#  Quick Labs & Focus Sessions 

 



Explore, discuss, and try AI in a variety of ways to enhance your teaching and your students’ learning. Each session will feature examples, demos, and interactive peer learning. **Registration for future events will be open soon!**



 

 

 

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##  HGSE AI Showcase 

 



  [### HGSE AI Showcase

 ](/projects-initiatives/leap-initiative/hgse-ai-showcase)**May 11, 10:00-11:30am (In person)**

Join us once again to see what HGSE colleagues have created, experimented with, and discovered using AI this year for teaching and research.



 

 

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##  Past Events 

 



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###    Spring 2026 Quick Labs  expand\_more  

### **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](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r0nTNCfeS0ZwkvWyIoo8IdfeMz-by-nD/view?usp=sharing)

### **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](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S53yUOWCOFATvdqVxDCnjE0n2TOjuU4a/view)

### **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.

[Creating Simulations with AI Slides](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ww2Dep0piXzjvh-zRIJOJmwywFFUbEnL/view?usp=sharing)

 

 



###    Spring 2026 Focus Sessions  expand\_more  

### 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](https://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/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](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LVtx2yoZjzsui8cERqhNP3uCk9T4lpOmO9kF1fw6DBQ/edit?usp=sharing)

### 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](https://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/paul-reville) used AI simulations to replace a case-analysis midterm, as well as how [Liz City](https://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/elizabeth-city) used AI to build simulations from practitioner problems of practice in a PPE program.

[Using AI to Leverage the Power of Simulations Slides](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F_rqcVs6ATNhg7FHaiHd0vToc5Z02xnl/view?usp=sharing)

 

 



###    Fall 2025 Quick Labs  expand\_more  

### 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](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BNQF0JVTd_IlngTT0HpRomhd2HjLxcxM/view?usp=sharing)

### 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 Slide Decks using AI Tools Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16pts-iktd2bH99doNhyhv0kY_rnz8-La1UORvlVDaA4/edit?usp=sharing)

 

 



###    Fall 2025 Focus Sessions  expand\_more  

### 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](https://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/robert-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](/projects-initiatives/leap-initiative/learning-groups "Extended Learning Groups")) in spring 2026.

[Building AI Bots to Support Student Learning Slides](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oRmZWYTvsKSAtHOTEejDoHQt7yVKa_b_/view)