CUNY Academic Commons

Keynote for Research Day, Hostos Community College, CUNY, 2025. (Invited Speaker.)

“AI as a Teacher’s Assistant: How to Get Started,” Workshop for the York College Future Teachers Club, CUNY, 2025.  

“Growing with AI: How AI Can Support Growth Mindsets,” Teaching Matters Series on Generative AI, CUNY Innovative Teaching Academy, 2025.

“AI in Action: Real-World Innovations in Course and Program Integration,” Online Learning Consortium (OLC), sponsored by Construct Education, 2025. (Invited Speaker.)

Closing Plenary, NYC Adult Basic Education/ESOL 2025 Conference: Expanding Opportunities to Elevate Teaching and Learning, 2025. (Invited Speaker.)

“AI Tech Slam,” Workshop for AI in Education’s General Meeting, 2025. (Co-host.)

“Building Bridges of Knowledge,” Disciplinary Leads and Education Panels, CUNY Teaching & Learning Conference, 2025.

“Developing Custom Chatbots with College Students,” College of Staten Island AI + Education Symposium, CUNY. (Invited Speaker.)

“Humanizing the Classroom: Pedagogy in the age of AI,” Center for Teaching & Learning, Baruch College, CUNY, 2025. (Invited Speaker.)

“Come Meet a ‘Why Should I Care About AI?’ Chatbot,” AI for York Kickoff, Center for Teaching and Learning Technologies, York College, CUNY , 2025. (Invited Speaker.)

“Panel 4: GPTs, GEMs, and Chatbots,” Learning to Teach Creative Technologies with Generative AI, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, 2025. (Co-presenter.)

“Navigating AI in Teacher Preparation: Fostering Critical Thinking, Creativity and Care,” Panel, CUNY IT Conference, 2024.

“Fostering Joyous Collaboration Through a CUNY-Wide AI Initiative,” Panel, CUNY IT Conference, 2024.

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

“AI and Student Learning,” “AI and Assessment,” and “AI and Pedagogy” – “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.)

“AI as a Teacher’s Assistant,” “AI as a Tutor,” and “AI as a Challenge” – AI Workshops at York College, CUNY, 2024. (Supported by Computing Integrated Teacher Education, CITE.)

“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.)

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

“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.

• 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

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

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

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

• https://doi.org/10.1080/08913811.2023.2284042
• Full text of accepted version: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/yc_pubs/336/