Webinar Series: Exploring AI and Education: Opportunities, Tools, and Crisis
About the Series
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly ubiquitous in our daily lives, educators face a choice in their own practice, of whether and how to use AI. They also face a harsh reality in the work of their students: an increasing number will use AI in both sanctioned and unsanctioned ways to complete learning tasks.
Join faculty from Lehigh’s College of Education as they explore AI from three perspectives: AI as an opportunity for students and educators, AI as a toolset from which you can build your own custom learning supports, and AI as an ongoing crisis for education.
This free webinar series will take place monthly from September through January on the second Tuesday of each month. Recordings will be posted to YouTube following each session.
Webinar Schedule
Tuesday, September 8
| The importance of multiple perspectives on AIPresented by Tom Hammond AI isn’t one thing, it’s many things. This opening presentation will explore why a multi-perspective approach is necessary for thinking about this technology. We’ll look at how one form of AI, chatbots, do their work and discuss the importance of keeping in perspective its processes as well as its outputs. |
Tuesday, October 13
| AI as opportunityPresented by Tom Hammond In order to make the most of the opportunities provided by AI, users must understand its capabilities and limitations, as well as their own. This session will use the concept of the “jagged frontier” of AI capabilities (Mollick, 2023) to discuss the opportunities and challenges of using AI as a productivity tool and as a learning tool. |
Tuesday, November 10
| AI as ToolsetPresented by Juan Zheng TBA |
Tuesday, December 8
| AI as CrisisPresented by Tom Hammond On the one hand, AI is just the latest evolution in humans’ relationship with information, similar to the printing press or the internet. On the other hand, AI is completely unlike these earlier technologies in its ability to emulate human behavior. As AI becomes more and more integrated into our lives, it can trigger social/emotional, educational, economic, political, and even existential crises. |
Tuesday, January 12
| Panel DiscussionPresented by Tom Hammond, Juan Zheng, Zilong Pan, and Sara Heintzelman TBA |
Learn More
If you are interested in going further with these topics, the College of Education offers an online course in the spring 2027 semester, open to undergraduates, graduate students, and non-degree students.
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