Making Student Thinking Visible in an AI World:
Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity
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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 essential skills like 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 essential skills for an AI-enabled classroom by clarifying what each skill requires today (critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity).
- 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. A show-your-work approach shifts the focus from suspicion to visible learning.
- Build a shared language for discussing AI, assessment, AI competencies and proof of learning with colleagues, department leaders, and assessment teams.
- Attendee Bonus One-Pager: Mapping Essential Skills to AI Competencies- a one-page guide that pairs traditional skills with an AI-era counterpart and outlines practical principles for designing assignments that make student thinking visible. Only available to folks who join live on Aug 26.
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 importance of essential skills like critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity, 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
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.
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.
Oliver Short | Speaker
Sr. Director of Product, Packback
Oliver Short is the Senior Director of Product & Design at Packback with a passion for designing delightful, efficacious learning experiences for faculty and students across both K-12 and Higher Education. Based in Denver, Colorado, Oliver leads the Product Management and User Experience Design teams at Packback. Previously, he led product vision and strategy at Bank of America and Discovery Education Experience.
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.
