Data and his brother Lor from Star Trek: Next Generation. Data and Lor are androids who look exactly alike. They are talking to each other - Data has little to no expression, but Lor is gesturing and smiling in a cheeky way.

Join Toby Peterson and the TLC for a guided practice on generative AI (artificial intelligence) and higher education. We will be using the Biggio Center training Teaching with AI as an anchor for our learning and applying the concepts and skills we are exploring to our work here at Clark. Expect to interact with colleagues, share ideas and resources, and support each other as we continue to discover how AI will impact our work as educators.

This guided practice will last the academic year. We will meet monthly (9 sessions total) on Wednesday afternoons from 3 to 5 pm. All sessions will be held remotely on Zoom. Upon completion, full-time faculty will be eligible to apply for 40 hours of PPAC credit, and adjunct faculty will receive a stipend of $1,500. Please register here: AI guided practice

Meeting dates:

October 2

November 6

December 4

January 8

February 5

March 5

April 9

May 7

June 4

About Your Facilitators

Toby Peterson

Toby Peterson has been a faculty member in Clark's English department since 2009. He began as an adjunct, transitioned to full-time temporary, served two years as an outcomes assessment faculty liaison, and earned tenure in 2017. In additional to composition courses, he teaches technical writing, poetry writing, and writing for comics. He was also the recipient of a recent sabbatical to explore the impact of artificial intelligence on the teaching and learning of writing. His findings are collected in the report, "A Bomb that Can Bring Us Together: Supporting Artificial Intelligence Literacy at Clark College." He lives in north Portland with his wife and two sons, an aggressively-friendly dog, and the loudest cat in the Pacific Northwest.

Lindsey Schuhmacher

Lindsey sitting on a couch in the TLC holding a pillow that says "we can do hard things." Lindsey is a middle aged white woman of size with red hair in a bun, wearing a button up shirt under a sweater, jeans, and converse shoes.

Lindsey is the Program Manager of the Teaching and Learning Center and has over 16 years of college teaching experience, including 10 years in the Clark English department and 3.5 years as an instructional designer on the Clark eLearning team. Lindsey is also the creator of the community-engaged learning Capstone "Embracing Size Diversity" at Portland State University. She has spent the last year exploring AI and its implications for higher education, with an emphasis on both reducing harm and embracing potential, and is looking forward to learning more through this community. Lindsey has been married for 18 years (say what?!), and is a mom of 3 beautiful boys. She loves Star Trek, Agatha Christie novels, hot cups of tea, and watching Lionel Messi, Angel Di Maria, and Kamal Miller play soccer.

Accommodations

If you need an accommodation due to a disability to fully participate in this event, please contact Clark College's Human Resources office by phone at 360-992-2105 or by email: hr@clark.edu. If you need ASL interpretation, please contact Angela Childers at achilders@clark.edu.