Hi All,

Please see the attached CFP for participation in a symposium on the ethical implications of AI being held at Baruch College in March.

Best,

Luke

—
Luke Waltzer, Ph.D.
Director, Teaching and Learning Center
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 3300.19
New York, NY 10016
http://cuny.is/teaching

Hi All—see below for terrific opportunity at CUNY’s School of Labor and Urban Studies.

Best,
Luke

—
Luke Waltzer, Ph.D.
Director, Teaching and Learning Center
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 3300.19
New York, NY 10016
http://cuny.is/teaching

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Date: Thursday, September 18, 202…[Read more]

Sharing two Learning Experience Designer positions at BMCC, working with a great team to help integrate technology into teaching and learning. The positions will be posted until at least September 15. These are full-time, HEO Associate…[Read more]

As a new academic year begins, my colleagues and I wanted to share a glimpse inside some of the work we’ve done over the past few months in our Critical AI Literacy Institute.

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Greetings, All,

This week writer Amanda Guinzburg shared screenshots of an extended conversation she had with ChatGPT, which she invited to help her think through how to prepare a letter pitching her work to a literary agent. What she got was a bluffing, obsequious robot that repeatedly misleads her about its capacities while continuously…[Read more]

See attached for a flyer for a zine launch event June 18th, 7-8:30 at The Word is Change Bookstore in Brooklyn.

Best,
Luke

—
Luke Waltzer, Ph.D.
Director, Teaching and Learning Center
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 3300.19
New York, NY 10016
http://cuny.is/teaching

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Greetings, All,

Our team at the Teaching and Learning Center has been running our Teach@CUNY Summer Institute this week, supporting 70 first year doctoral students who are preparing to teach at CUNY starting in the fall. There is much interest in and concern about AI. At a panel of undergraduate students yesterday, two out of the three panelists…[Read more]

Greetings, All,

Our semester is winding down, but the AI hot takes machine continues to churn, unabated. Many of the pieces I’ve shared in these roundups have been focused on what our responsibilities are as educators towards our institutions, our disciplines, our communities, and, most of all, our students. This will continue to be a key…[Read more]

Greetings, All,

Sharing a few pieces this week that span genAI’s impact on our work in universities, highlight some smart responses and intentional uses, and reveal much about how the federal government is perceiving the space.

Kashmir Hill writes in the New York Times about college professors who use genAI, and students who are calling them on…[Read more]

Greetings, All,

The onslaught of AI-related think pieces, research, reports, and commentary continues this week. The conversation remains intense.

The most talked about piece among those working in or otherwise connected to higher education is this from James Walsh in New York Magazine: “Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College.” (Ap…[Read more]