Midday Mindshare: AI for Teaching Returns with New Summer Workshops | The Teaching & Learning Centre

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Building on the momentum of April’s sessions, the Teaching & Learning Centre is pleased to welcome back the Midday Mindshare: AI for Teaching series with a new lineup of workshops for the summer term.

Designed for faculty and instructors at all levels of familiarity with artificial intelligence (AI), these in-person sessions in the AI Lab at Newnham Campus offer practical, hands-on opportunities to explore how AI can support teaching, spark new ideas, and enhance everyday academic workflows. Whether you joined us in April or are attending for the first time, the summer sessions introduce new topics and fresh ways to engage with emerging tools.

Upcoming Summer Workshops

Welcome to the AI Lab
Tuesday, May 19 at 12:35 p.m.
Join us for this week's Midday Mindshare in the AI Lab, where we’ll take a beginner-friendly look at Seneca’s newest AI-enabled tools for you to use. We'll explore what AI applications are available and how to best use them for teaching.

Using Copilot to Spark Teaching Ideas
Wednesday, May 20 at 11:40 a.m.
Do you have a lesson that never quite works the way you hope? Or a concept that students struggle with year after year? In this hands-on workshop, you’ll discover how Copilot can act as a brainstorming partner when inspiration (or time) is running low. Using the Idea Coach and Create features, you’ll come up with ready-to-use activity ideas, instructions, visuals, and worksheets for the more challenging topics in your course. Within an hour, you will be able to inject creative solutions into your planning and implement at least one new technique into your course right away.
No AI experience required. Just curiosity.
What to bring: Your laptop and a lesson topic that could use a fresh approach.

Old Lessons, New Tricks
Tuesday, June 16 at 12:35 p.m.
Join us for this week's Midday Mindshare in the AI Lab, where we encourage you to bring at least 1 lesson that you would like to be repurposed to reflect modern AI technology. Here we can brainstorm and discuss ways in which students (and you!) can use our available AI platforms as a tool, rather than a simple answer.

Held in-person in the AI Lab at Newnham Campus, these workshops continue to emphasize practical, approachable strategies you can apply right away in your teaching and course design.

Register to attend in MyPD. Space is limited, so we encourage early registration.

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