TEACHx 2025: Full Schedule

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9:30am CDT

Educating Humans to Thrive in an AI World

Thursday May 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am CDT

It is hard to ignore the AI threats to economic, academic, political, environmental and psychological well-being. Higher education, however, finds itself in a unique position to understand and combat these threats: asking better questions and judging answers has always been at the center of a critical thinking education. Education manages the tension between learning to be fully human and preparing for a successful career. Since expertise is also essential to using AI well, we will need to prepare students to be experts in a world where AI can produce better work than many interns. Understanding how we might (or might not) use AI to support human thriving will be essential as we begin the process of maintaining the best of our tradition while rethinking curriculum for a new world.

Speakers

José Antonio Bowen

Educator, Musician, Scholar

José Antonio Bowen has been leading innovation and change for over 40 years at Stanford, Georgetown, and the University of Southampton (UK), as a dean at Miami and SMU, and as president of a top ten USN&WR most innovative college until 2019. He now runs Bowen Innovation Group L.L.C., and does innovation, leadership and inclusion consulting and training for Toyota, AT&T, Chevron, Pfizer, and other Fortune 500 companies.Bowen holds four degrees from Stanford University (in Chemistry, Music, and Humanities... Read More →

Thursday May 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am CDT
Louis Room

Keynote

Subject AI and Digital Innovation

11:45am CDT

Teaching the Essential Skills of Tomorrow: Building Cloud and GenAI Literacy through AWS Sandboxes

Thursday May 22, 2025 11:45am - 11:52pm CDT

Louis Room

This session introduces educators to AWS teaching resources, specifically AWS Academy and AWS Innovation Sandboxes, designed to enhance classroom instruction in cloud computing and generative AI. We'll demonstrate how these tools can be integrated into your curriculum to provide hands-on experience with industry-leading technologies. Learn practical strategies for teaching students to effectively and responsibly use generative AI tools while developing crucial technical skills demanded by employers. This workshop introduces instructors to resources needed to prepare students for the evolving technological workplace.

Speakers

Carolyn Przybylinski

AWS Account Manager, AWS Worldwide Public Sector

Thursday May 22, 2025 11:45am - 11:52pm CDT
Louis Room

Lightning Talk

Subject AI and Digital Innovation

11:53am CDT

Unraveling Dualities: Finding Peace in Paradox

Thursday May 22, 2025 11:53am - 12:00pm CDT

Louis Room

There is a burnout related to having to navigate seemingly contradictory emotions and behaviors in life. Learning to unravel the paradoxes can help us thrive. "Unraveling Dualities: Finding Peace in Paradox, is a book that I wrote and recently published. After having a conversation about some of the topics that I consult on and teach at Kellogg, I had an epiphany. I was able to bring together most of the ideas that I have taught for decades under a clear umbrella. I was excited to share my perspective with others in the hope that it would help people to navigate challenges and difficulties that they face, sometimes on a daily basis, with more clarity and confidence.

Dualities, what seem to be contradictions, are everywhere. For example, people walk the tightrope of emotion vs. rational thinking almost every single day. The ideas in the book do not rely on a one-size-fits-all approach to leadership skills and actions but, rather, provide a framework and activities for developing greater self-awareness, and navigating and personalizing your thought process and behaviors. The most successful people are versatile â€” they pivot, listen, and adapt their methods appropriately in any given situation.

I hope that the talk will help participants to learn how to make choices that enable them to behave and deliver outcomes aligned with values to become better people.

Speakers

Gail Berger

Clinical Professor, Management and Organizations; Deputy Director of Kellogg Center for Executive Women, Kellogg School of Management

Gail Berger is a Clinical Associate Professor at Northwestern University in the Kellogg School of Management, the McCormick School of Engineering, and the School of Communication, and the Deputy Director of the Center for Executive Women at Kellogg. She is also an experienced executive... Read More →

Thursday May 22, 2025 11:53am - 12:00pm CDT
Louis Room

Lightning Talk

Subject Instructor and Student Burnout and Self-Care

12:01pm CDT

KISS (Keep It Short and Simple) and AWE (Accessible with Examples)

Thursday May 22, 2025 12:01pm - 12:08pm CDT

Louis Room

It's easier than you might think to create an accessible Northwestern Canvas course with links to free, high-quality course materials. The secrets: KISS (Keep It Short and Simple). And use tools like SensusAccess to make sure your site is AWE (Accessible With Examples).

By the end of this session, participants will know how to use SensusAccess to make PDF's of magazine articles and book pages so they're easier for visually impaired students to read. They will also know how to streamline their syllabi and link to "Mission Accessible"-certified course materials hidden on "pages." They will understand why underlining is a no-no because it looks like a hyperlink.

Speakers

Karen Springen

Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications

Karen Springen directs Medill's Journalism Residency program, leads the graduate journalism Magazine Specialization, and teaches undergraduate and graduate reporting and writing classes. She advises several student groups, including the student-run North by Northwestern magazine.Springen... Read More →

Thursday May 22, 2025 12:01pm - 12:08pm CDT
Louis Room

Lightning Talk

Subject Accessibility and UDL

12:08pm CDT

Constructing a Syllabus to Help with Burnout (Instructor and Student!)

Thursday May 22, 2025 12:08pm - 12:15pm CDT

Louis Room

Teaching through COVID-19 and recent political and world events has been challenging, overwhelming, and even exhausting for students and faculty. Many lessons and strategies I implemented during COVID-19 have become a standard part of my courses and syllabi to help ease the stress of students and teaching staff. The point of this lightening talk session would be to discuss some of the tangible changes I've made in recent years to encourage less stress and self-care (including the structure of discussion boards, increased use of technology/Canvas, late policies, collaborative assignment options, clarity in syllabus statements, etc.). While the unexpected has definitely happened in recent years where course pivots needed to happen quickly, this session will focus on syllabus creation and policies to help anticipate potential areas of flexibility and self-care for instructors and students.

Speakers

Karrie Snyder

Associate Professor of Instruction - Sociology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences

Thursday May 22, 2025 12:08pm - 12:15pm CDT
Louis Room

Lightning Talk

Subject Instructor and Student Burnout and Self-Care

12:15pm CDT

Canvas Hall of Fame Ceremony, Sponsored by Instructure

Thursday May 22, 2025 12:15pm - 12:30pm CDT

Louis Room

Come celebrate the end of TEACHx by helping us honor the instructors who went above and beyond to create engaging experiences for their students using Canvas.

Thursday May 22, 2025 12:15pm - 12:30pm CDT
Louis Room

12:30pm CDT

Closing Remarks and Refreshments

Thursday May 22, 2025 12:30pm - 1:00pm CDT

Louis Room

Thursday May 22, 2025 12:30pm - 1:00pm CDT
Louis Room

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