Quick Labs & Focus Sessions
Explore, discuss, and try AI in a variety of ways to enhance your teaching and your students’ learning. Each session features examples, demos, and interactive peer learning.
Past Events
Designing / Refreshing a Class Session with AI
Got a new class to design, or wanting to refresh a familiar one? Learn how to leverage basic AI prompts to create a session that’s more engaging to your students and more aligned with your learning goals.
Designing / Refreshing a Class Session with AI Slides
Creating Slides with AI tools
What are ways that AI tools can help you not only create great images for your slides, but go from rough ideas to polished decks? In this session, we explored several slide-creation AI tools.
Building Slides with AI Slide Deck Spring 2026
Creating Simulations with AI
How can you use AI to design and run simulations in your own courses? Building on the Focus Session with Paul Reville and Liz City, this hands-on session will walk you through the basic steps of creating AI-powered simulations for your students.
Cognitive Partnership with AI
When it comes to Generative AI, we are all living at a frontier with constantly moving boundaries. In two J-term modules, David Dockterman challenged students to push those boundaries with him, developing proof of concept chatbots to generate durable skills learning tasks, and creating a framework for cognitive partnering with AI. The work was new to everyone and the insights valuable. Dock, and hopefully some of his students, will share their experience learning together with and about AI.
Cognitive Partnering with AI Slides
Using AI to Leverage the Power of Simulations
Simulations can powerfully support student learning by immersing them in real-world applications with structure and reflection. But creating effective, customized simulations is time-consuming. Hear how and why Paul Reville used AI simulations to replace a case-analysis midterm, as well as how Liz City used AI to build simulations from practitioner problems of practice in a PPE program.
Using AI to Summarize Student Group Work During Class (Online)
How can AI be used to analyze and summarize student responses during class, making real-time feedback and interaction more dynamic and efficient? In this session, we’ll try out a tool created for doing just this.
Using AI to Summarize Group Work in Class slides
Building Slide Decks using AI Tools (Online)
What are ways that AI tools can help you not only create great images for your slides, but go from rough ideas to polished decks? In this session, we’ll explore several slide-creation AI tools.
Building AI Bots to Support Student Learning (Online)
Heard about bots but don’t really know what’s involved in creating one? How can they be used to support students’ learning? This session will offer an overview of bot-making tools available at Harvard, some concrete examples from HGSE (including Rob Jenkins’ oral assessment bot), HKS and DCE, and a chance to brainstorm possibilities for your own course. We’ll also preview ideas for a “Bot Club” (Extended Learning Group) in spring 2026.
