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CCC | Reclaiming Joy: Human-First Teaching in the AI Era | Shift Happens: Using Custom Bots to Reclaim Time for Human Connection

Friday, April 17, 2026`10:15 am - 11:15 am

  • Wanda Butterly, Instructional Technology Specialist, Las Positas College
  • Andrea Fuentes, Faculty Instructional Designer, Skyline College
  • Fabiola Torres, Ethnic Studies Professor, Glendale College and AI Fellow

Ensuring our courses are compliant and inclusively designed is important – but the demands of teaching consume enormous time and energy. As a result, they often crowd out the relational, creative work that drew us to education in the first place. In this session, three CCC educators share the custom AI chatbots they built for faculty using Playlab* to fast-track compliance tasks. By offloading the overhead to AI, faculty are reclaiming time and mental energy to invest where it matters most: building genuine relationships with students.

*Playlab is a non-profit, custom chat bot tool used in partnership with the CCCCO that meets student privacy regulations (FERPA compliant).


 

 

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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Details

Date:
Friday, April 17, 2026
Time:
10:15 am - 11:15 am