For Duke faculty and instructors, this practical session led by José Bowen, the author of "Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning," will help you discover what AI can do for you in your teaching and other academic work (such as grant applications, communication, accreditation reports, student support and faster grading). All assignments are now AI assignments, so we will consider a broad range of both AI-Resistant and AI-Inclusive new assignment techniques, including writing. Understanding which tasks will need human quality will be critical for new curriculum and engaging students; we can and must both reduce cheating and raise standards. We will also learn about how to select the right AI tool for different tasks, how to improve prompts and results, how to create an AI tutor and how to approach new AI policies. 

Bring a laptop and learn and practice how AI can improve your work-flow and teaching, while giving you more time for the rest of your life. 

Workshop location: Trent Semans Center, Learning Hall 2050 (see map; see drop-off and parking info).

The first 60 attending Duke faculty/instructors will receive a copy of the book "Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning" by José Bowen and C. Edward Watson.

This event is co-sponsored by Learning Innovation & Lifetime Education and Duke University Libraries.

Presenter:

José Antonio Bowen has been leading innovation and change for over 40 years at Stanford, Georgetown and the University of Southampton (UK), then as a dean at Miami University and SMU and as President of Goucher College (voted a Top 10 Most Innovative College under his leadership). Bowen has appeared on five continents as a musician and has performed with Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby McFerrin, Dave Brubeck, Liberace, and many others. His compositions include a symphony (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 1985), and music for Jerry Garcia. Bowen holds four degrees from Stanford University (in Chemistry, Music, and Humanities) has written over 100 scholarly articles, is editor of the Cambridge Companion to Conducting (2003), and an editor of the 6-CD set, Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology (2011). He received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and has three TED talks. In 2010, Stanford honored him as a Distinguished Alumni Scholar.

His books on teaching include Teaching Naked (2012) winner of the Ness Award for Best Book on Higher Education, Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers using Relationships, Resilience and Reflection (2021) and his new book with C. Edward Watson, Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (2024).

Bowen was given a Stanford Centennial Award for Undergraduate Teaching in 1990 and he has presented keynotes and workshops at more than 300 campuses and conferences in 46 states and 17 countries around the world. He has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, PBS News Hour, and on NPR. For more, see his website teachingnaked.com or his education TED talks.

In 2010, Stanford honored him as a Distinguished Alumni Scholar and in 2018 he was awarded the Ernest L. Boyer Award for significant contributions to American higher education and is now a senior fellow for the American Association of Colleges and Universities. He lives in Dallas and also does innovation and inclusion consulting for a wide variety of Fortune 500 companies.