CONVERSATION SERIES: BECOMING AN ANTI-RACIST EDUCATOR | 3 PART SERIES BEGINS JAN 27th
2023-01-27 09:30 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
CONVERSATION SERIES: BECOMING AN ANTI-RACIST EDUCATOR
The Winter Quarter dates are January 27, February 3, and February 9 from 9:30-11:30 a.m.
The CEILS Becoming an Anti-racist Educator Conversation Series reflects and creates space for discussion of one’s own racial identity development and how racial identity and other social identities impact our learning environments. With colleagues, participants in these discussions will spend intentional time on student-centered, inclusive and equitable, and anti-racist action strategies that can be implemented in the classroom and laboratory learning environments to work against the impacts of racism.
Feedback from a recent participant:
“Before this series, I would have been hesitant to interrupt a microaggression – due to not knowing if it was a big deal and feeling uncomfortable. Now I realize it’s important to say something, even if I’m not sure exactly what to say.” and “I plan to mitigate the impacts of racism in higher ed by including historically underrepresented and minority student voices in the planning process for curriculum”
*Our upcoming workshops are open to instructors, faculty, and teaching postdocs who teach courses in the Life and Physical Sciences. There will be future offerings for graduate students, dates TBD.*
RSVP FOR WINTER QUARTER

Ed Talks @CEILS: Learning Community Meetings
2023-02-01 15:00 - 16:00, 2023-02-08 15:00 - 16:00 | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join us as we explore the latest high quality STEM Education Research studies and how to implement effective and inclusive teaching. We welcome guest speakers from UCLA and other academic institutions to share their research and lead small group discussions with our teaching and learning community. Faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and anyone interested in STEM education research are welcome to participate
Winter 2023 Dates: February 1, 8, and 15 (3-4pm) in Terasaki 1100

Ed Talks @CEILS: Learning Community Meetings
2023-02-15 15:00 - 16:00 | 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, 1100 Terasaki Life Sciences Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join us as we explore the latest high quality STEM Education Research studies and how to implement effective and inclusive teaching. We welcome guest speakers from UCLA and other academic institutions to share their research and lead small group discussions with our teaching and learning community. Faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and anyone interested in STEM education research are welcome to participate.
Winter 2023 Dates: February 1, 8, and 15 (3-4pm) in Terasaki 1100

“When disabilities make school harder, you don’t get to do all the extras:” Participation in high-impact extracurriculars for students with disabilities
2023-04-12 15:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
“When disabilities make school harder, you don’t get to do all the extras:” Participation in high-impact extracurriculars for students with disabilities
Talk Description: High-impact practices are educational experiences, such as undergraduate research experiences, that can support undergraduate student retention. This talk will share findings from a recent national survey, exploring how the extracurricular nature of many high-impact practices may disproportionately prevent STEM students with disabilities from fully benefiting from these experiences.
Emma Goodwin Bio: After completing her B.S. in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics at UCLA, Emma worked as a non-student teaching assistant in the MIMG Research Immersion Laboratory courses and was introduced to biology education research through CEILs. These experiences led her to pursue her PhD in Biology Education Research at Portland State University, and she is currently an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in STEM Education Research at Arizona State University.
About ED Talks @CEILS: Learning Community Meetings: Join us as we explore the latest high quality STEM Education Research studies and how to implement effective and inclusive teaching. We welcome guest speakers from UCLA and other academic institutions to share their research and lead small group discussions with our teaching and learning community. Faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and anyone interested in STEM education research are welcome to participate.

