Discover how GenAI enhances learning and teaching through classroom cases, gain insights from our keynote speaker, and engage in a panel discussion with faculty and students from NYU Shanghai, Duke Kunshan and other colleagues. Explore the opportunities, challenges, and collaborative paths to integrating GenAI in classrooms.
RSVP by Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
For a comprehensive program, please visit the Program’s website
Join us for City as Classroom, a gathering for experiential learning educators hosted by NYU Shanghai’s Program on Creativity + Innovation.
Description:
From design studio tours to a community dinner at a former toy factory, come meet creative educators like yourself as we engage in conversation on pedagogical approaches and emerging theories on experiential learning that integrate the city both as ‘space’ and ‘subject’.
Program:
13:00 - 13:30 | Registration
13:30 - 14:30 | Talks
- Welcome from Vice Chancellor
- From “Study of” to “Study With”
- Going Behind the Scenes
- Bridging Cultures through Language
- Perspective from the Learner
- Q&A
14:30 - 15:00 | Tea Break
15:00 - 15:45 | Workshops
- Designing Immersive Learning Experiences
- Developing Experiential Learning Outcomes
- Developing an Experiential Mindset
16:00 - 18:00 | City Experiences
- Studio Tour: IDEO Global Design & Innovation Consultancy
- Studio Tour: Bottledream Sustainability Lab
- Urban Walk: Sketching along Xinhua Lu
18:00 - 19:00 | Community Dinner
- Wrap the day swapping stories over a delicious Taiwanese meal in an old toy factory and design alley [Optional, 150rmb co-pay]
RSVP HERE (Registration required)
The Risks of GenAI for Student Skills
Wednesday, March 6
12:45 PM - 1:50 PM
Room E403
Lunch will be provided to registered participants only.
Please register HERE by 12:00pm, Tuesday, March 5, 2024.
This session explores the risks associated with students' reliance on GenAI tools with respect to fundamental learning skills. In this session ARC fellows and learning assistants will share their observations about the changes in student requests in the face of GenAI by presenting several case studies. We welcome all faculty interested in understanding the nuanced effects of ChatGPT and similar tools on student learning.
Event Outline
Introduction: Student Use of GenAI and Risks to Skills: A Case Based on Focused Interviews and First-Year Writing Test
- Presented by Evgeniya Efremova, Director Center for Teaching & Learning;
Presentation: GenAI and Tutoring: Summary and Reflections from ARC Fellows and LAs Experiences
- Presented by Kan Ren Jie, ARC Coordinator and Senior Global Writing and Speaking Fellow; Scout Meredith Best, Global Writing and Speaking Fellow; Ruby Foxall, Global Writing and Speaking Fellow, and ARC Learning Assistants;
Faculty Dialogue: Facilitated by Marcos L. Martinez, Coordinator for Academic Resources Center, Writing Program; Clinical Associate Professor, Writing Program;
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Michael Yuen and Evgeniya Efremova at shanghai.ctl@nyu.edu
Speaker: Kelly Donovan
Lecturer of English for Academic Purpose, Pedagogy and Innovation Fellow at the Center for Teaching and Learning
Are you grading fairly? Do your students argue for points on each assignment? Come join our interactive workshop to explore transparent grading practices and how to take advantage of the best rubric to fit your teaching goals and classroom tasks. The workshop will share best particles for using rubrics in a fair and equitable manner that supports student learning and motivation.
This workshop precedes the "Utilizing GenAI for Rubrics & Feedback" session scheduled for March 27, 2024. We highly recommend attending these sessions sequentially for a comprehensive understanding.
Complete the sign-up process via the link
Speakers to be announced soon
Tired of students fixating on grades rather than learning? How can we shift from external motivation to a genuine passion for knowledge? Discover alternative assessment methods to enhance engagement, promote content mastery, and cultivate growth.
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Speaker: Evgeniya Efremova
Director, Center for Teaching and Learning
In this session, you will experiment with speech recognition and video-generation tools that can be used to support teaching. Imagine recording or animating your lecture and then utilizing GenAI to summarize the content, create revision slides and tasks, or even blend it with another lecture. Following our hands-on exploration of these tools, we will engage in an ethical debate regarding the implications of their use. The session will provide concrete examples of how these tasks can be employed in the classroom to foster critical discussions among students about the ethics of GenAI. This workshop is open to faculty from all disciplines; no prior experience with GenAI is necessary.
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Speaker: Evgeniya Efremova
Director, Center for Teaching and Learning
Building on the insights from Kelly Donovan's session on Assessing with Rubrics this workshop invites you to delve into the practicalities of creating clear and effective assessment rubrics with the help of ChatGPT. This session requires no prior experience with GenAI tools. Participants will learn how to harness ChatGPT to draft, refine, and implement transparent grading rubrics.
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Speaker: Yanyue Yuan
Assistant Arts Professor, Interactive Media and Business
This hands-on session is designed specifically for faculty members across all disciplines interested in learning about and integrating GenAI tools into their course content. No previous experience with AI needed. This session is perfect for beginners and encourages you to explore alongside your colleagues how these tools work, showcase practical use cases, and provide insights on how to creatively apply them to your teaching practice.
