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The AI Academy at Seton Hill is a learning cohort that provides faculty and staff with robust, values-based professional development in AI literacy. The Academy empowers faculty and staff with the technical, ethical, and pedagogical knowledge they need to effectively adapt to AI in learning spaces on our campus. Academy graduates act as mentors for each new cohort, helping to create a sustainable community of practice around AI literacy.
Demonstrate technological understanding of genAI, including awareness of different forms of genAI and how they work.
Evaluate genAI tools and their outputs using critical thinking, embodying the Setonian tradition of ethics, dialogue, and human-centered judgment.
Select and apply genAI as a collaborative tool to support and enhance teaching, research, and creative work across disciplines.
Reflect on value-driven decisions about genAI use in academic and professional work, discerning when genAI tools align or conflict with institutional values.
Assess the ethical issues surrounding the use of genAI (such as data privacy, transparency, bias, labor, equity, and environmental sustainability) from a Catholic, liberal arts perspective.
Determine effective pedagogical and workplace integration in accordance with SHU’s mission to educate students to be creative, ethical, and critical thinkers in the modern world.
Describe the rapidly changing landscape of AI and act with confidence about where and how to pursue continuing education and professional development in genAI.
Contact Emily Wierszewski (wierszewski@setonhill.edu) to get more information on the AI Academy at SHU.
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