reflects Your Values

Register here | Facilitator: Breana Bayraktar

Formerly titled “Workshop: Communicating With Students About Ethical AI Use”

Not sure whether to ban AI, embrace it, or something in between? This hands-on session will help you move from uncertainty to clarity. Through guided frameworks, discipline-specific examples, and individual drafting time, you’ll leave with a coherent, nuanced AI policy tailored to your courses. This workshop is part of the Teaching with AI Credential.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: Crafting an AI Policy That Reflects Your Values

Register here | Facilitator: Breana Bayraktar

Formerly titled “Workshop: Communicating With Students About Ethical AI Use”

Not sure whether to ban artificial intelligence, embrace it, or something in between? This hands-on session will help you move from uncertainty to clarity. Through guided frameworks, discipline-specific examples, and individual drafting time, you’ll leave with a coherent, nuanced AI policy tailored to your courses. This workshop is part of the Teaching with AI Credential.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: Beyond the Syllabus – Talking with Students About AI

Register here | Facilitator: Breana Bayraktar

Formerly titled “Workshop: Communicating With Students About Ethical AI Use”

This workshop focuses on how to talk with students about artificial intelligence use in ways that build trust rather than suspicion, respond to violations without eroding relationships, and cultivate a classroom culture where integrity is a shared value. Through discussion, role-play scenarios, and practical strategies, you’ll leave with language and approaches you can use from day one. This workshop is part of the Teaching with AI Credential.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: (Re)Designing Syllabi for Inclusive Classrooms that Support Learners & Instructors

Register here | Facilitator: Shelley Reid

Are you ready to align your current and future courses with university commitments to inclusive teaching? In this workshop, we will work to advance our understanding of inclusive course design and how to improve syllabi, assignments, and activities to be more inclusive for everyone in the space (including instructors!). During the session, we will have discussion time to focus on connecting these ideas with your course and your discipline. At the end of the workshop, participants will leave with a greater understanding of the potential considerations and options for (re)designing inclusive courses from the foundations to the rafters. This workshop is part of the AIEM-Teach four-part credential series for Mason faculty to engage in broadly inclusive education across all disciplines.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: How to Handle Difficult Classroom Discussions and Situations in the Moment

Register here | Facilitator: Shelley Reid

Are you prepared to handle difficult discussions and charged situations in the classroom in the moment? Do you sometimes think of things later that you wish you would have said or done? In this workshop, we will prepare how to handle important and potentially tense classroom conversations in the moment. Our focus will be on how to support everyone in the classroom – including yourself – during tense times. We will explore and discuss several teaching approaches. This workshop is applicable to instructors across all disciplines for facilitating important conversations, whether or not their course topics include socially pressing issues (like race, gender, religion, politics). Please note, this is the second in a two-part series on difficult conversations. However, participants are welcome and encouraged to attend this session even if they were not able to attend Part One. This workshop is also part of the AIEM-Teach four-part credential series for Mason faculty to engage in broadly inclusive education across all disciplines.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: Fostering Engagement and Belonging with Inclusive Classroom Techniques

Canceled Register here | Facilitator: Shelley Reid

Are you ready to enhance inclusive teaching throughout your instructional spaces? Would you like to build tangible plans for your classes and hear how other faculty support their students? This is where that journey begins. In this workshop, we will examine some of the definitions and terms often found in conversations about creating more inclusive classrooms. We will work together to advance our individual abilities in broadly inclusive teaching and learning to support all students. At the end of the workshop, we will have developed familiarity with concepts and terminology, explored deliberately inclusive classroom activities, and set one or two manageable goals for our classes. This workshop is part of the AIEM-Teach credential.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: Preparing Your Course and Yourself for Difficult Classroom Discussions & Situations

Register here | Facilitator: Shelley Reid

Do you have strategies to prepare yourself and your students to handle difficult conversations? This could be when you are having difficult conversations about topics like race, sexuality, religion, politics, or similar. These situations also could result from a discussion comment that makes a student or group uncomfortable. In this workshop, we will discuss how to design (or redesign) your course and prepare yourself to facilitate important or “hot topic” conversations in the classroom. This workshop is applicable to instructors across all disciplines for facilitating important conversations, whether or not their course topics include socially pressing issues. This workshop is part of the AIEM-Teach four-part credential series for Mason faculty to engage in broadly inclusive education across all disciplines.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: Artificial Intelligence Tools and…Inclusive Teaching?

Register here | Facilitator: Laina Lockett

Formerly called “ChatGPT, AI Text Generator Tools, and…Inclusive Teaching?”

Access to artificial intelligence (AI) text generators has upended education – and many other sectors – as much or more than past technology advancements and innovations. Join us in this workshop as we discuss how we continue teaching with impact and to support all students in this new reality. We explore instructional approaches, considerations, and methods to help us teach with less stress and more strategy. This workshop is part of the Teaching with AI credential Level 1 series.

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.

Workshop: Artificial Intelligence Tools and…Inclusive Teaching?

Register here | Facilitator: Rachel Yoho

Formerly called “ChatGPT, AI Text Generator Tools, and…Inclusive Teaching?”

Access to artificial intelligence (AI) text generators has upended education – and many other sectors – as much or more than past technology advancements and innovations. Join us in this workshop as we discuss how we continue teaching with impact and to support all students in this new reality. We explore instructional approaches, considerations, and methods to help us teach with less stress and more strategy. This workshop is part of the Teaching with AI credential Level 1 series and the AIEM-Teach credential. 

*Adding to your calendar will not register you for the event; please register using the link above.