AI for Educators
Prep and Practice
Learning Tool Exploration
Workshop Format
TwT’s online workshops include interactive presentations that vary in length from 1 to 2 hours. We currently offer four types of sessions each with distinct engagements:
AI for Educators
Prep and Practice
Learning Tool Exploration
See the sections below for more details on each type of session. You can also register by clicking on the session title.
Spring 2026 Workshops & Training
AI for Educators
In these sessions, faculty will have opportunities to explore and learn about Generative Artificial Intelligence tools used in education.
Featured Session
Teaching Students About AI: Beyond Detection and Policing
Dates: 3/23/26 and 3/24/26, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
This workshop moves beyond detection and prohibition to equip you with practical strategies for productive conversations about AI in your classroom. You will explore how to design assignments that promote learning (not shortcuts), teach students to verify AI-generated content including fake citations, fabricated data, and deepfakes, and facilitate classroom conversations about the ethical dimensions of AI use, including bias, consent, and environmental impact.
Practical Uses of AI in the Classroom: Experiential Learning with ePortfolios
Dates: 4/8/26 and 4/9/26, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
This session will explore how artificial intelligence can transform experiential learning and enhance student engagement through ePortfolios. This session will explore practical strategies for integrating AI tools into classroom activities, help students reflect, create, and showcase their learning in meaningful ways through ePortfolio. Participants will learn to foster critical thinking skills, ethics, and human-centered uses of AI. By the end of the workshop, faculty will leave with actionable ideas and resources to incorporate AI-driven approaches into their teaching practice while maintaining academic integrity and promoting authentic learning experiences.
Learning Tool Exploration: AI Tools for Teaching and Learning
Dates: 4/15/26 and 4/16/26, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Participants are invited to join Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) and IT Learning and Development (ITLD) for a virtual session where participants will have the opportunity to recognize common and current Penn State approved AI tools and see how faculty can apply these tools to enhance creativity, productivity, and efficiency within teaching and learning practices. Attendees will participate in a series of small group breakout sessions where they will be given an overview of AI tools by a TLT or ITLD representative and review classroom applications.
Practical Uses of AI in the Classroom: Examples from the AI-Endorsement Exemplar Panel
Date: 4/16/26, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
This session will feature faculty panelists and a moderator who participated in the second cohort of the AI-Enhanced Pedagogy Provost Endorsement. Panelists will share their experiences with identifying skills that remain irreplaceable by AI, using AI to support student learning objectives, and designing assignments that foster ethical AI use and professional readiness.
Critical Thinking for Assessment Scaffolding in the Age of AI: Faculty Examples from the AI in Action Program
Date: 4/17/26, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
This session will feature faculty examples of assessments redesigned during the pilot program of “AI in Action: Assessment Edition.” Examples will demonstrate the application of various strategies for designing both “AI-resistant” and “AI-inclusive” assessments. The showcased examples will illustrate concrete design strategies, lessons learned, and practical takeaways faculty can apply in their own courses.
Prep and Practice
In these sessions, faculty will have opportunities to integrate core instructional technologies into their course designs.
Preparing your Penn State Syllabus
Dates: Wednesday, 1/7, 2-3 p.m. and Thursday, 1/8, 11 am – 12 pm
TLT and the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence (SITE) are hosting a session focused on supporting faculty in the preparation of their Penn State Syllabus. It will review PSU syllabus requirements and recommendations, best practices for communicating course content on syllabi, and example syllabus language. We will also discuss strategies for leveraging Canvas to share your syllabus.
Introduction to Canvas
Dates: Tuesday, 1/6, 5:30 – 7:30 pm and Wednesday, 1/7, 10 am – 12 pm
Faculty new to Penn State are invited to join IT Learning and Development (ITLD) and Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) for a session focusing on a Canvas Introduction. The Canvas Introduction includes research-based best practices with the utilization of Canvas, setting up your Canvas course via modules, creating assignments for electronic submission of work, setting up your gradebook, how to give meaningful feedback in Canvas along with numerical grades.
Learning Tool Exploration and General Sessions
Faculty will have the opportunity to preview various popular learning technologies available to enhance instruction at PSU. Some of the sessions include demos in breakout rooms led by learning designers. General sessions target timely and important teaching with technology topics.
Fostering Student Connection with Technology
Dates: 2/3/26 and 2/4/26, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
The first step toward an engaging class is connection and in this session we will explore how the intentional use of technology can help strengthen relationships by centering on community, collaboration, instructor visibility, and opportunities for showcasing student work. The focus will be on practical applications including using technology-based icebreakers, video-based discussions, check for understanding paired with discussion, shared documents and whiteboards, digital galleries of student work, and more. Faculty will leave with concrete ideas they can immediately apply to make their courses more connected, inclusive, and community-driven.
Learning Tool Exploration: Technologies for Digital Accessibility
Dates: 2/17/26 and 2/18/26, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Participants will explore Penn State-approved technologies and strategies that can be used to help ensure their digital course materials (Canvas pages, PowerPoints, multimedia, documents, etc.) are accessible. During the session, presenters will demonstrate how generative AI can be used to support accessibility reviews and resources available to support faculty with accessibility efforts.
Tips for Collaborative Learning with a Career Readiness Lens
Dates: 3/3/26 and 3/4/26, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
This workshop explores practical strategies for developing collaborative assignments that mirror real-world professional environments. These assignments will be designed to strengthen students’ collaboration skills using technology tools commonly found in today’s workplaces, such as Microsoft Office Suite, Zoom,Google Suite, and Adobe. Guided activities and examples will be provided for designing collaborative activities that promote accountability, communication, leadership, and workplace-aligned skills.
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TwT Resources
After each workshop, all participants receive a follow-up email containing session resources.
Provost Endorsement
Faculty participating in the Embracing Teaching and Learning with Technology for Faculty New to Penn State or the AI-Enhanced Pedagogy: Exploring Generative AI as a Collaborative Partner for Teaching and Learning Provost Endorsement can attend the TwT sessions for credit towards the endorsement. Please visit the Provost Endorsement Program website for more information.
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