Connecticut College AI and the Liberal Arts Symposium: Full Schedule

1:20pm EDT

Tools of One's Own: Portable Prompting and the Iterative Craft of Professional Identity

Saturday October 17, 2026 1:20pm - 1:30pm EDT

Many students use AI passively, and AI literacy is often taught apart from disciplinary work, so students graduate owning neither their nascent professional identity, their digital presence, nor their AI workflows. Crafting Digital Identity answers that gap by teaching tools of one's own. Because its real content is the students themselves, the course is interdisciplinary by design. Students build a Creative Thought Journey, a story-driven digital narrative of their learning on Skidmore Domains, and design custom AI bots they can keep. The lesson is portability: once you learn to prompt, on BoodleBox or any platform, the skill travels with you. Professional identity develops the same way, through iteration and revision across text, audio, and video. Run as a platform pilot, the course treats AI as a liberal arts question of identity, authorship, and reflection, and shows how ownership turns AI from a force that flattens voice into one that amplifies it.

Speakers

Ben Harwood

Lead Instructional Technologist, Skidmore College

Ben Harwood works as an instructional designer in the Learning Experience Design and Digital Scholarship (LEDS) group in the Information Technology office. He partners with community members to analyze and support technology needs and offers instructional opportunities that promote... Read More →

Saturday October 17, 2026 1:20pm - 1:30pm EDT
Shain Library Chu Room (First floor)

Lightning, Pedagogical Practice & The Human Element

Company Skidmore College

Connecticut College AI and the Liberal Arts Symposium

1:20pm EDT

Ben Harwood

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