2025LHRICTechExpo

This session equips 21st-century learners and educators with an understanding of the past, present, and future of humanities education by integrating AI and design thinking to enhance creativity and collaboration. As education evolves rapidly, AI serves as an assistive technology that supports brainstorming, generates adaptive feedback, and fosters imaginative problem-solving. Through project-based learning and the IDEO Design-Thinking framework (EDIPT), students explore how a designer’s purpose—akin to an author’s purpose—drives real-world change. By leveraging AI to enhance iteration and meaning-making, this approach fosters purposeful creation, ensuring curriculum development keeps pace with modern learning while preparing students for future challenges.

Discover how Fable the Eagle: Book Oracle, an AI-powered chatbot, is working to transform student engagement with library collections. This session explores the development of a personalized book recommendation system, from initial concept to real-world implementation. Learn about the challenges, successes, and insights gained from student interactions. See how AI can enhance library services, and explore next steps for refining and expanding this technology. Whether you're a tech enthusiast or an educator, join us to discuss the future of AI-driven reading recommendations!

In this session, we'll use the 'CRE' prompting framework with ChatGPT to effectively assess student work. By providing the assignment criteria, assessment rubric, and student samples, we'll guide ChatGPT to generate individualized, actionable feedback that supports student growth. This approach not only streamlines grading but also helps educators provide more consistent and meaningful insights—giving students the guidance they need to improve their writing.

This innovative unit challenges students to critically examine artificial intelligence's role in our world. Through self-generated inquiries and rigorous research, learners investigate AI applications across various sectors, analyzing both benefits and ethical concerns. Students engage in collaborative discussions, honing their ability to articulate complex ideas and consider diverse perspectives. The unit culminates in multimedia presentations showcasing their findings on AI's societal impact, fostering digital literacy and responsible technology integration skills essential for 21st-century citizens.

As a librarian and a technology integrator we have spent the year exploring how to incorporate AI in a way that helps students think about media literacy anew. With AI being an everchanging technology teachers need to approach the topic with a flexible mindset. Our goal is for students to be able to successfully navigate the technology and critically think about its application. In this session we will share the lessons we have done with students and the workshops we have led with teachers. Participants will walk away with lesson ideas and new teacher tools to add to their repitoire.