Webs of Science: Mentor Networks Influence Social Integration into STEM Careers
2023-04-13 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom
Webs of Science: Mentor Networks Influence Social Integration into STEM Careers
Paul Hernandez, PhD, Texas A&M University
Thursday, April 13th, 2023, 9 am PT
Event Zoom Link | Event flyer

UC Wide Academic Integrity Virtual Symposium
2023-04-17 08:00 - 2023-04-21 17:00 | Zoom
UC Wide Academic Integrity Virtual Symposium
RSVP Today
The integrity of the teaching and learning mission of universities is facing a challenge unlike those experienced in the past with the growth in companies and people who will complete academic work on behalf of students and the launch of generative artificial intelligence that provides answers and assignments in a matter of seconds. We cannot keep teaching, learning, and assessing as we did in the 20th century, and we can’t ignore our societal obligation to ensure that our degrees are accurate representations of a graduate’s knowledge and skills.
The symposium, sponsored and organized by the Academic Integrity Office at UC San Diego, is open for all University of California system members and is free of charge. Attend one or more of the live sessions. Any questions should be directed to the symposium organizers at integrity@ucsd.edu.

"A Justice Partnership for Course Innovation" featuring Siobhan Braybrook and the Life Sciences Liberation Team | Ed Talks & Happy Hour
2023-04-19 15:00 - 18:00 | UCLA
In this project, we are working to imagine and create a more liberated introductory life science classroom. We chose to take a radical path to inclusive course design by engaging in an authentic and meaningful approach we call a Justice Partnership; our team, Life Sciences Liberation (‘LS Lib’), centers and empowers Black womxn-identifying students. Our process is a pedagogical partnership and is grounded in principles of design justice. Come hear about our process and ongoing work!
Pedagogical partnerships: Instructor-student partnerships that draw on student experiential knowledge to challenge institutional norms & practices, while also helping them navigate such a system (Cook-Sather et al, 2020).
Design justice: an approach to design that centers marginalized communities and aims explicitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities (Costanza-Chock, 2020).

Following the Ed Talks, we will be having Happy Hour in the Hershey Hall Front Courtyard at 4pm!

Eudaimonia Awards 2023 Ceremony presented by the UCLA Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center & the MindWell Team
2023-04-20 19:00 - 20:30 | James West Alumni Center
The Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center at UCLA & the MindWell team invites you to our annual Eudaimonia Awards 2023 Ceremony!
April 20 | 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Food and refreshments will be served!
James West Alumni Center (Collins Conference Room and Patio), Los Angeles, CA 90095).
RSVP HERE

Dr. Dacher Keltner will receive a special Eudaimonia Award and share a keynote address about Awe – Connecting to the Greater Good. Dr. Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the faculty director of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. A renowned expert in the science of human emotion, Dr. Keltner studies compassion and awe, how we express emotion, and how emotions guide our moral identities and search for meaning. His research interests also span issues of power, status, inequality, and social class. He is the author of The Power Paradox and the bestselling book Born to Be Good, and the coeditor of The Compassionate Instinct. His latest book, Awe, is a national bestseller. Dr. Keltner’s address will be followed by a Q&A session, and an award ceremony, during which we will learn about the work of UCLA Bruins who have reflected the ideals of Eudaimonia by living a life of purpose and meaning with commitment to the greater good.

CIRTL@UCLA presents Teaching-As-Research Day
2023-04-26 12:00 - 17:00 | UCLA
CIRTL@UCLA is excited to announce the first ever Teaching as Research Day held on April 26 from 12-5pm PST. TAR Day will include several events including a watch party luncheon for the CIRTL Network TAR Presentations from 12-1:30, a social, games, and conversation hour from 1:30-3, and a series of lightning talks followed by a poster session and happy hour reception from 3-5. You are welcome to come for some of the time or stay the whole day- whatever works with your schedule! RSVP here!
If you would like to present your TAR project, there are 3 possible ways you could do it (AND you can do all three if you want!)

Sign up for the all-network presentations (12-1:30). You can learn more and sign up here.
Present a poster at the CEILS Ed Talks Poster Session (4-5).
Present a lightning talk before the poster session (3-4). If you are presenting a poster, you also have the option to present a 5-10 minute talk before the session starts to garner interest in your project and invite folks to visit and engage with more questions. Ideally folks presenting a lightning talk will also present a poster, but if you are unable to make the poster session and still want to present to an audience at UCLA, you are welcome to give a lightning talk. Register to present a poster and/or lightning talk here.

