Bowie State University • EDAD 903 • In Collaboration with Dr. Robinson
Created with Bowie State University educational leaders in EDAD 903: Critical Issues in Technology. Throughout the course, participants explored how to use AI and emerging technology thoughtfully, responsibly, and creatively, then used AI to code learning experiences for faculty, staff, and leaders around the technology gaps and questions they identified together.
From learning about AI to building with AI
In Bowie State University's EDAD 903: Critical Issues in Technology, the course moved beyond treating AI as a content generator. Participants examined how technology can support design, analysis, research, automation, decision making, workflow improvement, and new forms of learning while keeping human judgment at the center.
Working with Dr. Robinson, participants used AI as a creative and development partner to code interactive learning experiences for educational faculty, staff, and leaders.
They considered not only what technology can do, but when it adds value, when it creates risk, how it changes work, and how learning science should shape technology integration.
The goal is not to use AI everywhere. The goal is to develop the judgment to decide where technology adds value, where human expertise matters most, and how the two can work together.
Surface important technology questions, gaps, and leadership needs.
Examine tools, risks, research, workflows, and learning implications.
Use AI to code practical learning experiences around the selected topics.
Release the experiences as open learning resources for the education community.
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Start anywhere. Each topic opens a separate training experience focused on a technology question educational leaders identified as important for practice.
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How do we decide which tools are actually worth using?
Evaluate AI and other technology tools through instructional value, usability, accessibility, privacy, sustainability, organizational fit, and the needs of learners and educators.
Just because technology can do something, does that mean we should use it?
Examine ethical decision making, transparency, privacy, bias, academic integrity, accessibility, and the importance of appropriate human oversight.
What does leadership look like when AI becomes part of everyday work?
Consider how AI can support planning, communication, decision making, resource management, and organizational effectiveness while keeping professional judgment and human relationships central.
How can AI support research without replacing the research process?
Explore responsible uses of AI for developing questions, organizing ideas, discovering information, analyzing sources, synthesizing findings, and strengthening scholarly work.
Where should AI assist, and where must people remain involved?
Examine workflows that intentionally combine AI speed and capability with human expertise, review, judgment, accountability, and decision making.
How can AI expand access and support multilingual learners?
Explore language development, differentiated instruction, translation support, scaffolding, feedback, accessibility, and personalized learning for English Language Learners.
What work should technology be doing for us?
Identify opportunities to automate repetitive processes so educators and educational leaders can spend more time on creativity, expertise, relationships, and human judgment.
How can AI help us make better sense of educational data?
Explore how AI and emerging technologies can support data organization, analysis, visualization, and interpretation while maintaining attention to data quality, context, privacy, and responsible decisions.
Are we changing learning, or simply digitizing what we already do?
Distinguish between technology that substitutes for an existing practice and technology that creates fundamentally better learning, working, and problem solving experiences.
How can technology integration support how people actually learn?
Explore SAMR through the Science of Learning, moving from substitution and augmentation toward meaningful modification and redefinition while remaining grounded in sound learning and instructional design principles.
Built by educational leaders, for educational communities
These open-source learning experiences were created by Bowie State University educational leaders in EDAD 903: Critical Issues in Technology in collaboration with Dr. Robinson. They connect technology to teaching, learning, research, organizational change, and the everyday decisions educators make about people, systems, and learning.