Date: Tuesday, May 19
Time: 9am -3pm (you are invited to attend one session or all day)
Location: Lowry 201
Faculty and staff are invited to a one‑day retreat designed to explore, experiment with, and rethink how generative AI intersects with a Wooster experience. Through a mix of collaborative discussion and hands‑on activities, faculty and staff will examine what AI literacy means for our students, explore AI integrations that promote deeper thinking rather than shortcuts, and learn practical tools to assist with your work. The day also includes a AI Pedagogy Lab, where participants can bring real teaching challenges, questions, or ideas and work through them with peers in a creative, low‑stakes environment.
Each session will feature faculty and staff from the AI Task Force and this spring’s Exploring AI in Teaching professional learning community sharing their experiences and lessons learned.
Attendees are welcome to participate in any or all sessions, making it easy to tailor the experience to individual interests and schedules.
- Keynote: Aaron Winston, Wooster ‘14, English and Philosophy
- Session 1: AI Literacy at Wooster: what it means for our students, what it means for us
- Session 2: Using AI to Support Student Learning
- Lunch: Lunch tickets for Lowry Dining will be provided (or participate in the Sustainability Office’s potluck lunch & learn!)
- Session 3: Faculty and Staff AI Toolbox
- Session 4: AI Pedagogy Lab: Workshop your ideas
Please register your intent to participate by completing this form by the morning of May 18th. We hope you can join us!
Keynote: Aaron Winston, Wooster class of 2014
We are delighted to have Aaron Winston join us to kick off our day. Aaron is the Head of Content & Communications at Arize AI, where he leads content, communications, and narrative strategy around AI observability, evaluation systems, and agentic software. His work focuses on helping developers and organizations better understand, evaluate, and improve the behavior of large language models and AI agents.
Prior to joining Arize, Aaron spent nearly five years at GitHub and Microsoft. His work included messaging, editorial strategy, and developer education around GitHub Copilot, one of the earliest widely adopted generative AI tools.
Aaron graduated from The College of Wooster in 2014 with dual majors in English and Philosophy, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. His Independent Study explored the philosophical problem of selfhood and personal identity.