{"id":3301,"date":"2026-10-21T15:12:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T15:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/cltnewsletter\/?p=3301"},"modified":"2026-10-22T12:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:53:14","slug":"a-snapshot-on-clt-fall-2026-symposium-curiosity-resilience-and-trust-in-teaching-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnhub.aucegypt.edu\/cltnewsletter\/?p=3301","title":{"rendered":"A Snapshot on CLT Fall 2026 Symposium: Curiosity, Resilience and Trust in Teaching and Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Curiosity, resilience, trust, and human connection have become paramount as universities worldwide grapple with the opportunities and risks artificial intelligence (AI) poses for teaching, research, and academic life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CLT Fall 2026 Symposium created a space to explore ideas and strategies for intentionally designing for curiosity<\/strong> in your classroom and building learning environments that spark genuine engagement<\/strong>. The symposium was attended by 220+ participants,<\/strong> including AUC faculty and students, as well as external guests. Through the symposium’s sessions and keynotes, participants examined practical strategies for building resilience<\/strong> in students, fostering trust<\/strong>, and helping students understand how, when, and why to use AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The symposium started with four face-to-face interactive sessions on Sunday, September 27th. These sessions provided opportunities for faculty to share their ideas and insights with the AUC community of faculty, teaching assistants and students. A total of 80+ attendees<\/strong>, including 63 faculty members<\/strong> and 21 students,<\/strong> participated and interacted throughout the day. Below is a summary and highlight recap of these sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Session 1: Analog Inspiration: Human\u2011Centered, Values\u2011Driven Teaching with AI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This interactive workshop brought faculty together for a collaborative, card-based roundtable designed to explore core teaching values, redesign learning relationships, and thoughtfully integrate AI where it benefits teaching and learning. Using Carter Moulton\u2019s Analog Inspiration<\/em> card deck, participants engaged in hands-on rounds of card play, unpacking the uniquely human values they are committed to protecting and cultivating in their classrooms. By the end of the session, faculty reflected on the core values guiding their teaching practices, placing trust, perseverance, integrity, critical thinking, self-reflection, and care<\/em> at the forefront. Here are some of the key values and practical strategies our attendees intend to embed in their classrooms moving forward:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The issue of perseverance has changed the way I think about AI activities. Instead of focusing on the product, this helps me emphasize the process. So it is not the result (product) of using AI and reflecting on it, I will focus on having them monitor the process that led to an acceptable product.<\/em>“
“An emphasis on values that are difficult to be replaced by machines for example, insight, joy and imagination\u2026 and designing activities to discuss that would allow students to be free from the feeling of \u2019having to use AI\u2019 to succeed, show mastery or just accomplish the task.<\/em>“

“Hope: I will ask students to write down how hopeful they are in achieving one or more of the learning outcomes, then later by the end in a class discussion will reflect on whether they were able to achieve any of their goals or not.”<\/em>

“I think the first human value is ‘integrity’ in the way that they should be responsible for their own writing and this leads us to the second value which is ‘concern’. That is to say they should be concerned with their writing and be responsible as well.”<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Session 2: Community Resilience for Faculty and Student Thriving<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a world where both faculty and students are facing continual sources of stress, both internal to the educational environment and beyond it, this interactive workshop aimed to equip faculty members to widen their \u201cResilient Zone\u201d in order to empower them and their students to better handle life stressors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The session began by describing the community resiliency model, and had an interactive segment asking participants what stresses them and what they think stresses their students, on the professional\/academic, social, or personal levels. We then asked faculty members to think about what brings them joy or brings them confidence, strength, and calm to help them cope with difficult times. Participants were then given different scenarios of students who face different and particularly common stressors: from being a freshman wanting to declare, to being an international student, to being a female in engineering. Faculty members worked in small groups to imagine how to support students\u2019 resilience for their particular stressors, and shared the outcome with the wider group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How might you make changes to bring more hope and joy to your life and nurture your own resilience?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n