The Teaching Professor Conference on
AI in Education
On-demand Through February 17, 2025
Plenary Sessions
Practical Strategies for AI and Assessment
Presented by Leon Furze
Generative Artificial Intelligence has impacted education and assessment from K-12 to Tertiary, but across the world educators have responded proactively and with open minds. This session introduces the AI Assessment Scale (AIAS): a framework designed to help educators and students use AI appropriately and transparently. Leon Furze will discuss practical ways educators have incorporated the AIAS into their programs and how AI can be used as part of the assessment process.
Leon Furze is an international consultant, author, and speaker with over fifteen years of experience in secondary and tertiary education and leadership. Furze is studying his PhD in the implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence on writing instruction and education. He has held roles at multiple levels of school and board leadership, including Director of Teaching and Learning, Head of English, and eLearning. Furze is a Non-Executive Director on the board of Young Change Agents and Reframing Autism, and a member of Council for the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English. He has published dozens of books, articles and courses, with his most recent publications, Practical Reading Strategies and Practical Writing Strategies reaching an international audience. Through consultancy and advisory work, Leon helps educators understand the implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence in education.
Teaching and Thinking with AI
Presented by
José Antonio Bowen
The excitement (and panic) surrounding AI is shattering expectations around assignments, assessment, class preparation and attendance, while challenging us to build more future-proof and inclusive classrooms. AI is rapidly changing how humans work and think. AI is also changing how we think about average. If AI can produce consistent “C” work than we need to update our policies and grading. AI is even changing creativity. Together, we will examine the skills and curriculum that will matter most in this new age, why articulation of “quality” is essential and what policies and practices improve motivation and decrease cheating. Attendees will learn practical techniques to transform assignments and assessments.
José Antonio Bowen has won teaching awards at Stanford and Georgetown, was Dean at Miami and Southern Methodist University and President of Goucher College. He has written over 100 scholarly articles and has appeared as a musician with Stan Getz, Bobby McFerrin, and others. He is the author of Teaching Naked (2012, the winner of the Ness Award for Best Book on Higher Education), Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers using Relationships, Resilience and Reflection (2021) and Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning with C. Edward Watson (2024). Stanford honored him as a Distinguished Alumni Scholar (2010) and he has presented keynotes and workshops at more than 400 campuses and conferences in 46 states and 20 countries around the world. In 2018, he was awarded the Ernest L. Boyer Award (for significant contributions to American higher education). He is now a senior fellow for the American Association of Colleges and Universities and also does innovation and inclusion consulting for a wide variety of Fortune 500 companies.