“Reimagined Critical Pedagogy: Resistance and Solidarity in Language Classrooms” conference
2023-04-28 - 2023-04-29
“Reimagined Critical Pedagogy: Resistance and Solidarity in Language Classrooms” conference
The Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms (EPIC) Program, an initiative from the UCLA Division of Humanities, is pleased to host the “Reimagined Critical Pedagogy: Resistance and Solidarity in Language Classrooms” conference focused on language pedagogy. Conference sessions will be held both in person and remotely on Friday, April 28th and remotely on Saturday, April 29th, 2023. The keynote speaker will be Professor Henry A. Giroux (McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in English and Cultural Studies, Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy).
More information can be found on the website. The deadline for submissions is Thursday, March 31, 2023. For questions, please contact epic@humnet.ucla.edu.

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee | Book Club, Chapters 1 - 3
2023-05-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Terasaki Life Sciences 5100
Heather McGhee Book Talk
& CEILS Book Club

Dear Colleagues,

I’d like to invite you to join me in welcoming Heather McGhee to our beautiful campus for a thought-provoking evening, including a discussion of her book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. This New York Times Bestseller, longlisted for the National Book Award has been called “One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color”.

The book talk, followed by Q & A with the author, will take place at the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) on Thursday, June 1st at 5:30 – 6:30 followed by a reception.

In preparation for this book talk, the Center for Education Innovation and Learning in the Sciences (CEILS) is hosting a book club to discuss The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. We will read and discuss the book in four sections. Please feel free to drop in as your schedule allows. The book club dates are:

Tuesday, May 2, Noon – 1pm | Chapters 1-3 | Terasaki Life Sciences 5100
Thursday, May 11, Noon – 1pm | Chapters 4 & 5 | Terasaki Life Sciences 1100
Friday, May 19, Noon – 1pm | Chapters 6-8 | Terasaki Life Sciences 1100
Friday, May 26, Noon – 1pm | Chapters 9 & 10 | Terasaki Life Sciences 1100

To RSVP for the May book club dates and book talk, please click here.

We invite you to use the Discussion Guide as you read the book: DISCUSSION GUIDE | Heather McGhee.

We look forward to having you join us for this exciting visit.

Best wishes,
Tracy
*************************************************
Tracy Johnson
Keith and Cecilia Terasaki Presidential Endowed Chair
Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Dean, Life Sciences, UCLA College

About Heather McGhee
Heather designs and promotes solutions to inequality in America. Over her career in public policy, Heather has crafted legislation, testified before Congress and helped shape presidential campaign platforms. Her book The Sum of Us: WhatRacism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together spent 10 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was longlisted for the National Book Award and Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. The New York Times called it, “The book that should change how progressives talk about race.” and the Chicago Tribune said, “Required reading to move thecountry forward…”. It is a Washington Post and TIME Magazine Must-Read Book of 2021. The paperback version will be out in February 2022. The Sum of Us will be adapted into a Spotify podcast by Higher Ground, the production company of Barack and Michelle Obama in June 2022, and into a young adult readers’ version by Random House Children’s in 2023.

Heather is an educator, serving currently as a Visiting Lecturer in Urban Studies at the City University of New York’s School of Labor and Urban Studies. She has also held visiting positions at Yale University’s Brady-Johnson Grand Strategy Program andthe University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. She is the recipient of honorary degrees from Muhlenberg College, Niagara University, and CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy.

