70 years ago today, the term Artificial Intelligence was first introduced John McCarthy proposed a workshop on AI at Dartmouth
70 years ago, on August 31, 1955, the term Artificial Intelligence was first used in a proposal from John McCarthy entitled A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. 

The proposal was submitted to the Rockefeller Foundation by McCarthy and three co-organizers, Claude Shannon, Nathaniel Rochester, and Marvin Minsky. It was funded, and the eight-week workshop held in the summer of 1956 is widely regarded as the founding event of the artificial intelligence field.


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Each 30-minute episode features conversations with innovative educators who share:
  • Their personal journey from AI-curious to AI-confident
  • Detailed explanations of their classroom implementations
  • One thing you can try tomorrow in your own teaching

Whether you’re just beginning to explore generative AI or already building confidence, each episode meets you where you are. We’re all navigating how to learn and teach with this evolving technology, and our guests share practical, real-world examples to help you along the way. We hope these conversations inspire you to take your next step, however small, in exploring AI's potential in your own teaching practice.

Episode Lineup

The carefully curated lineup features faculty from diverse disciplines and institutions who understand the caution many faculty (and students) feel about AI. The podcasts, and when they will be available on the Moving the Needle site are:

  • 8/25: Host Handover with Moving the Needle Host Scott Riley and Ai, Unscripted co-hosts Mary Crowley-Farrell (USM Council of University System Faculty), Michael Mills (MarylandOnline), and Jennifer Potter (USM Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation)
  • 9/1: AI & Information Literacy: Teaching Students to Think Critically with Ben Shaw (Teaching and Learning Librarian, University of Maryland, College Park)
  • 9/15: Ask the AI: Business Assignments That Boost Engagement with Bill Carter (Associate Professor, University of Baltimore Merrick School of Business)
  • 9/29: Therapy Bots & Ethical Practice: AI in Mental Health Education with Amanda Draheim (Assistant Professor of Psychology, Goucher College)
  • 10/13: Truth, Data, and AI: Journalism's Role in Uncertain Times with Derek Willis (Lecturer in Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park)
  • 10/27: Writing with Machines: AI in the English Classroom with Eleanor Welsh (Professor of English, Chesapeake College)
  • 11/10: Clinical Judgment Meets AI: Teaching for Nursing Practice with Denyce Watties-Daniels (Associate Professor in Nursing, Coppin State University)
  • 11/24: AI as a Critical Friend: Supporting Reflection in Graduate Learning with Liyan Song (Professor, Learning Technologies, Design & School Library Media, Towson University)
  • 12/8: Ask Us Anything: Series Wrap-Up, with co-hosts Mary Crowley-Farrell, Michael Mills, and Jennifer Potter alongside Moving the Needle host Scott Riley

The series is hosted by:

  • Mary Crowley-Farrell, Collegiate Associate Professor in Communication, Journalism, & Speech at UMGC and longtime CUSF member
  • Michael Mills, Associate Senior Vice President of Equitable Access and Student Success at Montgomery College and Chair of the Board of MarylandOnline
  • Jennifer Potter, Associate Director, Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation at the University System of Maryland
  • Moving the Needle host, Scott Riley

How to Listen

The first episode is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and the AI, Unscripted Podcast Limited Series page. New episodes will be added bi-weekly through December 15th. 

Share Your Journey

We invite you to share your own questions, hesitations, or early experiments with AI in teaching. Connect with us on LinkedIn using #AIUnscripted or email your thoughts to aiunscripted@usmd.edu. Your perspective matters, especially if you're just beginning to explore these tools. Your questions and experiences could help shape future resources for faculty across Maryland.

Co-sponsored by the USM Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, the USM Council of University System Faculty, and MarylandOnline.

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The article quotes Professor Joshi's comments on teaching programming: 'Previous generations adapted to the calculator, the printing press and to the written word. We're slowly beginning to adapt and ask ourselves the question, how do you teach computer science, in a world where people can just tell the computer to spit out code?'"

It also mentions Schumacher's approach for using AI as a tool for brainstorming, rather than extracting facts, asa  key to promoting responsible use. "Students who rely too much on the technology are vulnerable to endemic errors in AI answers called hallucinations that range from relatively innocuous mistakes to completely made-up facts. Google’s AI search tool once infamously identified former President Barack Obama as a Muslim, leading the tech giant to remove AI answers for some questions."
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UMBC professor Aharona Rosenthal has a new paper, Can AI make Hitler cry?, exploring the use of AI in Holocaust education across four generations in Spinger’s AI and Ethics journal. The paper presents an empirical comparison of four generations of Holocaust descendants’ perceptions of AI-generated Holocaust content. 

