Session 206: Helping Students Shape Careers in the Age of AI

Time: 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM

Location: Main campus location to be published here on January 5

Presenter: Jennifer Steele (Professor, School of Education)

Session Description: 

This session considers new research on the job skills that will be ascendant across disciplines in the next decade. Drawing on evidence from their own classrooms and observations and from occupational projections, participants will reflect on what these changes mean for their classrooms, including ways in which postsecondary teaching should hold firm as well as adapt to the shifting landscape.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand new data on how day-to-day work is affected by new technology
2. Analyze alignment between their classrooms and the workplaces of their respective fields
3. Evaluate ways in which classrooms should adapt or hold firm