Vision Resource Center
In this interactive session, two English and ESOL instructors share classroom activities, student examples, and practical design strategies that center wellness, joy, and storytelling as essential parts of learning in the age of agentic AI. Participants will explore how personal writing and lived experience can strengthen academic work, make student thinking visible, and support authentic human connection.
The ground is shifting. Agentic AI browsers can now log into Canvas and submit assignments on behalf of students. For many faculty, this feels like betrayal—exhausting detection work, forced surveillance, fear that everything we’ve built is suddenly obsolete.
But what if this rupture is also an invitation?
This event offers a different response: one grounded in joy, community, and the deeply human core of education. The best defense against automation isn’t tighter surveillance—it’s returning to what machines cannot do: witness authentic growth, honor cultural knowledge, and create learning where students show up as their full selves.
Our goal is to help you maintain joy and community as essential tools as you design human-first courses that make student thinking visible, invite lived experience into coursework, and protect transfer integrity without eroding equity.
This event offers permission, possibility, and community—a space to process your fatigue, learn from colleagues, and discover practices that make teaching feel creative and relational again.
Because if we lose joy, we’ve already lost.
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