GenAI + Teaching Discussion Sessions

Our regular Community of Practice calls bring together educators tackling the challenges associated with widespread generative AI use in teaching and training. With a focus on educating adults, in formal and informal settings, semester-long courses and short training sessions, community conversations give us an opportunity to share experiences of what we have tried, what is working and what is not. Each month includes a featured presentation, reflective open discussion, and a chance for community members to share insights about the questions they still have and the resources/tools they have found helpful.

Presentations are prepared in response to one or more of the guiding questions:

• What are the primary challenges that you are currently encountering when teaching programming/data analysis skills, in relation to the use of generative AI?
• What new approaches have you tried out, to respond to the growing use of genAI in your classroom?
• What worked and what did not? What would you try differently next time?
• What unanswered questions do you have about computing education in the context of genAI?

Find more information about the GenAI + Teaching Discussions and register to join on The Carpentries Community Sessions Pretix site. Join the mailing list for announcements and discussion related to this series.

Community calls are subject to The Carpentries Code of Conduct. This series was motivated and inspired by working group discussions at the March 2026 workshop, Research Software Engineering in the Age of Generative AI: Building a Community Vision, co-led by Schmidt Sciences and the Research Software Alliance (ReSA), with local support provided by the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI).