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This presentation examines how educators can thoughtfully integrate artificial intelligence into the classroom while upholding academic integrity, ethical engagement, and the core mission of education. It draws on historical parallels—from ancient concerns about writing to later fears surrounding typing—to frame AI as a double-edged sword that can offload routine cognitive tasks yet risks eroding the mental discipline and critical thinking essential for deep learning. Centered on the guiding question of what students truly need to learn and how technology can help them achieve it, the session offers practical assignment frameworks, such as designing an AI-supported ministry plan and developing a research prospectus that requires critical evaluation of AI output, to ensure students distinguish between tasks suitable for technological support and those that demand human judgment, pastoral presence, and spiritual formation. Ultimately, it equips educators to redesign pedagogy so that technology enhances rather than replaces the fundamental goal of training the mind to think.

Publication Date

Spring 3-4-2026

City

Tulsa

Keywords

artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI, pedagogy, redesigning pedagogy, academic integrity, ethical AI use, critical thinking, higher education, theological education, ministry training, spiritual formation, AI-assisted assignments, human judgment and AI, technology integration in education, educational technology, AI in research, research methodology, academic innovation

Disciplines

Adult and Continuing Education | Art Education | Contemplative Education | Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Educational Technology | Higher Education | Humane Education | Liberal Studies | Online and Distance Education | Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

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AI in the Classroom

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