Critical AI Collective

The Call

The CAE is looking for faculty who are interested in participating in a cohort of folks to engage in these three actions (collective sense-making, ethical imagination, and courageous leadership) related to learning and teaching with AI. We are looking for faculty from across many disciplines who are committed teachers with divergent viewpoints on the topic of AI. Three workshops will take place in the Winter of 2027, we will attempt to apply our learning to our classrooms in the spring of 2027, and conclude by sharing what we learned in May.

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The faculty collective will come together for conversations that place the transformative agency of human learners and teachers at the center of our discussions about technology. The objectives of this group are to:

  • interrogate our ideas, assumptions, and beliefs about what constitutes teaching and learning
  • critically examine the affordances and limitations of AI on learning and teaching
  • reflect on whether/how our personal values and ethics influence our views on AI
  • make principled decisions about uses of and resistances to AI in teaching and learning in our courses
  • investigate the pedagogical effectiveness of these decisions
  • use what we learn to offer support and opportunities for professional learning to our colleagues

Meeting Dates

Session Guiding Questions

1/5/27
9 AM – 12 PM
  • What do our students need to understand about learning?
  • How do we conceptualize teaching?

1/7/27
9 AM – 2 PM
  • What are the affordances and limitations of AI on learning and teaching?
  • What are our values and how do they help us making principled decisions about our uses of and resistances to AI in teaching and learning?

1/14/27
9 AM – 12 PM
  • What principled decisions do I need to make related to teaching and learning?
  • How can I study/document the effectiveness of these decisions?

Spring Semester, 2027
  •  What are we learning? What are the results?

5/13/27
9 AM - 12 PM
  •  What did we learn?

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“The growing presence of generative AI marks another major historical rupture in education. This rupture comes with profound contradictions and dilemmas. Education is increasingly becoming a battleground for commercial frontier AI models that promise speed, efficiency and scale while also threatening the slowness where deep learning, reflection and human connection flourish. The same systems that open new vistas for learning have already shown how they also risk cognitive offloading, decline in critical thinking and reinforce divides of access, gender and language. As they generate data at unprecedented scale, they also raise unanswered questions of privacy, ethics, sovereignty and trust. There are no simple directions to these dilemmas. These tensions demand collective sense-making, ethical imagination and courageous leadership”

- UNESCO | 2025, p.5