Agenda
9:30 AM | Check-In
Please check-in upon arrival at the J.B. Duke Ballroom Gallery.
10 AM – 12 PM | Concurrent Workshops
To attend one of the concurrent workshops, you must first register for the Summit.
Your Summit registration confirmation message will include links to the workshop registration pages.
Many of us are feeling it: worried, demoralized, behind, overwhelmed. We’re unsure what to do, where to start, or whether the ground has simply shifted too fast for us to catch up. Generative AI feels like it's changing everything about teaching, and it's easy to feel like we're only ever reacting.
But we have agency here. We can start from what we most value in teaching and make our decisions from there.
This workshop is a chance to pause and ask foundational questions: Why do we teach our discipline, what do we most want students to learn and to experience in our classes, and how do we teach, now? We’ll use the new Duke curriculum values of “connections” and “curiosity” to help us focus our discussion on what we most care about in our teaching. From there, we'll turn to generative AI as a question to hold up against what we already know matters. How does it challenge us to articulate and align with our core values?
Through guided reflection, small-group conversation with faculty who have developed values-aligned assignments in the context of generative AI, and hands-on work with your own course, you'll leave with:
- A clearer sense of the values that anchor your teaching
- A practical framework for testing generative AI-related decisions against those values (including deciding no AI)
- At least one concrete change or confirmation for something you're teaching that connects to one of our new curriculum values.
Participants are encouraged to come with a specific course in mind. This workshop is open to instructors teaching at any course level, whether skeptical about generative AI, enthusiastic, or somewhere in between.
To register for this workshop, you must first register for the Summit. Your Summit registration confirmation message will include links to the workshop registration pages.
This workshop introduces the ACTUAL intelligence framework to assist educators as they commit to human-centered teaching practices. As AI now has the capacity to generate everything from lecture notes to entire courses, the question is not whether AI will transform education, but rather what aspects of teaching should remain deeply human?
We'll work from the ACTUAL intelligence framework—which centers agency, connection, trust, uniqueness, adaptability, and lifelong learning—to explore where AI may or may not have a place in your teaching. Participants will use Gemini Notebook to analyze their own course materials, exploring how it can help identify alignment (or misalignment) among course outcomes, learning objectives, instructional materials, assignments, and assessment strategies. Rather than asking AI to design our courses, we'll ask it to help us see them more clearly.
Participants should have a Google account and, if possible, course materials they'd like to explore during the session. Those who prefer to observe are equally welcome.
Recommended (but not required) pre-reading: ACTUAL Intelligence: Practitioner Perspectives on Centering the Human in the Age of AI.
This workshop is ideal for educators who are curious, cautious, or simply unconvinced about AI, and who want to think critically about AI before deciding how (or whether) it belongs in their teaching.
To register for this workshop, you must first register for the Summit. Your Summit registration confirmation message will include links to the workshop registration pages.
What does and should student learning look like in a time when AI can accomplish most tasks?
In this workshop, participants will grapple with the challenge of identifying essential human skills and knowledge relevant to their field that AI cannot replace or replicate. Then we will present a process by which instructors can consider how to incorporate these skills into course-level learning outcomes, map these outcomes onto assessments, and design new assessments that measure these human-centered outcomes effectively. Part of this consideration will be where to prioritize the human elements, and where to potentially integrate AI meaningfully into the assessments. Participants will have opportunities to practice applying this process to their own course context.
The main takeaway of this session will be a template for moving forward with course- and assessment-level redesign that centers on assessing the human elements of learning and making intentional choices about the place of AI in the classroom.
To register for this workshop, you must first register for the Summit. Your Summit registration confirmation message will include links to the workshop registration pages.
12 – 1:15 PM | Lunch
If you did not attend a workshop, please be sure to check-in upon arrival at the J.B. Duke Ballroom Gallery.
1:15 – 1:30 PM | Opening Remarks
Delivered by Bridgette Martin Hard, Faculty Director of the Duke Center for Teaching and Learning.
1:30 – 2:45 PM | Community Conversation: Questions Worth Asking and Experiments Worth Trying
Moderated by Remi Kalir and featuring Duke students and faculty.
The Community Conversation session will feature three Duke students and three Duke instructors who will share short presentations rooted in provocative questions about the role of AI in education. Woven throughout these paired presentations will be opportunities for structured dialogue among Summit participants as our community collectively questions and makes sense of how AI has changed learning and instructional practices.
2:45 – 3 PM | Break
3 – 4:15 PM | Reflections and Speculations: The Future of Academic Innovation
Moderated by Aria Chernik and featuring Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, Sarah Egan Warren, and Viji Sathy.
In this session, workshop facilitators return to connect the guiding questions, insights, and tensions that emerged across the morning workshops, weaving together the day’s conversations. Together, we’ll have an honest discussion about what gives us hope, what gives us pause, and what kind of future for teaching and learning we are willing to build.
4:15 – 4:30 PM | Closing Remarks
Delivered by Joseph Salem, Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librarian and Vice Provost for Library Affairs.
4:30 – 5:30 PM | Happy Hour, Poetry, and Play
We will end the day together with a happy hour infused with poetry and play. After exploring difficult questions, experimenting with new approaches, and developing new capacities, we’ll make space for connection, creativity, and hope as we imagine new possibilities for teaching and learning.
