Webinar | The AI Tightrope: Recognizing and Resisting the Roles of AI in Community Engagement
Join us for this 45-minute webinar and discussion
AI is reshaping the conditions under which community-engaged teaching and partnership work happens. The tools promise efficiency while threatening the relational, place-based integrity that defines this field. In this dialogue, Lance Eaton and Becca Berkey (Northeastern University) walk the tightrope between leveraging AI's affordances and resisting its encroachment on experiential learning's core commitments.
Anchored by stakeholder-specific tensions, the conversation maps distinct opportunities and risks for students, community partners, and faculty. The goal will be to surface where AI might extend capacity and where it threatens to hollow out reciprocity, trust, and presence. Attendees will engage in dialogue and at least one activity to articulate how these tensions show up in their own contexts.
Presenters:
Senior Director of Integrative Engagement and Global Impact
Northeastern University
Becca oversees Community-Engaged Teaching & Research (since 2013) and the John Martinson Honors Program (since 2022), and additionally serves as a lecturer in Human Services at the university. She has more than 20 years of experience in higher education, and is an interdisciplinary learner, researcher, and educator, focusing in her role as a practitioner-scholar on faculty development and community impact of SLCE, and in her role as a scholar-activist as an Environmental Sociologist working with community and coalition-based organizations on issues pertaining to farmworker justice, health, and safety.
Senior Associate Director of AI in Teaching and Learning
Northeastern University
Lance Eaton is a writer, speaker, and scholar on how technologies are reshaping teaching, learning, and scholarly communities. He also nerds out on audiobooks, gardening, cats, and running.
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