For nearly two decades, Heather helped build the non-partisan “think and do” tank Demos, serving four years as president.Under McGhee’s leadership, Demos moved their original idea for “debt-free college” into the center of the 2016 presidential debate, argued before the Supreme Court to protect voting rights in January 2018, helped win pro-voter reforms in five states over two years, provided expert testimony to Congressional committees, including a Supreme Court confirmation hearing in 2017, and led the research campaigns behind successful wage increases for low-paid workers on federal contracts, as well as at McDonalds, Walmart and other chain retailers.

As an executive, McGhee transformed Demos on multiple levels. She led a successful strategic planning and rebranding process. She designed a Racial Equity Organizational Transformation which led to an increase in staff racial diversity (from27 percent people of color to 60 percent in four years), an original racial equity curriculum for staff professional development and a complete overhaul of the organization’s research, litigation and campaign strategies using a racial equity lens. McGhee also nearly doubled the organizational budget in four years. A strong coalition-builder and trustedcross-movement leader, McGhee deepened Demos’ influence through new networks and collaborations inside and outside the Beltway.

An influential voice in the media and a former NBC contributor, McGhee regularly appears on NBC’s Meet the Press andMSNBC’s Morning Joe, Deadline White House and All In. Her 2020 TED talk is entitled “Racism Has a Cost for Everyone”. She has shared her opinions, writing and research in numerous outlets, including the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Politico and National Public Radio. McGhee’s conversation on a C-SPAN program in 2016with a white man who asked for her help to overcome his racial prejudice went viral, receiving more than 10 million views and sparking wide media coverage that included a New York Times op-ed, a New Yorker piece and a CNN town hall. Inspring 2018, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz asked McGhee to advise the company as it designed an anti-bias training for 250,000 employees in the wake of the unjust arrest of two black men in a Philadelphia store. McGhee wrote a report with recommendations for how Starbucks can apply a racial equity lens to their businesses, and how other companies both large and small can benefit from doing the same.

McGhee also played a leadership role in steering the historic Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and was one of the key advocates credited for the adoption of the Volcker Rule.

She holds a B.A. in American Studies from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law,. McGhee is the chair of the board of Color Of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, and alsoserves on the boards of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Open Society Foundations’ US Programs and Demos.

For more information, please visit www.heathermcghee.com and follow Heather on Twitter: @hmcghee and Instagram and Facebook: @HeatherCMcGhee

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Unlocking Student Potential Through Transformative Learning Webinar
2023-05-03 09:00 - 10:00 | Online
You are warmly invited to attend an overview of Qedex’s Transformative Educator Program (TEP) inspired by the Transformative Learning initiative at the University of Central Oklahoma and its positive impact on faculty, student retention rates, and student success in the classroom & workplace.
May 3rd (9AM PT, 10AM MT, 11AM CT, 12PM ET) | 50 minutes
As higher education grapples with a shifting student demographic, increased numbers of adjunct faculty, and growing skepticism about the value of a college degree, we see the TEP as a timely, effective, affordable, and accessible way to address these challenges. Participants will receive supporting data, take-away resources to support instructors on your campus, and details about upcoming faculty cohorts in the TE Program which includes access to MERLOT’s e-portfolio platform.
Transformative Learning has been around for decades (Mezirow, 1978; Cranton, 2006) but there’s been a renewal of interest in recent years as a result of measurable impacts that demonstrate its capacity to advance teaching and learning (in the US and abroad).

REGISTER HERE:
https://www.qedex.org/transforming-education/
Presenters:
Jeff King
Assistant Vice President of Transformative Learning,
University of Central Oklahoma
Katherine Whitaker, Dean, School of Business and Entrepreneurship, Division of Academic Affairs,
Voorhees University
Linda Bloomberg, Associate Director, Faculty Support and Development,
Sanford College of Education, National University
Stuart Blacklock, CEO, Qedex
Facilitator:
Hoag Holmgren, Chief Innovation Officer, Qedex

Kind regards,
Hoag Holmgren
www.qedex.org

Freedom to Learn: Banned Book Reading for the National Day of Action
2023-05-03 15:00 - 16:30 | Boyer 159
On Wednesday, May 3rd, join CEILS for Freedom to Learn: Banned Book Reading for the National Day of Action from 3 – 4:30pm in Boyer 159. We will be reading excerpts from Stamped (For Kids) by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi and This is Your Time by Ruby Bridges and discussing the impact of banned books on our current and future students. Light refreshments to follow.

