This seven-week workshop course treats generative AI as a subject that needs more than a single technical or promotional account. Each week approaches it through a different lens, building toward a practical intervention grounded in both theory and educational practice.
Course overview
The course contests the idea that widespread access to professorial chatbots makes education obsolete. Instead, it asks how historical, technological, practical, critical, pedagogical, and futurological perspectives change what educators and learners should do with generative AI.
Weekly structure
- Week 1: Introduction and course framework
- Week 2: Historical lens — pathways to AI
- Week 3: Technological lens — large language models and machine learning
- Week 4: Practitioner lens — prompting, tools, and intervention design
- Week 5: Critical lens — alignment, truth, power, and bias
- Week 6: Pedagogical lens — preparing people and machines
- Week 7: Futurological lens — acceleration, manifestos, and the future of education
Course format
Weekly workshops combine short lectures, group discussion, close reading, and design-oriented practice. The course materials below preserve the complete weekly notes and reading lists.
Learning objectives
- Understand generative AI through historical, technological, practitioner, critical, pedagogical, and futurological lenses
- Develop an intervention addressing a pedagogical or social challenge raised by AI
- Respond thoughtfully to practical scenarios involving generative AI in education
Course materials
Lecture notes and workshop materials from this course.