AGENDA: 2026 Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology

Wednesday, August 5, 2026
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM	Registration and Coffee/Snacks
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Building AI-Native Assignments: Teaching Students to Work and Think With AI Richard Ashmore Room 301				AI for Research, Save the Human: Building Student Skills Marina Parenti Room 304
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM	Creating Custom AI Bots for Your Course with BoodleBox Elizabeth Miller Room 301			Designing for AI Literacy: Embedding Responsible Use in Higher Ed Courses Deborah Lowe Room 304		Designing for Judgment: Building Assignments That Measure Thinking & Process Oliver Short Hunter Diveley Ryan Merry Room 305
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch - Student Commons
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM	Your Course Has an Accessibility Problem. Let's Fix It Right Now Page Durham Room 301			Referenced, Not Generated: A Hands-On Google NotebookLM Workshop Michael Stroup Room 304		AI as a Design Partner: Iterative Assignment Redesign for Learning Magan Calhoun Room 305
Thursday, August 6, 2026
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Registration and Coffee/Snacks
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM	Cheating Required - Faculty as Students in the Age of Generative AI Jeff Loats Room 301			Who Does the Thinking? Course Design Principles for the AI Classroom Diane Sieber Room 304		Designing AI-Integrated Courses in a Hands-On Workshop Trish Elley Amir Al-Nizami Kevin Alexander Room 305
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Designing Interpretation with Generative AI: Structure and Variability Shannon Leone Room 301
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Empowered Proctoring: Building Trust in Online Assessments Angelica Surra Room 300
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM	Mind Meets Heart: Emotional Intelligence and the Path to Language Mastery Ismenia Desouza Constance Leonard Room 301		Exploring the AI Grief Cycle: Finding a Path Forward for Faculty Christopher Ostro Room 304		Building a Library of Online Course Shells for Community College Faculty Kathy Sindt Room 305		AI Use Among HDFS Students Katie Gerst Lily Ortega Room 306
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM	Keynote in the Main Courtroom Maikel Right
12:25 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch - Student Commons
1:40 PM - 2:30 PM	Relationship Engineering: Designing Better Human-AI Collaboration Richard Ashmore Room 207	Steering Into the Slide: Mindful Design in Complex Learning Environments Michelle Colarelli Room 300		Scale Up with Less: Tiered ID Support in Resource Constrained Environments KC Coburn Room 301	The AI Equity Gap: Student Access, Confidence, and Institutional Action Rori Romero Room 304	Lessons Learned from Faculty Opting Out of AI Use in the Classroom Patrick McGuire Katy Patterson Robert Cook Room 305		A Fireside Chat: CU Boulder's AI Literacy Ambassadors' Program Faculty Support Susan Adams Teresa Nugent Nicole Jobin Rebecca Lee Room 306
2:45 PM - 3:35 PM	Accessibility Outliers: Exceptions in Course Design Zach Clark Kathryn Williams Room 207		Humanities in an AI World: Accommodating AI to a Human World Mike Coste Stewart Erlich Tiffany Fitzgerald Room 300		Game On: Turning Courses into Quests Catlyn Keenan Room 304		AI as a Learning Design Partner: Working Faster with Claude Jacy Ashford Jill Lester Room 305
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM	How we used AI for COLTT Room 207	Evaluating Experience: Generative AI for Authentic Online Learning Michael Rupert Will Austin Room 300		Translating AI and Human Competencies into Future-Ready Skills Artemis Preeshl Room 301	Five Accessibility Mistakes Faculty Make (And How AI Fixes Them) Page Durham Room 304	The implications of gamification as a tool in the classroom Anastasia Biggs Dana Betts Room 305		Building Science Culture, Community Engagement, and Library as Laboratory Mozhdeh Saffari-Parizi Room 306
4:20 PM - 4:45 PM	CLOSING - Student Commons
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM	Happy Hour - Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park)