The University of Michigan’s 26th annual Enriching Scholarship conference, scheduled for May 6-9 around the theme “Surveying the Now,” aims to highlight the ways technology has changed current classrooms.
All sessions will be conducted virtually. The conference is free for all members of the U-M community and is hosted by U-M’s Teaching and Technology Collaborative. Between 2013-23, Enriching Scholarship hosted about 2,098 sessions, with 626 presenters and more than 31,000 registrations.
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Topics will include the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom, disruptive technologies, how-to workshops on the use of technology, data privacy, proctoring, flipped teaching, and teaching and learning in the online space.
Keynote speakers are Jamiella Brooks, director of student equity and inclusion initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School, and Julie McGurk, director of teaching development and initiatives at Yale University’s Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning.
Brooks and McGurk will co-present “Maintaining Rigor and Inclusion in the Face of AI” on May 6. Their talk will address three principles of rigor as inclusive practice.
As described by the presenters, “Rigor and inclusion are often seen in opposition to one another, despite the evidence that inclusion necessitates rigor to empower all of our students to grow, build on their strengths, and learn. The rise of AI introduces a new problem to the ethics and maintenance of rigor in our classrooms.
“While in some facets, computers have proven themselves to be more efficient, a misuse of or disengagement from AI can lead to a less rigorous and less equitable learning experience for our students. We will explore a number of creative uses of AI tools that integrate rigor in their activities and assessments, while discussing the ethical dimensions the use of these tools raise.”
On the importance of continued innovation in teaching with technology, Sean DeMonner, executive director of teaching and learning for Information and Technology Services, said this year’s conference comes at “a truly historical moment.”
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“We are living through a period of fundamental change in the way we learn and teach, and it is happening now,” he said. “By ‘Surveying the Now’ and actively embracing it, we have the opportunity to shape this unfolding transformation while steadfastly maintaining our core values of equity, accessibility and privacy.”
