Meet Our Keynote!
Dr. Carter Moulton
Carter Moulton is an educational developer, facilitator, and media researcher. He is the creator of Analog Inspiration, an educational card deck designed to help faculty discuss and reflect on how critical human values, skills, and concerns are being impacted by the age of generative AI. Since its launch in June 2025, the card deck has been adopted by educators at hundreds of universities worldwide, and has been featured by Teaching in Higher Ed, OneHE, and the Association of College and University Educators, among others.
Carter currently works as a Faculty Developer at Colorado School of Mines and received his PhD from Northwestern University. He is a former Graduate Teaching Fellow, Consultant, and Mentor at the Searle Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning. Carter’s pedagogical work has ranged from co-developing teacher training programs for primary and secondary teachers in Thailand as a Peace Corps Volunteer, to founding a peer observation program for graduate students at Northwestern, to designing and delivering training for faculty in India. His teaching and learning publications include Teaching and Learning Inquiry, American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings, and the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies Teaching Dossier. His media research on contemporary digital culture and media experiences has appeared in the International Journal of Cultural Studies, Popular Communication, and Communication, Culture and Critique, among other places.
Interactive Keynote Session:
"Between Harm Reduction and Hope: Toward A Human-Centered AI Pedagogy"
With the rapid emergence and continued evolution of generative AI technologies, it can feel utterly overwhelming and exhausting trying to adjust our teaching strategies to meet this moment. This interactive keynote offers us an opportunity to slow down, join in community, and approach AI not by emphasizing its novelty or promises of efficiency, but by centering the human values, skills, and concerns that matter most to us as educators. What might happen if we were to consider generative AI's emergence through concepts like "community," "joy," "rest," and "patience?" Drawing on Analog Inspiration, a card deck project featuring over 80 concepts ranging from accessibility to wonder, we will envision a human-centered AI pedagogy that begins with identifying our pedagogical values and discussing our personal concerns about AI. Pairing this values-led work with evidence-based teaching approaches and the most recent research on AI and learning, the session will offer practical strategies to build trust with students, proactively address academic integrity concerns, preserve the cognitive friction required for learning, and ultimately, strengthen the human relationships that anchor the work of teaching and learning.