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Professional Development Day
Artificial Intelligence:
Human Learning in the Age of AI
Professional Development Day
Fall 2025
This interdisciplinary symposium invited faculty, staff, and educational leaders to critically and collaboratively explore how artificial intelligence is shaping, challenging, and reimagining human learning. With a blend of keynote talks, thematic sessions, and collaborative workshops, participants engaged with ethical, philosophical, and practical dimensions of AI in education.
More resources and videos to come.
Embracing AI as Essential Learning: Preparing Students for Life Beyond College
Generative AI tools have had an astonishingly quick impact on the ways we learn, work, think, and create. While higher education’s initial response was to develop strategies to diminish AI’s influence in the classroom, it is now clear that AI competencies and literacies must be embraced as essential learning for most colleges and universities. These responses and realities create a challenging tension that higher education must work to resolve.
Learning with Computer Agents in the Era of Generative AI
Dr. Art Graesser, University of Memphis, presentation on the use of Generative AI in the development of learning and assessment applications with conversational agents, as well as current ongoing projects that explore how Gen-AI can enhance conversation-based learning.
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| LIB 121 Lab | Smarter Grants: Using AI to Elevate Your Proposals This interactive session explores the use of artificial intelligence tools —such as ChatGPT and other large language models — in the grant writing process. | Facilitator: Erika Wright |
| LIB 317 Glass Classroom | ITS: Trustworthy AI on Campus What it means to build and use trustworthy AI in higher education, focusing on transparency, fairness, and security in the handling of academic and institutional data. | Facilitator: Tom Lukins |
| SH 108 | Understanding AI Through Student Voices Students at Cal Poly Humboldt share how AI is impacting their learning, ethics, and expectations in the classroom. | Student Panel: Matthew Camacho, CTL Facilitators: |
| SH 109 | CTL: The Student Learning Experience & AI This session will showcase customizable AI education materials embedded within the CTL's Canvas course, Learning 101. Students may take the course independently or faculty can embed content within their courses to help promote AI literacy and ethical use. | Facilitator: Sue Armitage |
| SH 115 | Being in Relationship with AI | Facilitator: |
| SH 118 Lab | ITS: Introduction to AI Tools and Prompt Engineering Get better answers from ChatGPT by asking better questions. | Facilitator: |
| SH 120 | When Outsourcing Writing is Outsourcing Learning: Critical Questions for Writing Across the Curriculum in the Age of AI In this session, faculty will critically examine the ways that writing functions in their discipline and how GenAI may disrupt or undermine students’ learning, their development as writers, and ultimately their ability to embody a disciplinary identity. | Facilitators: Jessica Citti, Nicolette Amann |
| KBR SAC 225 | Open Discussion Session |
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| LIB 121 Lab | AI and Accessibility in Higher Education: Promise, Pitfalls, and Possibility We will explore how artificial intelligence can both support and undermine accessibility in higher education, offering strategies for inclusive and ethical use in teaching and learning. | Facilitator: Jeanne Wielgus |
| LIB 209 Fishbowl | Learning with Computer Agents in the Era of Generative AI Dr. Art Graesser, University of Memphis, will present the use of Generative AI in the development of learning and assessment applications with conversational agents, as well as current ongoing projects that explore how Gen-AI can enhance conversation-based learning. | Facilitators: Dr. Art Graesser, Shi Feng |
| LIB 317 Glass Classroom | AI at Work: Real Talk from Staff Using AI Every Day Discover how staff are using ChatGPT and other AI tools to work smarter, with real examples, helpful resources, and space to explore your own questions and ideas. | Facilitators: Kathy Hudson, Steven Margell |
| SH 108 | AI and our Students: Can We Use AI to Help Us Narrow the Opportunity Gap? | Facilitator: |
| SH 109 | Reimagining Writing Assignment Design: Building AI-Resistant, Community-Connected, and Future-Oriented Student Learning This session provides collaborative and conversational space for faculty to consider and crowdsource dispositional and cognitive frameworks that support students' writing and critical thinking development — about, resistant to, and/or in partnership with generative AI. | Facilitator: |
| SH 117 | What Does Using (or Not) AI Mean in Our Classroom? Getting on the same page — building syllabus templates & student early semester surveys | Facilitators: Enoch Hale Kim Vincent-Layton |
| SH 118 Lab | ITS: Creating Custom GPTs | Facilitator: |
| KBR SAC 225 | Open Discussion Session |
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| Lunch & Is It AI? Game |