Hastings College

Resources for "Teaching, Learning, and Technology"

This page provides a central location for all of the resources associated with the November 4, 2025 AI workshops at Hastings College, offered by Dr. Carolyn Speer of Wichita State University.

Faculty and Staff Resources

Useful Articles

• Explained: Generative AI
• Explained: Agentic AI
• Summary of AAC&U Survey on Generative AI Tools
• AI and Threats to Academic Integrity, What to Do
• Generative AI's Environmental Impact 
• How Data Centers Actually Work
• Generative AI, the American Worker, and the Future of Work
• Ethical Challenges and Solutions of Generative AI: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
• Academic Integrity in the Age of AI
• No, ChatGPT Isn't 'Making Us Stupid," But There is Still Reason to Worry

Assets for the Presentation

• Slides: Faculty Presentation
• Exercise #1 Topics: Core Learning
• Exercise #2 Topics: Assignment Scenarios
• Decision Tree
• Digital Version of Decision Tree
• Example Generative AI Assignments 

Student Resources

Useful Articles

• All the articles included above for faculty are appropriate for students as well
• How Students Should -- And Shouldn't -- Use Artificial Intelligence
• University Students Offload Critical Thinking, and Other Hard Work, to AI 

Assets for the Presentation

• Slides: Student Presentation
• Exercise #1: What Does Learning Feel Like?
• Exercise #2: To Use or Not to Use?
• Student Decision Tree
• Digital Version of Decision Tree

Campus Support

Hastings College has many dedicated offices and individuals committed to the success of the entire campus community. Have a question or concern? Reach out to:

• Tessla Michael and the Studio 200 team
• Bri Weichel and the Perkins Library team
• Dr. Jesse Weiss, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
• Your advisor
• Your professors

Statement on Generative AI Use

This project, including the faculty and student presentations, decision-tree activities, reflection exercises, scenario handouts, and supporting visuals, was developed through a fourteen-hour design collaboration between Dr. Carolyn Speer and a generative AI assistant (ChatGPT-5). Dr. Speer directed the conceptual, pedagogical, and ethical dimensions of both sessions, while the AI assisted with drafting, organization, formatting, coding, and image generation.

The AI was used to:

• Draft, revise, and format teaching materials such as facilitator notes, activity instructions, and reflection prompts.

• Code simple interactive tools, including the faculty and student printable decision trees and related HTML-based self-check activities.

• Generate custom images for presentation slides (e.g., the pencil cup, notebook, Van Gogh image of a building, climbing and pyramid visuals) and assist with consistency of color and design.

• Support slide layout and aesthetic refinement through Microsoft Copilot Pro.

All intellectual framing, including the structure, learning outcomes, key themes (“Learning is Human” and “Teaching is Human”), and the integration of Hastings-specific context, originated with Dr. Speer. She also made all final editorial, visual, and pedagogical decisions.

Use of AI accelerated technical and production tasks, reducing what would likely have required 35–40 hours of traditional preparation (research, writing, coding, layout, and graphic creation) to approximately 14 hours of guided, human-directed collaboration.

This summary was written by ChatGPT-5 and reviewed, edited, and approved by Dr. Carolyn Speer.