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Workshop 1 - AI Literacy & Prompt Engineering

Event sponsored by Universities of Wisconsin, Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID)

Both faculty and students needed a new digital literacy to apply the increased critical thinking needed in the internet age, and AI literacy is a critical new skill every teacher and graduate needs. The two largest complaints about AI responses are that they are either wrong or boring, but both are often the result of poor or bland prompting. AI prompts need to provide more human context and be more literal than the ones we tend to use with a search engine. Since AI uses natural human language, it also needs human-level communication precision.: asking your AI to slow down and think more carefully can greatly improve results! The features of better prompts– task, format, voice and context–are direct extensions of the critical writing and thinking skills we already teach and value. In this interactive workshop, you will learn how to find the right AI tool for your task and get to compare and practice with different AIs.

PRESENTER:

Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (2023), co-authored by José Antonio Bowen and Edward Watson, will be a common read throughout the Universities of Wisconsin this year.  To support faculty and instructors, OPID is sponsoring a Zoom presentation by  José Bowen followed by three workshops. 

José Antonio Bowen has won teaching awards at Stanford and Georgetown, was Dean at Miami and Southern Methodist University and President of Goucher College.  He has written over 100 scholarly articles and has appeared as a musician with Stan Getz, Bobby McFerrin, and others. He is the author of Teaching Naked (2012, the winner of the Ness Award for Best Book on Higher Education), Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers using Relationships, Resilience and Reflection (2021) and Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning with C. Edward Watson (2024). Stanford honored him as a Distinguished Alumni Scholar (2010) and he has presented keynotes and workshops at more than 300 campuses and conferences in 46 states and 17 countries around the world. In 2018, he was awarded the Ernest L. Boyer Award (for significant contributions to American higher education). He is now a senior fellow for the American Association of Colleges and Universities and also does innovation and inclusion consulting for a wide variety of Fortune 500 companies.

 

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When

Past occurrences (1)

  • 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18

Where

Online

Contact

For questions about this event or to request disability accommodations , contact UWL CATL at 6881 or CATL@uwlax.edu.

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