Every AI-generated assignment, derailed class activity, and academic integrity conversation takes a toll: eroding learning partnerships, draining time and energy, and impacting the class environment. Even as we might invest time and effort in developing new curriculum and assessments and giving students new opportunities, we can find ourselves in cycles of guilt, anger, sadness, existential crisis. You are not alone.
This workshop opens the AI Symposium by making space to discuss the negative impacts of high rates of generative AI use on us and our students. By sharing our struggles, we build community, process the difficulties, and move to a better place for growth.
Outcomes & Goals:
- Name and acknowledge the toll of high rates of generative AI-use on teaching and learning
- Identify strategies to navigate harms and work toward sustainability
- Reclaim the narrative to make space for agency, growth, and possibility
Facilitator:
Stephanie Ojeda Ponce is an avid reader, music enthusiast, facilitator, and educator in Des Moines, WA. Like relatives and ancestors from the U.S., El Salvador and Mexico, Stephanie enjoys growing fruits and vegetables and raising chickens and waterfowl. Her family, friends, and communities are always at the heart of her work.
Stephanie completed B.A. and M.A. degrees in English at California State University, Bakersfield. Then, she moved to the East Bay (San Francisco) area, working as an adjunct English instructor and K-12 substitute, until moving to the Seattle area in 2014. Currently tenured English faculty at Highline College, Stephanie teaches college writing, research, literature, and diversity and globalism studies. She has facilitated professional development for educators locally and nationally, including at prestigious conferences like the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE). Through discussions and workshops on topics including culturally responsive teaching practices, science fiction, artificial intelligence, pleasure activism, and rest as resistance, Stephanie centers excellence and wellness for students and education practitioners.
Modality:
Hybrid. In-person in the Faculty Center (9-109) and on Zoom. Look up the link on this list of AI Symposium Zoom links (Highline login required)
About the 2026 AI Symposium workshop series:
2026 AI Symposium workshop sessions take place throughout Spring Quarter. Click here to view other workshops in the series.