Presented By: Center for Academic Innovation
AI Futures Keynote: Julie Schell
Taking Teaching with AI Seriously: Socratic Tutors as AI Pedagogy
What happens when faculty move beyond debating AI’s role in education and begin designing, testing, and evaluating new approaches in their own courses – all without a playbook?
Schell will share case studies of faculty across disciplines who are building AI pedagogy from the ground up using Socratic AI tutors. Through examples of tutor prompts and instructions, she will show the pedagogical challenges faculty set out to address, the choices they made in designing their tutors, and what they learned from using them with students.
Drawing on a year of student–tutor interactions, she will also examine evidence of how students use faculty-built AI tutors to practice behaviors that can be difficult to foster and observe, including metacognition, error processing, and self-directed learning. The findings suggest a compelling possibility: Thoughtfully designed AI may create new opportunities for students to practice the difficult thinking that meaningful learning requires.
About AI Futures Keynote Speaker Series
The Center for Academic Innovation is convening leading voices in academia to examine emerging applications of artificial intelligence in higher education. The AI Futures keynote speaker series is a critical examination of how artificial intelligence is reshaping teaching and learning as we consider the future of life changing education at Michigan.
Schell will share case studies of faculty across disciplines who are building AI pedagogy from the ground up using Socratic AI tutors. Through examples of tutor prompts and instructions, she will show the pedagogical challenges faculty set out to address, the choices they made in designing their tutors, and what they learned from using them with students.
Drawing on a year of student–tutor interactions, she will also examine evidence of how students use faculty-built AI tutors to practice behaviors that can be difficult to foster and observe, including metacognition, error processing, and self-directed learning. The findings suggest a compelling possibility: Thoughtfully designed AI may create new opportunities for students to practice the difficult thinking that meaningful learning requires.
About AI Futures Keynote Speaker Series
The Center for Academic Innovation is convening leading voices in academia to examine emerging applications of artificial intelligence in higher education. The AI Futures keynote speaker series is a critical examination of how artificial intelligence is reshaping teaching and learning as we consider the future of life changing education at Michigan.
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