I have been working for a while (with some amazing colleagues) on course on creative teaching with AI. This was publicly announced in a story in today’s MLFTC newsletter titled: GenAI as a creative K–12 learning partner

For those who haven’t had a chance to read the story yet, here’s a quick rundown. The story highlights the work that we have been doing at MLFTC into generative AI and its educational potential. What is truly cool is that we have been doing this at a systems level, something else the story emphasizes and something I had described in a previous post GenAI in Education: MLFTC’s Systems Approach.  

The course is available at newly launched ASU Professional Educator Learning Hub and can be taken as a self-paced course or as a micro-credential. One of the greatest pleasures of working on this course was that it gave me a chance to work with some fun colleagues—Janel White Taylor and James Dunnigan. Janel and Jim are truly amazing colleagues, and honestly, this course could not have existed without their vision and hard work. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Gina Wilt, the brains behind the Professional Educator Learning Hub, as well as the team from the Office of Digital Learning for all the work and effort they put into making this course a reality.

The course is designed to help educators get comfortable with GenAI as a creative learning tool while also tackling the tricky ethical questions that come with it. Creativity, I have always argued, is at the heart of effective teaching, and these new technologies are giving us unprecedented opportunities to flex those creative muscles. But as we all know – it’s a bit of a wild west out there. That’s why we’re focusing not just on the “how” of using GenAI, but also on the “why” and “should we?”

But there’s more brewing at MLFTC than just this course (as the story describes). At a personal level, there is the work around TPACK in an age of Gen AI, (and a course on using TPACK for online pedagogy) and the AI in Education Learning Futures Collaborative, which may be the most fun hour-long Friday morning meeting I have ever been part of. On a broader level, our faculty and staff are knee-deep in over 50 GenAI projects, which include chatbots for personalized learning, simulation exercises for pre-service teachers, and so much more.

If you’re curious about what we’re up to, read the story or jump right into trying out the course.