Examining the U.S. premed path as an example of discriminatory design
2023-05-11 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom
Examining the U.S. premed path as an example of discriminatory design
Barret Michalec, PhD, Arizona State University
Thursday, May 11th, 2023, 9 am PT
Event Zoom Link | Event flyer

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee | Book Club, Chapters 4 & 5
2023-05-11 16:00 - 17:00 | Terasaki Life Sciences 1100
Dear Colleagues,

I’d like to invite you to join me in welcoming Heather McGhee to our beautiful campus for a thought-provoking evening, including a discussion of her book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. This New York Times Bestseller, longlisted for the National Book Award has been called “One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color”.

The book talk, followed by Q & A with the author, will take place at the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) on Thursday, June 1st at 5:30 – 6:30 followed by a reception.

In preparation for this book talk, the Center for Education Innovation and Learning in the Sciences (CEILS) is hosting a book club to discuss The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. We will read and discuss the book in four sections. Please feel free to drop in as your schedule allows. The book club dates are:

Tuesday, May 2, Noon – 1pm | Chapters 1-3 | Terasaki Life Sciences 5100
Thursday, May 11, Noon – 1pm | Chapters 4 & 5 | Terasaki Life Sciences 1100
Friday, May 19, Noon – 1pm | Chapters 6-8 | Terasaki Life Sciences 1100
Friday, May 26, Noon – 1pm | Chapters 9 & 10 | Terasaki Life Sciences 1100

To RSVP for the May book club dates and book talk, please click here.

We invite you to use the Discussion Guide as you read the book: DISCUSSION GUIDE | Heather McGhee.

We look forward to having you join us for this exciting visit.

Best wishes,
Tracy
*************************************************
Tracy Johnson
Keith and Cecilia Terasaki Presidential Endowed Chair
Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Dean, Life Sciences, UCLA College

About Heather McGhee
Heather designs and promotes solutions to inequality in America. Over her career in public policy, Heather has crafted legislation, testified before Congress and helped shape presidential campaign platforms. Her book The Sum of Us: WhatRacism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together spent 10 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was longlisted for the National Book Award and Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. The New York Times called it, “The book that should change how progressives talk about race.” and the Chicago Tribune said, “Required reading to move thecountry forward…”. It is a Washington Post and TIME Magazine Must-Read Book of 2021. The paperback version will be out in February 2022. The Sum of Us will be adapted into a Spotify podcast by Higher Ground, the production company of Barack and Michelle Obama in June 2022, and into a young adult readers’ version by Random House Children’s in 2023.

Heather is an educator, serving currently as a Visiting Lecturer in Urban Studies at the City University of New York’s School of Labor and Urban Studies. She has also held visiting positions at Yale University’s Brady-Johnson Grand Strategy Program andthe University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. She is the recipient of honorary degrees from Muhlenberg College, Niagara University, and CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy.

For nearly two decades, Heather helped build the non-partisan “think and do” tank Demos, serving four years as president.Under McGhee’s leadership, Demos moved their original idea for “debt-free college” into the center of the 2016 presidential debate, argued before the Supreme Court to protect voting rights in January 2018, helped win pro-voter reforms in five states over two years, provided expert testimony to Congressional committees, including a Supreme Court confirmation hearing in 2017, and led the research campaigns behind successful wage increases for low-paid workers on federal contracts, as well as at McDonalds, Walmart and other chain retailers.

