Deepening our AI Practice

As generative AI evolves in sophistication and becomes more deeply integrated into our daily lives, both students and educators need to engage in ongoing learning to develop new skills. This online program is designed for educators who are interested in strengthening their AI skills while exploring how to engage students in productive, ethical use of generative AI tools. By bringing together educators from different schools for learning, discussion, and practice, this program aims to not just deliver knowledge, but share it. Understanding how different schools and people are navigating the ever-changing boundaries of appropriate AI use at school will help us make decisions about the best way to engage our students.
Over Four Sessions Participants will:

• Learn how to apply critical thinking and prior knowledge to use AI tools effectively and to accurately assess their output
• Learn and practice how to train AI for specific purposes using prompting and external resources
• Understand and practice how to harness AI’s multimodal capabilities, and/or its ability to understand and generate imagery, audio, video, code, etc.
• Explore critical AI Literacy, and how to apply ethical and academic principles to make decisions about if and how to use AI for school use
  AUDIENCE
  For all educators who are interested in deepening their AI practice. Participants need to have an introductory knowledge of and experience with generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini (covered in “Making Sense of AI” workshop). To ensure they are working with a sophisticated AI model, participants should have, at minimum, access to ChatGPT-4o (available with a free account) or a paid subscription to ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
  DATES AND TIMES
  SESSION 1: October 31, 2024 | 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  SESSION 2: December 5, 2024 | 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  SESSION 3: February 13, 2025 | 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  SESSION 4: April 22, 2025 | 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  CANCELLATION POLICY
  Life happens. We understand that there will be times when you cannot attend a workshop that you have registered and paid for. Registration may be transferred to a different person up to 7 days before a session. However refunds will not be given, and a session missed for any reason will not be refunded.
  Below we have outlined our cancellation and refund policy, which we have in place to ensure the most accurate numbers when we secure well in advance locations, catering, and facilitators. Thank you for understanding.
  For our ongoing programs or one-day intensives, refunds are available (less a $50 processing fee) up to 22 days before the scheduled starting date. We are unable to provide refunds for cancellations made 21 days or less prior to the first day of a workshop. A missed session that is part of an ongoing program is non-refundable and non-transferrable.
  Please contact us by email as soon as you know you cannot attend a workshop.
  You will receive a full refund if CATDC chooses to cancel this event.

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