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Casandra Silva Sibilin

(she/her/hers)

Philosophy Lecturer @ CUNY York College | AI integration into Education, Innovative Teaching, Philosophy, SoTL

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Recent Presentations and Workshops

“Getting Your Instructors into the Game: Empowering AI Literacy and Adoption,” Alchemy Webinar, 2024. (Invited Speaker.)

“AI and Student Learning,” Part of “Promises and Challenges of AI: A Three-Part Discussion Series for York Faculty,” York College, CUNY, 2024. (Supported by York College Strategic Funding.)

AI Workshop for the Fall Semester Faculty Institute, Medgar Evers College, CUNY, 2024. (Invited Speaker.)

“CUNY Learning Mindsets Modules for Student Success,” CUNY Innovative Teaching Academy, 2024. (Presenter and facilitator for breakout room discussion on “Sense of Belonging.”)

“Beyond CheatGPT: Cultivating Integrity with Creative AI Assignments,” Teaching for Integrity Series, York College, CUNY, 2024. (Co-presenter.)

“AI for Ungrading: New Strategies for Student-Centered Learning,” CUNY Teaching & Learning Conference, 2024. Honorable mention.

“Preparing P-12 Teachers to Teach, About, With, Through & Against AI,” CUNY IT Conference, 2023. (Panel.)

“Developing Learning Mindsets Through Ongoing Dialogue: Some Personal Strategies,” Presentation as CUNY Mindset Ambassador, Center for Teaching, Learning, and Educational Technologies (CTLET), York College, CUNY, 2023.

“Bot’s Up? Philosophy of Education Students Evaluate an AI Bot,” Teaching Artifact and Micro-Teaching Presentation for Computing Integrated Teacher Education (CITE), CUNY, 2023.

CUNY Initiatives

• CUNY Building Bridges of Knowledge Disciplinary Lead for Education Team
• CUNY Learning Mindsets Ambassador & Community Builder
• CUNY Computing Integrated Education (CITE) Faculty Participant
• The CUNY 1969 Project Teach-In Faculty Participant
• CUNY Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Fellow
• Mellon Transformative Learning in the Humanities (TLH) Fellow

Other Recent Activities

• AI in Education, Member-at-Large (elected)
• AI in Education, Subgroup on Custom Bots/GPTs, Organizer

Education

M.A., University of Chicago
B.A., Barnard College, Columbia University

Positions

Lecturer, Coordinator of Philosophy, History, Philosophy, and Anthropology, York College

Publications

Silva Sibilin, C. (2023). Education and the epistemological crisis in the age of ChatGPT. Critical Review, 1–12.