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Drawing on speculative scenarios and narratives crafted by Ukrainian students, this presentation examines emerging visions for higher education in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. Students highlight both opportunities and challenges, expressing concerns over privacy and autonomy while acknowledging AI's convenience. These narratives reveal a tension between efficiency and traditional educational values like critical thinking and creativity, and illustrate the changing roles of universities, teachers, and students. This method empowers students' voices, offering insights into their aspirations and informing educators how to adapt teaching practices. Attendees will gain practical strategies for integrating student narratives to enhance civic learning and educational outcomes.

Although teacher preparation programs expose future teachers to a wealth of ideas, the transition from training environments to real classrooms is not straightforward.

This panel discusses practical suggestions, grounded on theoretical and pedagogical principles, that novice teachers can implement to navigate the challenges they face in their first few years in the field. The suggestions focus on how to build a social context, navigate institutional policy, plan and deliver lessons, foster participation, implement assessments, and use corpora and digital tools. Attendees will leave the session with a toolkit of ideas that will prevent them from getting burned out.

AI has taken the world by storm, but mainstream AI models out-of-the-box are biased and lack the contextual awareness to successfully serve the needs of adult ESOL learners, especially in career education and workplace training, where context is paramount. This workshop aims to empower educators with foundational AI literacy and best practices, starting with a beginner-friendly introduction to AI concepts and moving into advanced topics like Retrieval Augmented Generation. Participants will gain hands-on experience with AI and workshop AI use cases to support adult ESOL learners in career education learning contexts. Please bring your laptop if you wish to participate!

A benefit of reframing the writing process as a practice-based learning landscape is that students gain voice within their campus communities. When students invest by sharing their work, the art of revision 'revises' the way they see themselves, creating an opportunity for them to experience the joys of becoming writers. This research-grounded workshop highlights benefits of student engagement with peers through two approaches which attendees experience: writing groups and critique letter writing. Attendees participate in a writing community to experience alternative revision approaches which they can add to their own courses in order to foster students' civil engagement and confidence.