Dr. Banerji is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Lake Forest College with research interests in image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning. He is a post-doctoral research fellow in the area of computer vision, at George Mason University since November 2013.

Dr. Daniel Henke is the Writing Center Coordinator at Lake Forest College where they direct the Lake Forest College Writing Center and teach college writing, narrative and knowledge production, writing center theory and practice, and rhetoric and speaking tutorials. Their research interests include first-year composition, narrative, queer theory, writing center theory and practice, and qualitative research methodologies. 

AI and Visual Arts

Music/Art

Session 2 | US120 

I will present examples and results on how I was able to test Mid-Journey on its capacity to make original works with the most minimal appropriated content possible. 

The development of new visual technologies and AI are surfacing around the web with the premise of becoming new assistive tools in the creation of art and design. 

Applications such as Mid-Journey can scour the contents of the web to create images, videos, sounds, music, and graphic designs. The hurdle of creating new digital creative content that is indistinguishable from traditionally made digital work is gone and AI is here to stay. The question we may ask is if AI is in fact creating or simply modifying what already exists as data online. In contemplating creative practices we think of history, culture and society combined with craft, technique and unique skillsets. The collection of these elements allow artists to freely interpret the world in which we live. Altogether, present times are asserting new challenges for artists and society as a whole but this is not new. AI could be to Digital Media what photography was to painting in the late 19th Century, a time to reflect on how art may evolve into the next century.

"I Just Want to Teach!": Offloading Administrative Tasks with AI 

co-presented with Kayla Roman-Flores 

Productivity/General Teaching 

Session 1 | US120 

It seems like every year more and more is put onto educators' plates. A recent national survey found that teachers in the US spend over fifty hours a week working, but only 46% of that time is spent with students. How can we leverage the recent proliferation of free AI tools like ChatGPT to increase our efficiency and create better outcomes for our students? In this session, we will explore several ways ChatGPT can be applied to administrative tasks, and we will discuss other potential benefits and concerns AI brings to our personal workflow. 

Chat-Playwrights 

Humanities/Social Studies 

Session 2 | US130

Students will be using ChatGPT to help them write a short one-act play as a culminating activity of their Ellis Island Immigration Unit.

Each play will have 4-5 parts.

The play must be historically accurate of 1912

Students will direct ChatGPT to assist in the writing of one-act play using the AI's capabilities to revise and rewrite aspects of the play to make it more historically accurate. 

Strategies for Incorporating ChatGPT into a Writing Classroom 

Language Arts, Humanities/Social Studies 

Session 2 | US105

As the hysteria surrounding ChatGPT crests and falls, writing teachers may be experiencing whiplash. One writer proclaims that ChatGPT will destroy high school English, while another counters that ChatGPT will save high school English. 

This session will address both sides of this conversation. We'll discuss how we might embrace or combat ChatGPT as writing teachers. We'll try to make sense of the opportunities and challenges surrounding this new technology, and discuss how the practice of writing instruction will—or should—change. 

Session attendees will come away with strategies, writing activities, and a clear sense of how to use—or prevent the abuse of—ChatGPT in their own classrooms with their own students. 

Ethics and AI - Can a Computer Pray?

Science/Technology

Session 1 | US105

At the school of St. Mary we asked our Parish Priest if he would consider using Chat GPT to help build his Homily for the week.... His response made us think.  Can a Computer pray? Should a Computer pray?

In this presentation we will review how AI can be incorporated into the STEAM room we will also explore the ethics of AI in Education. When is it appropriate for students to use Chat GPT for school work? Where is the line between plagiarism and guidance?  Finally, we will explore how educators can use AI to identify computer aided work...

Personal Video Reflections as a way to demonstrate authentic student learning 

Language Arts, Science/Technology, Humanities/Social Studies, Music/Art 

Session 1 | US130

I've been working on automating the personal video storytelling process for students over the last 10 years. When I met with the guys at Northwestern who created Narrative Science, which is very similar to the narrative functioning of ChatGPT, I knew I had to pivot from my iOS app and I've been iterating manually with students ever since cross-curricularly around LFHS and in my New Media class. After going through the process over 2,000 times with students I've refined the process of student reflection using video as an alternative assessment that ChatGPT has made essential for every student in Middle School and beyond.

I also teach Social Studies and we have integrated ChatGPT into our research process for our Freshman World History/Geography class, vaulting them into the process from the empty page of research with great results. 

Socratic Seminar: Scaffolding Content-Area Literacy with ChatGPT

Language Arts, Science/Technology, Humanities/Social Studies

Session 1 | US115 

We will take a constructivist approach to generate various answers to 3 driving questions during our Socratic Seminar discussion...  Can ChatGPT assist in background knowledge acquisition? If so, how? Can ChatGPT build evaluative skills when proofreading or revising compositions? If so, how? Can ChatGPT assist in constructing academic pieces of writing? If so, how? 

AI Chat Tools and Information Literacy 

Libraries and Information 

Session 2 | US115

Artificial intelligence will no doubt have a dramatic and transformative effect on education. In this session, we will explore both the advantages and disadvantages of AI and chatbots in both the library and information literacy landscapes. Specific topics will include chatbots as a tool for readers' advisory and how to teach students information literacy surrounding AI and chatbots, from misleading and incorrect information to biased datasets.