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Date
Friday April 17, 2026
Time
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location
Virtual Event, Online Only
Tags
Academic Excellence Framework (AEF)
Teaching with Technology
AI in 45: AI in the Classroom: Practical Strategies to Enhance Learning Without Replacing Teaching

This interactive session introduces City Colleges faculty to practical, ethical, and accessible ways to use Generative AI to enhance teaching and learning. Rather than replacing instruction, Generative AI is presented as a support tool for instructional design, student engagement, feedback, and accessibility. Faculty will explore how AI can assist with lesson planning, discussion prompts, scaffolding complex concepts, and creating UDL-aligned learning supports while maintaining academic integrity.

Participants will engage in hands-on activities using ChatGPT or another tool to redesign a classroom task, create student-facing prompts, and develop guidelines for appropriate AI use in their courses. The session also addresses common faculty concerns, including student misuse of AI and how to communicate expectations clearly.

Yasmin Yasi

Professor Yasi teaches Child Development at Kennedy-King College. She also taught ESL and Developmental English courses, and worked as a preschool teacher in international schools in Singapore for 15 years. Her interest in AI developed organically while teaching ESL, when she noticed students were already using AI tools to support their writing. Rather than discouraging it, Professor Yasi began exploring how AI could be used productively and ethically to enhance learning. 

Click here for more: https://cccedu.zoom.us/meeting/register/iAUaExl4T0ur_ra4w10YSw

The Academic Excellence Framework (AEF) clearly prioritizes the skills, activities, initiatives, roles, and goals that directly support consistently strong teaching and learning at City Colleges of Chicago.