Atrium’s managing director, Stephen Harmon, will share how Atrium connects visitors with resources and networks and offers programs that provide access to opportunities beyond the Tech campus. You will also hear from Jonna Lee and Eric Sembrat of the College of Lifetime Learning research team about their work applying personas, AI, and digital credentials to better serve learners. Additionally, Curiosity Lab’s Executive Director, Emily Heintz, will discuss the four sectors it serves and how they support inventors and entrepreneurs.

The program will conclude with a social hour for connecting with fellow attendees and speakers. Light refreshments will be served.

Please register by Thursday, May 7.

Abstract: Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, generative artificial intelligence has evolved rapidly from conversational tools to autonomous systems that reason, act, and learn independently. This represents a fundamental shift from AI as a classroom presence to educational infrastructure. Neuroscience now confirms what learning designers have long known: scaffolding, sequence, and cognitive friction are not optional features of learning—they are its foundations. General-purpose AI, deployed without pedagogical alignment, risks removing that friction, accumulating “cognitive debt” rather than foundational understanding.

In this talk, Pratschke introduces Generativism, her design approach for creating generative learning in a world where humans learn and work in partnership with AI, and the three integrated frameworks that operationalize it: (1) a Contextual Framework identifying four essential dimensions—cognitive, learner, pedagogical, and technical; (2) TPAIK, which reimagines the established TPACK framework to define the intelligences required of AI systems; and (3) the Agentic Community of Inquiry (ACoI), an adaptation of the Community of Inquiry model that provides a structure for multi-agent learning environments.

As AI moves from language to experience—from agentic systems to world models that generate entire simulated environments—the stakes for pedagogical design only increase. These frameworks provide the foundations for designing learning that takes place not just with AI, but inside the worlds it creates. The role of the educator is shifting—from consumer of AI tools to designer and creator of AI systems—and these frameworks serve as a guide.

Biography: Mairéad Pratschke is a researcher, strategist, and advisor who has worked at the intersection of digital technology and education for more than 25 years. She is the author of Generative AI and Education: Digital Pedagogies, Teaching Innovation and Learning Design (Springer, 2024), and her work focuses on moving institutions from passive AI adoption to intentional pedagogical system design. She is a visiting professor at the LSE Data Science Institute and sits on the External Advisory Board of AI-ALOE at Georgia Tech.

• Website: https://maireadpratschke.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maireadpratschke/

Join the Georgia Tech Library online Thursday, April 23 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for our Designing for Climate Resilience: A Tableau and HCI Approach workshop. 

• Resources for finding credible journals in your field
• Library databases for journal impact measures
• Tools for measuring citation counts and tracing citations
• Options for managing your scholarly identity and visibility
• Resources for open access publishing

EndNote software is available to the Georgia Tech community, as part of your Georgia Tech Technology Fee.

At the end of this session you will be able to add references to EndNote from databases and online sources, manage references and PDFs in EndNote, and use Cite While You Write to add citations from EndNote to MS Word documents.

No prior experience with EndNote required.

Take a break and relax with registered therapy dogs from CAREing Paws! Volunteers will be at the Library to offer the community a chance to spend relaxing downtime with furry friends. This semester the fun will happen Wednesday, April 29 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Grove Level of Price Gilbert, next to INFODesk. 

This ceremony will feature Bachelor's graduates from the College of Design, Scheller College of Business, College of Sciences, College of Lifetime Learning, and Select College of Engineering Majors (CHBE and BMED)

All ceremonies will be live streamed and will also be available for viewing after the event.

General information can be found at commencement.gatech.edu.

This ceremony will feature Bachelor's graduates in select College of Engineering majors: Mechanical Engineering (ME), Civil Engineering (CE), Nuclear and Radioactive Engineering (NRE), Electrical Engineering (EE), Aerospace Engineering (AE), Computer Engineering (CMPE), Environmental Engineering (ENVE), Industrial Engineering (IE), and Materals Science Engineering (MSE).

All ceremonies will be live streamed and will also be available for viewing after the event.

General information can be found at commencement.gatech.edu.

This ceremony will feature Bachelor's graduates from the College of Computing and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

All ceremonies will be live streamed and will also be available for viewing after the event.

General information can be found at commencement.gatech.edu.

Colleges will host individual Graduation Celebrations for master's students following the Institute ceremony. 

All ceremonies will be live streamed and will also be available for viewing after the event.

General information can be found at commencement.gatech.edu.

All ceremonies will be live streamed and will also be available for viewing after the event.

General information can be found at commencement.gatech.edu.

For more information, visit the event webpage here. An RSVP is required to attend this event.