Full course description
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming society, schools, and classrooms as we speak, and yet students, educators, and administrators are typically left to their own devices as they evaluate its benefits and costs. This course offers the opportunity to collectively investigate a timely vision for nuanced and responsive AI-literacies. We will focus on the practical integration of AI technologies into diverse educational ecologies. Participants will explore the use of AI generators—such as ChatGPT, RunwayAI, and MidJourney—in a virtual classroom. Through hands-on experimentation, we will leverage collaboration to explore how generative AI can enhance and challenge existing pedagogies and literacies. How can students leverage AI without compromising their learning experience? What are their creative possibilities? How might AI change and impact academic research? These questions—and others generated by students—will drive the course's inquiries, experimentations, processes, and products, which we will pursue with both an open and critical mind.
Students will gain a solid understanding of how AI is impacting the classroom, i.e., teaching and learning, as well as research. They will engage in deep-level thinking and hands-on exploration of AI, its place and challenges in their professional experience (be it as students, teachers, administrators, or researchers). Through collaborative inquiry students will examine concepts such as AI-literacy, pedagogy, and co-creativity.
Dates: December 27, 2025 - January 16, 2026
Times: Live Zoom sessions held from 5:00 - 7:00pm ET, on the following dates:
- Tuesday, December 30th
- Friday, January 2nd
- Tuesday, January 6th
- Friday, January 9th
- Tuesday, January 13th
- Friday, January 16th
Format: Online with Live Zoom Sessions (See dates and times above)
Price: $595
Please Note: This course is offered on a non-credit basis or for up to 3 credits. Registration for this course through TC Academy is for the non-credit offering and Academic Credits will not be awarded. For instructions on how to register for the credit offering see below.
For more information, questions, or to register: Email tcacademy@tc.columbia.edu
This course can be taken for credit in accordance with TC's enrollment policies. If you are not a current student and would like to take this course for credit, please review the Non-Degree Application Instructions page on our website and proceed accordingly. Also, please note that if you plan to take this on a for-credit basis, college tuition and fees will apply. If you are a continuing student in a degree program and have approval from your advisor, you can register for this course beginning on December 1st. Winter session courses will follow spring registration and payment deadlines.