Enhancing Critical Thinking with GenAI
Wednesday, April 23 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Higher Education is responding to the growing use of AI in the workplace by preparing students to ethically incorporate AI use into their skill set.
Join Dr. Eugenia Novokshanova and Dr. Michelle Kassorla from Georgia State University, Perimeter College, for a presentation from The Multimodal AI Project. They will share findings from their SOTL research about AI’s impact on student critical thinking and some important tools and techniques for bringing AI into your classroom responsibly and ethically. In addition, they will share their empirical evidence that critical thinking can be enhanced with the use of GenAI. Their recent publication, Serious Play, is a comprehensive guide about using GenAI in courses.
Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with the transformative potential of AI in higher education with a team that is leading the way. You will discover practical strategies for using AI as a powerful research tool and some effective prompting techniques you can use today and learn how to adjust your rubrics to prepare your students for their AI future.
Presented by the College Teaching and Learning Science Certificate Program and the Faculty Development Center at UMBC.
Speaker Bios
Eugenia Novokshanova, Ph.D.
Eugenia Novokshanova, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of English at Georgia State University, Perimeter College. She is a Multimodal Writing AI specialist, holding a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from Georgia State University, where her focus was on multimodal writing studies. A Dean’s Fellow in Writing with AI, she has 25 years of experience teaching Freshman Composition and ESL at GSU. With a Master’s degree in Teaching English and German Languages from Omsk State Pedagogical University, Russia, she focused her early studies on how similarities in grammatical structures between a learner’s first and second languages influence second language acquisition. Collaborating with Dr. Kassorla on the “Multimodal AI Project,” Dr. Novokshanova investigates how integrating AI, multimodality, and digital writing tools into Freshman Composition courses at GSU affects student performance and perceptions of the writing process.
Michelle Kassorla, Ph.D.
Michelle Kassorla, Ph.D., an Associate Professor at Georgia State University, Perimeter College, has more than 30 years of experience teaching English and Composition. She teaches With and Against AI in Composition I and II courses, integrating AI into all assignments this academic year. She’s on the AI Expert Panel for EDUCAUSE, leading the AI Literacy committee for Higher Education. A recipient of a Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Online Education fellowship, she published “Teaching with GAI in Mind” in the EDUCAUSE Review and co-authors a textbook and papers with Eugenia Novokshanova. She’s a Co-Principal Investigator in the “Perceptions of AI” study at GSU. She shares her insights on LinkedIn and her blog, “The Academic Platypus.” As a mother of eight boys, she’s continually inspired to excel.
