This workshop explores Pressing Prompts (https://pressingprompts.org/), an open collection of activities, resources, and pedagogical guidance for higher education instructors bringing AI ethics into their classrooms. Participants will access Pressing Prompts’ topics, activities, and resources, and will then build custom “playlists” that can be exported, shared, and incorporated into courses across disciplines and modalities.
Pressing Prompts (https://pressingprompts.org/) is an open collection of activities, resources, and pedagogical guidance for higher education instructors who are interested in bringing AI ethics into their classrooms. The project invites educators and their students to embrace inquiry and complexity as we collectively navigate our relationships with AI. Whether you’re hopeful AI may accelerate our capabilities and scientific breakthroughs, or you’re fearful AI will exacerbate dehumanization and environmental degradation, the project suggests it is necessary to foreground urgent prompts—or critical questions—about AI. Can we trust AI? Is AI theft? Does AI harm critical thinking? Is AI a spy? These are just some of the questions educators can explore with their students, colleagues, and anyone else who thinks current cultural conversations need more nuanced and critical approaches to understanding AI.
In this workshop, MYFest participants will explore Pressing Prompts’ eleven topics, each of which includes conversation starters, student-centered activities (many with “no-AI” alternatives), and disciplinary extensions. Pressing Prompts is designed for easy adaptation across institutions and instructional contexts (including face-to-face and online modalities). During the workshop, participants will be guided to broadly connect the project to their unique pedagogical goals, and to more specifically reflect on how specific activities can be tailored to their own courses and disciplinary needs. All participants will build custom “playlists” of Pressing Prompts activities that can be easily exported, shared, and incorporated into courses across disciplines and modalities. Everyone will leave the workshop with practical, ready-to-use activities and strategies for implementing Pressing Prompts into their own teaching contexts.
