Join MU colleagues for a watch party of “What Do I Do if My Students Hate AI? What it Really Means to ‘Meet Students Where They Are'” led by Dr. Jason Gulya, Berkeley College. Session Description: Imagine this. You’re a forward-thinking educator. You’ve been using Generative AI for a while. You have a good sense of the opportunities and challenges. You feel like you have a handle on things. You decide to work it into your assignments. You send it to everyone, excited. Then, you meet everyone in-class to talk about it. A student chimes in: “I’m not using AI.” Another one says: “I thought AI was going to kill us all. Why am I using it?” And yet another: “Nope, no way. It’s destroying our environment.” I’ll come clean. This is not a hypothetical scenario. This is an all-too-real situation that happened to me. In this presentation, I’m going to talk about one of the most difficult of questions. How we manage incorporating AI into the classroom if everyone’s on a different page? Because let’s be honest. Our students have very different views of this technology. Some see it as part of everyday life. Others see it as uninteresting and boring. Others see it as dangerous. If we’re not listening to our students and what they think about AI, we’re missing a huge part of the puzzle.

By the end of the session, participants will be able to discuss the importance of accounting for students’ varying perspectives on the use of AI and identify strategies that can mitigate the challenges that result from these differing views.