CETLI Events Calendar

Limiting electronic devices in class has become an increasingly popular way to improve student focus and create community. Michele Margolis of Political Science and Dominique Ruggieri from Public Health will begin this conversation by talking about how they have limited device use in class, what the results have been and how they have responded to student pushback […]

Getting students off of Penn’s campus is a powerful way to help them see a much wider perspective on class materials, but to get students to learn from these outings, instructors have to plan carefully. In this session Emily Steiner of English and Caroline Jones of Anthropology will talk about their experiences leading first-year seminar field trips […]

To use AI effectively, students must use their own judgment and discernment to evaluate results and develop effective prompting strategies. Ben Sirolly of Law and Jennifer Valerio of GSE will start this conversation by talking about how they help students develop those skills through reflection assignments. 

Many generative AI platforms now enable users to create custom chatbots without computer programming experience. Custom bots are useful for repeatable tasks or interactions that depend on a specific knowledge base or behavior. Participants will learn how to build, test, and modify a custom bot to assist with a teaching-related task using a Penn-licensed AI tool.  Please bring a laptop to participate in this hands-on session. 

In-class collaborations allow students to learn from each other, but students often turn to AI for answers rather than one another. Sudeep Bhatia from Psychology and Bob Johnson of Physics will kick off this conversation about how student interaction can include AI without shutting down the peer-to-peer learning process. 

Students pursuing professional degrees in the health sciences will use AI in their professional life. Yet clinical instructors are anxious that overreliance on AI in their clinical education will result in students’ inability to use their own judgement. In this conversation, clinical instructors from Nursing and PSOM will talk about their own strategies as well […]

In the contentious climate of 2026, students often avoid discussing material which they perceive as controversial. Dennis Culhane of SP2 and Hannah Feldman of History of Art will start this conversation by sharing their own strategies for getting students to discuss topics on which students might disagree. 

Feedback is crucial to improving student writing, but students often don’t seem to take advantage of it.  Herman Beavers from English and Jessica Simon of Law will begin the discussion by talking about how they craft feedback so that students are motivated and able to improve. 

Encouraging students to work together across several class sessions can be challenging but, under the right conditions, allows students to learn from each other in ways that bring academic work to life.  In this conversation, Fritz Breithaupt of FIGS and Heather Sharkey of MELC will begin by describing how they have structured and encouraged these multi-session projects to […]