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AI Isn't Destroying Education. Unconfigured AI Is.

The talk that turns AI from the thing your faculty fears into the most powerful teaching tool they've ever had.

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92% of your students use AI. Most of them use it to skip the thinking your faculty carefully designed assignments to develop. Detection tools don't work. Banning it teaches nothing. And every semester without a strategy is a semester where your students develop dependency habits the research proves are damaging.

There's a third path. And it's the only one that actually serves students.

Liz B. Baker has keynoted for the Virginia Community College System, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Brightpoint Community College. She's been in the rooms where faculty groan at one more mandate and students admit AI is the biggest temptation to cheat they've ever faced. She doesn't pretend it's simple. She gives your faculty something they can use Monday morning.

What Faculty Actually Get

Assignments that require AI collaboration and make the work harder, not easier. A grading framework that increases accountability on both sides of the desk. A free configuration tool that turns AI from an answer machine into a thinking coach. And the research that proves configured AI develops the exact skills your institution exists to teach.

Your faculty are being asked to fundamentally rethink how they teach, with no training, no framework, and no support. This keynote gives them all three.

Doesn't Work

Detection Tools

AI-generated content evades detection. Enforcement creates adversarial dynamics without changing behavior.

Doesn't Work

Banning AI

Teaches nothing about a tool they'll use professionally. Students use it anyway, just less openly.

The Third Path

Configured AI as a Teaching Partner

Assignments designed for AI collaboration that make thinking harder, not optional. Accountability built in from the start.

Ideal Audiences

Higher Education Community Colleges Faculty & Staff Deans & Provosts K-12 Administrators Curriculum Directors

Every Attendee Receives

Free access to the AI Thinking Modelâ„¢ Configuration Wizard at aithinkingmodel.com. Bulk copies of The AI Thinking Model available for your event.

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Liz personally responds within 48 hours to discuss your event and audience.