How the 4Cs Make Student Thinking Visible in an AI World:
Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity
📅 Wed, August 26, 2026 🕛12:00pm CT / 1:00pm ET
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If you want to adapt your teaching for the AI age but feel paralyzed by the sheer effort required to redesign your courses, this webinar is your roadmap!
Every institution already teaches toward the 4Cs: critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity. That hasn't changed. What's changed is how students demonstrate those skills. When a student can generate a polished essay, a discussion post, or a group project summary in seconds, the finished product no longer shows whether students actually did the thinking. That's the challenge gap this session addresses.
In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:
- Rethink the 4Cs for an AI-enabled classroom—not by replacing the framework, but by clarifying what each skill requires today.
- Redesign assignments so student thinking becomes visible, without rebuilding your course.
- Create more equitable assessments. Detection tools disproportionately flag first-generation students, multilingual learners, and nontraditional students.
- Build a shared language for discussing AI, assessment, and proof of learning with colleagues, department leaders, and assessment teams.
- Attendee Bonus One-Pager: Mapping Traditional 4C Skills to AI Partners - a one-page guide that pairs each of the 4Cs with its AI-era counterpart and outlines three practical principles for designing assignments that make student thinking visible. Only available to folks who join live on Aug 26.
You'll leave with at least one assignment or rubric change you can use in the next module you teach. No new policies, just a different way to design and evaluate the work students already complete.
This webinar is for you if:
- You're looking for one concrete change you can make to an assignment, not another theoretical framework to file away.
- You want students to develop AI judgment and literacy
- You believe in the 4Cs but need better ways to assess them in an AI-enabled classroom.
- You're teaching four or five sections a term and don't have time to redesign a single one of them
Meet Your Hosts
Kelsey Behringer | Speaker
Chief Executive Officer, Packback
Kelsey Behringer has trained over 10,000 educators around the intersection of AI and pedagogy, helping educators implement best practices that advance student voice and outcomes. She is the CEO of Packback, which is an Instructional AI platform used to propel student engagement and critical thinking.
Maela Mead | Speaker
Product Manager, Packback
Maela Mead draws on a five-year tenure in educational technology and customer success to champion pedagogy-rich, student-centric solutions. She is committed to building technologies that facilitate social learning and foster deeper, more impactful relationships between educators and students.
Cynthia Wilson | Speaker
Vice President for Learning and Chief Impact Officer,
The League for Innovation in the Community College
Cynthia Wilson, Ed.D., is Vice President for Learning and Chief Impact Officer at the League for Innovation in the Community College. She leads the League’s Learning Initiative and has directed major projects focused on a variety of issues related to teaching, learning, and student success. She has authored or co-authored numerous publications and serves on the editorial boards for Community College Journal of Research & Practice, Change, and New Directions for Community Colleges.