As an executive, McGhee transformed Demos on multiple levels. She led a successful strategic planning and rebranding process. She designed a Racial Equity Organizational Transformation which led to an increase in staff racial diversity (from27 percent people of color to 60 percent in four years), an original racial equity curriculum for staff professional development and a complete overhaul of the organization’s research, litigation and campaign strategies using a racial equity lens. McGhee also nearly doubled the organizational budget in four years. A strong coalition-builder and trustedcross-movement leader, McGhee deepened Demos’ influence through new networks and collaborations inside and outside the Beltway.

An influential voice in the media and a former NBC contributor, McGhee regularly appears on NBC’s Meet the Press andMSNBC’s Morning Joe, Deadline White House and All In. Her 2020 TED talk is entitled “Racism Has a Cost for Everyone”. She has shared her opinions, writing and research in numerous outlets, including the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Politico and National Public Radio. McGhee’s conversation on a C-SPAN program in 2016with a white man who asked for her help to overcome his racial prejudice went viral, receiving more than 10 million views and sparking wide media coverage that included a New York Times op-ed, a New Yorker piece and a CNN town hall. Inspring 2018, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz asked McGhee to advise the company as it designed an anti-bias training for 250,000 employees in the wake of the unjust arrest of two black men in a Philadelphia store. McGhee wrote a report with recommendations for how Starbucks can apply a racial equity lens to their businesses, and how other companies both large and small can benefit from doing the same.

McGhee also played a leadership role in steering the historic Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and was one of the key advocates credited for the adoption of the Volcker Rule.

She holds a B.A. in American Studies from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law,. McGhee is the chair of the board of Color Of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization, and alsoserves on the boards of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Open Society Foundations’ US Programs and Demos.

For more information, please visit www.heathermcghee.com and follow Heather on Twitter: @hmcghee and Instagram and Facebook: @HeatherCMcGhee

AI in Action: Flash Talks on AI Use in the Classroom
2023-05-12 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
Session Information
Date: Friday, May 12
Time: 2pm – 3:30pm PT
Location: Zoom 🌟 Register here for Zoom link 🌟

Session Description
Join us for a series of 5-minute flash talks by faculty and graduate & undergrad students discussing the potential uses of generative AI in teaching and learning. This event aims to explore the practical implications of AI technology and will provide attendees with an opportunity to engage with speakers and ask questions about their use of ChatGPT and other generative AI technology in their classrooms.
Panelists:

Nushrat “Esha” Esha, Undergraduate student, WI+RE

Logan Juliano, Writing Programs Continuing Lecturer | From Lesson Planning to Classroom Success: Personalized Chatbots for Instructors and Students

Andrew Lee, Ph.D. Student in Psychology | What ChatGPT Has (and Has Not) Learned–or ChatGPT Is a Team Problem for Students and Educators Alike

Gaston Pfluegl, Academic Administrator and Lab Director for the Life Sciences Core | Recalibrating Grade Distribution to Elevate Peer Review for Evaluating Learning

Laurel Westrup, Writing Programs Continuing Lecturer | Co-writing with ChatGPT: A Remixed Assignment

Session facilitated by: EPIC, CEILS, CAT, OTL, and COE

ChatGPT for Programming: Exploring AI as a Potential Equity-Lever for Learning to Code?
2023-05-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Online
Session Information
Date: Monday, May 15
Time: 12pm – 1:30pm PT
Location: Zoom (Register for Zoom link)

Session Description
How can we leverage AI to support authentic learning while also mitigating potential harm to learning? This is a national conversation happening across higher education, and the applications vary across disciplines. When it comes to programming, there is a lot of potential for supporting student learning-​- ​helping students understand why their code might be incorrect, interpreting and providing documentation on lines of code, and improving student code by making it more complex or more streamlined depending on the goal​ — just to name a few examples.​ ​L​ive virtual ​1:1 ​support​ via ChatGPT and other similar tools​ is ​now ​available 24-7 and ​accessible to all students, regardless of their financial means​.​ In this modern age of AI, how can we best leverage these new and emerging tools to support all students (in particular, those who may need extra help)? How do we coach students on how to interact with AI responsibly and in a way that deepens their learning (and does not undermine it)?
Presenters:
William Stein, CEO of SageMath and CoCalc.com will present on CoCalc’s AI tool and data collected on how students engage with that tool. Sharmila Venugopal,Assistant Adjunct Professor for Integrative Biology and Physiology will the Life Sciences Core will share her experiences piloting activities that ask students to engage with ChatGPT to compare and contrast their debugging skills with the AI generated responses.

