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Replacing Hype with Hope: Designing Better Teaching Futures with GenAI

Pedagogy and technology are entangled - shaping one another iteratively and mutually (Fawns, 2022). Conversations about the emergence of GenAI often swing between anxiety and excitement: Will it replace learning? Break assessment? Permanently damage trust between students and instructors? While most discussions focus on how these tools are used, this workshop instead focuses on imagination, underscoring the affectual and sociocultural realities of pedagogical practice in order to explore alternative approaches to genAI (Manna and Eradze, 2025; Aleman, Dilek and Brana, 2024). 

In this hands-on session, participants will explore how educators can actively shape the future they want rather than surrendering to techno utopian imaginaries. Using a structured futures activity, and genAI-integrated speculative design, we will:

• Identify what from current teaching practice we want to protect
• Surface pressures already changing our classrooms
• Imagine desirable futures for learning in an environment that includes GenAI

Rather than trying to predict 鈥渢he鈥� future of learning and teaching, the goal is to engage with participatory inquiry, opening space for imagining a hopeful future for learning and teaching, not yet realized, but constructed by the conditions of the present (Manna and Eradze, 2025).

Participants will leave with a repeatable activity they can use with students, departments, or programs to support curriculum design, assessment conversations, or strategic planning around GenAI. 

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