educAIte Spring 2026

The educAIte professional development series includes 2 events per month. In an effort to be as inclusive as possible, one session will be online and one will be in-person at regularly scheduled times when colleagues have reported the greatest availability. Formats and topics are informed by both the expressed interest of Kapiʻolani CC colleagues and the availability and willingness of individuals to facilitate PD.

This hui is focused on planning relevant AI-related professional development experiences for Kapiʻolani CC employees:
Nadine Wolff, Jamie Sickel, Cary Torres, Joy Oehlers, Veronica Ogata, Peter Young, Carl Polley, Youxin Zhang, Li-Anne Delavega, Annie Kūhiō, Joyce Tokuda, Virginia Yoshida, Angela Coloretti McGough, John Johnson, Renee Rose Jorg, Michael Ito, Calvin Tan, Ryan Mudd

Spring 2026 Schedule

In-Person Sessions
(Typically) 4th Friday of the month, 11am - 12pm

AI Semester Jumpstart
Tuesday, January 6 (10 - 11am), Lamakū Learning Center
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New year, new (more efficient) you! Get tips and tricks on leveraging AI to make your Spring 2026 prep the most efficient yet and work productively alongside colleagues to Get. Things. Done!
Facilitators: Cary Torres & John Johnson

Academic Integrity and AI: Practical Strategies to Positively Impact Student Learning
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Friday, January 23 (11am - 12pm), Lamakū Open Flex Space
Many faculty are concerned about academic integrity, and the emergence of generative AI has added new layers of complexity. Rather than focusing solely on enforcement, this session explores practical approaches faculty can use to strengthen academic integrity within their courses. We will discuss AI detection tools and highlight strategies that encourage ethical student behavior.
Facilitators: Nadine Wolff & Cary Torres

✦ Aʻo Day
Friday, Feb 20, Lamakū Learning Center
Join us for AI-focused sessions at Aʻo Day, coordinated by the Faculty Senate SLOA Committee:

Rethinking SLOs and Assessments in the Era of AI

Facilitator: Jamie Sickel

Presentation Video and Presentation PDF

SLO Architect + AI Resilience Checker Gem

Gemini Gems Quickstart Guide

Improving Teaching Efficiency and Productivity using AI Tools
Facilitator: Cheryl Arakaki

Presentation PDF

The SLO-mageddon Survival Guide

Facilitator: John Johnson

Presentation PDF

Using Google Lens for Visual Search
Friday, February 27 (11am - 12pm), Lamakū Open Flex Space
Session Slides
This session offers a hands-on exploration of AI-powered image search using Google Lens.
Facilitators: Joyce Tokuda & Joy Oehlers

✦ Hawaiʻi Student Success Institute
Friday, March 6, Sheraton Waikiki Beach Resort
Join us for AI-focused sessions facilitated by our KCC colleagues:

Unstick Your Brain: Boosting Creativity with AI
10:55-11:55am, Oʻahu Room
Facilitators: Maegen Walker & Nadine Wolff
Sharing Smart Prompts: Empowering Students and Colleagues to Collaboratively Refine AI Tools
2:30-3:30pm, Kona Room
Facilitator: Satoru Shinagawa

Harnessing NotebookLM as a Means of Inculcating Radical Transparency
Friday, March 27 (11am - 12pm), Lamakū Open Flex Space
Session Slides
NotebookLM allows teachers to upload and curate content for their students, often working as a seeming Lacanian Mirror-Stage-style AI where the AI chat window and the generated synthesized content can be used as a tutor external to the course. Controversies certainly might erupt in terms of student perception that the Notebook is far superior to the flawed human teaching the course. Participants should be able to craft their own NotebookLM's and equally output predictive quizzes and analytics.
Facilitator: Davin Kubota

Online Sessions
(Typically) 2nd Tuesday of the month, 11am - 12pm

The Art of the Prompt: Basic Engineering for Educators
Tuesday, January 13 (11am - 12pm) via Zoom
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"Garbage in, garbage out." This session focuses on the structure of an effective prompt. Learning Objective: Faculty will practice the "Persona + Context + Task + Constraint" formula to generate usable lesson plans or explanations
Facilitator: Peter Young

AI-Resilient Teaching: Practical Workflows for Online Courses from Exams to Feedback
Tuesday, February 10 (11am - 12pm)
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AI can solve many online exam problems from a photo and can generate aligned submissions from instructions alone. So, correct answers no longer reliably indicate learning. This talk demonstrates current AI capabilities, then provides practical assessment redesign techniques (including oral defenses, diagram-based reasoning, and revision workflows) plus instructor-friendly AI workflows to generate new quizzes and exams quickly. Attendees leave with templates and patterns applicable across disciplines.
Facilitator: Justin Carland

From High School to Higher Ed: Understanding the AI Literacy Our Students Bring
Tuesday, February 17 (11am - 12pm)
Session Recording
Hawaii School for Girls - La Pietra - Educational Technology
MidPac Linear Regression Project Sheet SY25
MidPac Custom Prompt for Quiz
Join our panelists of two high school teachers as they demonstrate and discuss how they integrate AI literacy in their school’s curriculum to enhance student learning while addressing critical thinking and academic integrity.
Moderator: Sheldon Tawata with Panelists:
Justin Lai, STEAM Educational Technologist and Emerging Technologies Faculty, Hawai‘i School for Girls at La Pietra
Raymond LaFleur, Math Teacher, Mid-Pacific

AI Literacy: What Hawaiʻi Employers Expect from Our Graduates
Tuesday, March 10 (11am - 12pm)
Session Recording
Join our panel of local industry professionals to explore the role of AI literacy in Hawaiʻi’s workforce. These industry experts will discuss the human skills and digital tools needed for today's jobs.
Moderator: Rita Ryan with Panelists:
Dylan Bulseco, Sr. Vice President of R & D at the Institute for Future Intelligence, and a co-PI on the ExLENT grant.
Nicole Cacal, Executive Director at TRUE, an organization that is helping the acceleration of technology adoption in Hawaiʻi
Greg Hester, CEO at ULU Hi-Tech, a company that is committed to driving community empowerment by helping to grow Hawaiʻi into a tech center with the goal of retaining talent and spreading prosperity through education and career opportunities
Sean Feeney, co-founder and CEO of AcquiLingua, an app that uses GenAI to promote language acquisition with the goal of helping learners achieve language fluency

✦ Teacher to Teacher - Teaching with AI, Not Against It: Practical Strategies for Ethical AI Integration
Wednesday, March 25 (8am - 9am)
Zoom Registration
In this UHCC-wide session, Dr. David Stevens shares practical assignment designs from his ITS 293 (IT Internship) course that embed ethical AI usage directly into the learning process. Drawing on his work with the Google Cybersecurity Clinics grant and the Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics, Dr. Stevens demonstrates a framework that treats AI as a collaborator rather than a shortcut, teaches students to verify AI output and protect sensitive information, and gives faculty clear, gradable rubric language for AI usage policies. Attendees will leave with concrete assignment templates and rubric examples they can adapt for their own courses.

✦ Special AI-focused event in addition to educAIte sessions