Session facilitated by: Jess Gregg, Senior Associate Director for the Center for Education Innovation and Learning in the Sciences (CEILS). Contact Jess at jessgregg@ceils.ucla.edu with any questions.

Course Design Opportunities with AI
2023-05-16 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
Course Design Opportunities with AI

Join us to explore some of the ways to leverage AI to find resources, design assignments, give students feedback and improve student writing. This event is one of many events hosted during the month of May on “AI in Action: Exploring AI’s Potential in Teaching and Learning”.

Monday, May 16th, 10 – 11am on Zoom

Calendar invites containing a Zoom link will be sent to those who register for the May 16th workshop by completing this form.

Event organizer: UCLA Online Teaching and Learning.
Please email us at contact@online.ucla.edu if you have any questions.

Special Seminar: Research In Chemical Education And STEM Pedagogy: Dr. Jennifer Casey
2023-05-16 16:00 - 17:00 | Mani L. Bhaumik Centennial Collaboratory
Special Seminar: Research In Chemical Education And STEM Pedagogy: Dr. Jennifer Casey
You are invited to join this upcoming seminar by Dr. Jennifer Casey on Research in Chemical Education and STEM Pedagogy. This event will take place on May 16, 2023 from 4-5pm in the Mani L. Bhaumik Centennial Collaboratory (click link for map). Additional details about the talk are forthcoming and will be available here. We hope to see you there!

A Conversation with AI: Hands-on Demonstration of ChatGPT and Other AI Tools
2023-05-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
Session Information
Date: Wednesday, May 17
Time: 12pm – 1pm PT
Location: Zoom (Register for Zoom link)

Session Description
Many of us have come across AI assisted technology from time to time, like spelling and grammar checks and the suggested words on your smartphone while texting. And some may have used the suggestions from the AI. Here is a chance to see how you can leverage generative AI to help write your syllabus, start lesson planning, and even start a course presentation.
Session facilitated by: Caroline Kong (CAT) and Katie Healey (EPIC & CEILS)

Workshop Goals

Understand the basics of generative AI technology and its potential uses in teaching.

Identify ways to use the generative AI tools to create content for your course, such as learning objectives, policies to include in your syllabus, lesson plans, and slide presentations.

Learn strategies for incorporating generative AI tools into existing teaching practices in a meaningful and effective way.

Reflect on the implications of generative AI technology on the future of education and society at large.

AI Writing Detection: What You Need to Know
2023-05-18 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
Session Information
Date: Thursday, May 18
Time: 10am – 11am PT
Location: Zoom (Register for Zoom link)

Session Description
As generative AI has become more sophisticated, new tools have emerged aiming to detect its use. Join us to learn about some of these AI detection tools, their flaws, and why UCLA has not yet embraced this technology.
Session facilitated by: Bruin Learn CoE

Workshop Goals / Learning Objectives
Learning goals coming soon!

Designing Transparent AI Assignments
2023-05-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
Session Information
Date: Friday, May 19
Time: 11am – 12pm PT
Location: Zoom (Register for Zoom link)

Session Description
In this interactive workshop, participants will learn about the importance of transparency in designing assignments that use generative AI. We’ll explore practical strategies for incorporating ethical considerations and ensuring fairness in AI-based assignments while promoting student engagement and learning outcomes.