It reveal a generational trust gap, showing that the first and second generations prioritize emotional authenticity and remain skeptical of AI, third- and fourth-generation participants show greater trust in digital platforms and AI-driven tools for Holocaust education. The fourth generation’s use of AI-powered tools, including short-form content on TikTok and Instagram Reels, represents a new mode of Holocaust engagement, but also raises ethical concerns for gamification and the trivialization of trauma. It advocates for a hybrid model that integrates AI with human storytelling and scholarly oversight to ensure responsible Holocaust education.


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In 2024, information systems Ph.D. student Ommo Clark penned an opinion piece for BusinessDay Nigeria exploring why many Nigerians diagnose and treat their medical conditions themselves, often turning to unreliable online information.

While the essay was inspired by firsthand experiences in her native country, the impulse to consult “Dr. Google” is a worrying global trend, Clark says, and one that has motivated her Ph.D. work. It’s unlikely that people will stop going online with health questions, so Clark is researching ways that AI could help patients, healthcare providers, public health officials, and content platforms better understand and evaluate the sea of medically related content on the Internet.

Ommo’s efforts were recently recognized when one of her research papers, co-authored with information systems professor Karuna Joshi, won the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Digital Health 2025, held in July in Helsinki, Finland. The paper, titled “Real-Time Detection of Online Health Misinformation using an Integrated Knowledgegraph-LLM Approach,” describes the results of combining two types of AI approaches to tackle the problem of identifying online health misinformation.

Read more about their work in this UMBC News article.

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10/1: Dr. Mariann Hawken (Director of Instructional Technology), Google Gemini: AI Tools for Research, Teaching, & Learning

10/8: Brianna Hughes (STEM Reference & Instruction Librarian), Assembling an AI Toolbox: Access-Oriented Approaches to Scholarship and Instruction

10/15: Nina-Simone Edwards, JD (Senior Institute Associate, Institute for Technology Law & Policy), Beyond the Hype: Embedding Ethics in AI Policy for Libraries and Higher Ed

10/22: Jennifer Posada (PhD student, Human-Centered Computing), Making Sense of Data with AI: Lowering Barriers, Expanding Who Participates

10/29: Manas Gaur (Asst. Professor, CSEE), and Yash Saxena (PhD student), Building Trustworthy LLM Agents for Academia through Structured, Interpretable Knowledge Retrieval and Source Attribution

11/5: Roberto Yus (Asst. Professor, CSEE), The Privacy Paradox of GenAI: What It Knows, Why It Matters, and How We Fight Back

11/12: Eric Stokan (Assoc. Professor, Political Science & Director of CS3), Advanced Opportunities with AI and Large Language Models (LLMs): Examples from the Social Sciences

The seminar series is made possible by the following sponsors: Division of Information Technology, Center for Social Science Scholarship, CSEE Department, IS Department, and the Hackerman Foundation.
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UMBC’s Dennise Cardona interviewed Sai Manvitha Nadella, M.P.S. ’25, and Sampath Kumar, M.P.S. ’25, co-founders of AIEdumate and graduates of UMBC’s Data Science Program. AI-Edumate is an AI-powered learning platform born from their capstone project.

Their story highlights how hands-on learning, entrepreneurial resources, and a shared vision for personalized education came together at UMBC. You can watch the interview on YouTube, listen to an audio version, or read a lightly edited transcript.


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The paper addressed the problem of identifying health misinformation on social media platforms, which poses a threat to public health by contributing to hesitancy in vaccines, delayed medical interventions, and the adoption of untested or harmful treatments. 

Clark and Joshi evaluated their hybrid approach to combining LLM and knowledge-graph technologies on a dataset of Reddit posts discussing chronic health conditions, and showed the benefits compared to models that only use text or knowledge-graphs. Their paper, Real-Time Detection of Online Health Misinformation using an Integrated KnowledgeGraph-LLM Approach, is available here.


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Philosophy 378 will examine core questions about the nature of AI, such as: What is AI? What is the relationship between AI and scientific knowledge? How can bias in AI be addressed? Can AI predict, influence, or even control human behavior? What is the relationship between mind and machine? Can AI replicate human capacities for cognition, creativity, and consciousness? And what is the future of human-AI interactions?

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You can find more information on the available four-hour online workshops and their upcoming scheduled dates by clicking on the links below. Visit the site to possible changes. Additional topics may be added in the future.


UMBC faculty and staff can register for any of the upcoming sessions for free by sending an email message to Deshawn Delice with your name, role (i.e., faculty or staff), and the sessions and their dates that you would like to register for.


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