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Passive to Interactive: How to Transform Course Activities
Presented by Emily Tsiang, Associate Arts Professor of IMB
Friday, Jan 27 @ 3:00-4:30pm | E405
This workshop will explore opportunities to take course content typically delivered in a passive lecture format toward more engaging and interactive teaching methods to enhance student engagement, comprehension, and retention.
Please RSVP here. If you are a member of the Experiential Learning Lab Fellowship cohort, you do not need to sign up.
This workshop is part of the Experiential Learning Lab Fellowship Program, a collaborative effort involving CEL, PCI and the CTL.
Generative AI and Industry: Are Your Students Ready for the Future of Work?
AI in the Classroom Lunch & Learn Series
Monday, 27 November 2023
12:45 - 13:45
Location: S215
Join Yermolai Solzhenitsin, a Senior Partner from McKinsey & Company Shanghai, a worldwide leading management consulting firm, for a discussion of the impact of generative AI on different industries.
Yermolai will share a balanced perspective on how GenAI is currently affecting the workplace in different industries and desired skill set in new graduates and how we might prepare our students for it. What are the opportunities for faculty and university as a whole?
Please RSVP before 12:00 pm, November 24. Lunch will be provided to registered participants.
About the Presenter:
Yermolai Solzhenitsin holds a BA in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and a MPA in International Relations from Princeton University. He is a Senior Partner at McKinsey Shanghai and has worked for the World Bank. Over more than two decades with the firm, Yermolai has worked extensively across the metals, mining, energy, and transportation industries. Beyond the traditional areas of strategy, capital productivity, organizational systems, and operations, in recent years, he has focused on digitization and transformation programs more broadly.
Interesting read in light of talk: The organization of the future: Enabled by gen AI, driven by people
Fun to Fruitful: How to Deepen Field Trip Experiences
Presented by Emily Tsiang, Associate Arts Professor of IMB
Friday, November 10 @ 3:00-4:30pm | E405
This workshop will explore strategies for integrating experiential learning into field trips, share examples from faculty and design curricular ways to effectively guide students to connect field trips to course content.
Please RSVP here. If you are a member of the Experiential Learning Lab Fellowship cohort, you do not need to sign up.
This workshop is part of the Experiential Learning Lab Fellowship Program, a collaborative effort involving CEL, PCI and the CTL.
Broader Impacts: Partnering for Community-based Projects
Presented by Diane Geng, Assistant Provost for Academic Affairs & Steve Iams, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs
This workshop will discuss key elements behind developing partnerships with community-based organizations and individuals to co-create social impact projects in your course. Hear examples of successful NYUSH course-community partnerships, discuss how to initiate and manage partnerships, and get to know resources that can assist you in developing or enhancing partnerships.
Please RSVP here.
If you are a member of the Experiential Learning Lab Fellowship cohort, you do not need to sign up.
This workshop is part of the Experiential Learning Lab Fellowship Program, a collaborative effort involving CEL, PCI and the CTL.
NYU Shanghai Best Practices at Global Universities in China:
Ensuring First-Year Students' Success
NYU Shanghai's Center for Teaching and Learning hosted the inaugural Best Practices at Global Universities in China Forum on October 27, with a focus on the theme of 'Ensuring First-Year Students’ Success.' During this one-day conference, 60 participants, including faculty, academic support offices, and educational leaders from the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Duke Kunshan University, and NYU Shanghai, came together to exchange best practices aimed at supporting students' academic transition during their first undergraduate year. This event has created new opportunities for ongoing collaborations and joint projects, further solidifying our commitment to providing excellence and equity to every student.
Full-Day Program Overview:
- 10:30 - 10:45 | First-Year Overview Panel
- 10:50 - 12:00 | First-Year Overview Panel
- 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch Break
- 1:00 - 2:30 | First-Year Academic Support
- 2:30 - 3:30 | Best Practices in Multilevel Classrooms
- 3:30 - 3:45 | Coffee Break / Surprise!
- 3:45 - 5:00 | Teaching STEM to Multilevel Students
Please review the detailed program here.
Description: Brightspace is the Learning Management System NYU use to support teaching and learning. In this session, you will learn what Brightspace does and how it could enhance teaching and learning experiences briefly. We will also introduce new updates happened within Quizzes and Discussion tools.
Speaker: Angela Wang, RITS Digital Learning Manager
NYUSH students come from diverse linguistic, educational, and cultural backgrounds, which shape their ways of engaging, perceiving, and interacting with new information and the classroom. In this workshop, we will explore the significance of designing student-centered learning experiences and some useful tools to achieve this goal.
Speaker: Evgeniya Efremova, CTL Director
Description: Do your students claim they are unable to find the resources you shared? Are you finding it difficult to get started with a blank Content page? In this session, we will explore some common layouts for Content and share tips on creating interactive guides that students can easily follow using the Content tool.
Speaker: Angela Wang, RITS Digital Learning Manager
Description: Did you know that, on average, students only complete 20-30% of their reading assignments? Join this interactive workshop to explore five effective strategies and easy-to-use technological tools that will help you create meaningful student engagement with homework assignments, while providing insights about students' challenges that you can address in class.
Speaker: TBD
It is a virtual conference hosted by the SUNY Council on Writing and the program in writing and rhetoric at Stony Brook University.
It is an in-person conference at the University of Central Florida.
It is a free, student-run virtual conference.