Session facilitated by: Lisa Felipe and Katie Healey from EPIC

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together | Book Club, Chapters 6 - 8
2023-05-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Terasaki Life Sciences 1100

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together | Book Club, Chapters 9 & 10
2023-05-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Terasaki Life Sciences 1100

UCLA Life Sciences-wide LGBTQQIP2SAA Mixer
2023-05-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Hershey Hall South Courtyard
The LS-wide LGBTQQIP2SAA Mixer is Friday, March 26th from 4 – 5 PM at the Hershey Hall South Courtyard. This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA EEB Department, the LS Division, and CEILS. This event is meant for faculty, staff, grad students and postdocs in Life Sciences division who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning (one’s sexual or gender identity), intersex, two-spirit, asexual/aromantic/agender/androgynous, or other related identities (i.e., LGBTQIA+).
We ask that everyone please RSVP for the event if you plan on attending so we can get an accurate estimate for food and drinks. The RSVP link is below and is available via QR code in the attached flyer. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me (jcurti3@g.ucla.edu) or Katie Dixie (kdixie@ceils.ucla.edu) if you have any questions.

RSVP Link:
https://tinyurl.com/spring2023mixer

SABER and the American Society for Microbiology presents Microbiology Teaching & Learning Community: Assessments in Biology
2023-05-31 08:00 - 17:00 | Online
SABER and the American Society for Microbiology are teaming up for the second year in a row for a new 7-week webinar series, “Microbiology Teaching & Learning Community: Assessments in Biology”. This series runs May 31 – July 19, and the weekly webinars with a skilled webinar facilitator — including SABER members Miriam Segura-Totten and Bryan Dewsbury! And, it’s more than just a webinar series; we will pair you with participants who have similar interests as you for small group peer mentoring. Not a microbiologist? Don’t let the title dissuade your participation because our topics are broadly applicable across the biological sciences.

This series provides participants with the opportunity to learn about current assessment techniques/topics important to undergraduate STEM educators, share ideas and engage in dialogue with colleagues. Join us for timely and important topics, including: AI and pedagogy, ungrading, transparency for assessments and grading, and the equity-minded classroom.

Through this partnership, SABER members receive the member discounted rate for registration. Prior to registering, email me (rho…@asmusa.org) with your SABER membership info to receive the discount code.

Find your new faculty learning community with this engaging program, read more about the program and register today! Don’t delay, the series starts in only 1 week on May 31!

I’m available for all your questions,
Rachel Horak

What am I actually measuring? The role of validity evidence in STEM education research
2023-06-01 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom
What am I actually measuring? The role of validity evidence in STEM education research
Regis Komperda, PhD, San Diego State University
Thursday, June 1st, 2023, 9 am PT
Event Zoom Link | Event flyer

An Evening with Heather McGhee: Exploring Racism's Price Tag and Building a Prosperous Future Together
2023-06-01 17:30 - 18:30 | California NanoSystems Institute

Creating Connections Symposium on Writing Pedagogy - Generating Text: Teaching, Writing, and Learning in the Age of AI
2023-06-02 10:00 - 13:00 | Powell 186
June 2, 10am-1pm PT in Powell 186 (in-person): Creating Connections Symposium on Writing Pedagogy – Generating Text: Teaching, Writing, and Learning in the Age of AI by Writing Programs/Graduate Certificate in Writing Pedagogy (RSVP coming soon)

The 6th annual Creating Connections symposium on writing pedagogy will take place Friday, June 2nd. Our theme for this year is Generating Text: Teaching, Writing, and Learning in the Age of AI, and this event is intended as a follow-up to the campus-wide “AI in Action” event on May 12th. Our half-day symposium will feature interactive workshops on using ChatGPT and similar technologies throughout the writing process as well as a roundtable discussion on the practical and ethical questions surrounding use of ChatGPT in the writing classroom. The 2023 symposium is intended as an in-person event, but we will provide a Zoom link for those who would like to watch remotely.
