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This past week I attended the campus presentation from Sarah Rose Cavanagh. She is a psychology professor and the senior associate director for teaching and learning at the Center for Faculty Excellence at Simmons University. Her research lies at the intersections of emotion, motivation, and learning.

If you missed her presentation, you can read this blog post: Hope in a Time of Monsters: Reflexions to Support Students. 

Students need compassion and challenges to thrive, or in other words compassionate challenge.Offering only compassion or only challenge is not enough to support student learning. We should design learning environments filled with compassion; after that we need to support students take on challenges.

Here is the folder with Cavanagh's slides and other materials.

 Resources:

While in the past year we, as instructors, have focused significant attention on the challenges and disruption introduced in our courses by Large Language Models like ChatGPT, we have given less consideration to the role of audiovisual GenAI tools like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, NotebookLM “podcasts”, and others in media-oriented classes. Such tools are prompting ethical and existential crises across media industries, including journalism, film, television, photography, graphic design, advertising, and more, as AI-supported tools replace or diminish the contribution of human labor and call conventional notions of intellectual property, authorship, authenticity, and truth into question. These same crises play out – or will soon play out  – in media-oriented classes as such tools become more prevalent and accessible for everyday use. This panel will share findings and observations about how these tools can introduce new questions about authorship and academic integrity while also offering approaches to leverage these tools constructively and ethically. In addition, the panel will discuss the impact such tools are having on media industries and how we can best prepare students to enter these career paths in this rapidly changing AI-infused landscape. 

* Tuesday April 1st at 10am (Zoom)

This panel was created as part of the GenAI 7-Week Faculty Development Program from the Hub for Teaching and Learning Resources 

Panelists:

The Hub invites you to join conversations about GenAI. These gatherings are an opportunity to ask questions, discuss tasks from the self-paced Canvas course, and connect with colleagues.

If you want to know more about the implications of GenAI for teaching and learning, you have access to the self-paced modules.

Students in Georgina Hickey's women's history capstone course are planning a panel discussion with UMD faculty.  They've asked faculty from a variety of fields to come share their experiences in academia, reflect on the contributions of women in their fields, and contemplate how universities could better recognize women.

The fields represented will be African and African American Studies, History, Social Work, Psychology, and Education.  

* Tuesday March 25th 12:30-1:30pm

Location: CB 1030

We are happy to meet with you for any teaching concerns, large or small, in any modality, whether it's a one-off meeting or longer-term planning. For issues arising in your classes, PBL, GenAI, or anything else, we're here to help!

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