Faculty Reading Groups

Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning – Full
Tuesdays: 2/4, 2/11, 2/18
1:00–2:30 p.m.
Location: TBD
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In Teaching with AI, Bowen and Watson explore how AI is changing education and offer practical guidance on integrating AI into teaching and learning. They share suggestions on topics such as enhancing creativity, addressing academic integrity, and designing effective assessments. This group will provide a collaborative space to explore the transformative potential of AI in education, discuss innovative teaching strategies, and a range of share experiences. (AI helped to create this description.)

Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning (2nd ed.)
Tuesdays: 2/13, 2/20, 2/27
1:00–2:30 p.m.
432 Diffenbaugh
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How do I get my students’ attention? How do I help them to go deeper, to make connections, and to feel empowered by their own learning? James Lang’s book, now in its second edition, explores the science of learning and shares with us small changes we can make that will have a powerful influence on our students’ learning. Join us as we discuss a variety of practical tools and techniques that can help us answer these and other teaching questions.E-book available for free through FSU’s libraries.

The Missing Course: Everything They Never Taught You About College Teaching
Wednesdays: 2/19, 2/26, 3/5
1:30–3:00 p.m.
Dirac Library Conference Room
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There has been a revolution in teaching and learning over the past generation, and we now have a whole new understanding of how the brain works and how students learn. In The Missing Course, David Gooblar offers a practical guide to teaching and learning packed with research-based insights to help students learn in any discipline. From active-learning strategies to course design to getting students talking, in this group, participants will find ideas and tips they can use in their classrooms right away.E-book available for free through FSU’s libraries.

More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI – Full
Fridays: 2/21, 2/28, 3/7
2:00–3:30 p.m.
432 Diffenbaugh
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John Warner is the author of Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities and editor of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. In his latest book, which will be released on Feb. 4th, Warner addresses the topic on so many of our minds: How can we teach with writing in the age of generative AI? He argues that although computers can produce text, important aspects of writing are uniquely human. Emphasizing the ways humans think, feel, and learn through writing, More Than Words can inform both our teaching and our relationship with our own writing. In this group, we’ll discuss those topics and more. We hope you can join us.