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Penn working group publishes white paper about AI use in classrooms The paper warns that the growing role of artificial intelligence in academic spaces raises questions about the future of critical thinking and student skill development.

“We’re trying to encourage instructors to think about how this technology might be used in their classrooms, and to think about how it could either help or stand in the way of accomplishing the learning goals they have for their class."

Find the full calendar of events (with registration links) here: libcal.library.upenn.edu/calendar/rdds

And on Tuesday, March 31 (10-11am), a hybrid session that introduces users to GitHub 🧑‍💻

Join either virtually (Tuesday, March 17, 4pm-5pm) or in-person (Thursday, March 19, 4pm-5pm) for an introduction to ArcGIS Online, a cloud-based mapping and analysis platform 🗺️

On Tuesday, March 17 (12pm-1pm) join a virtual session about selecting the appropriate repository for storing and sharing your data 📊

On Monday, March 16 (1pm-3:30pm), an interactive session about AI use in the classroom 🤖

🍀 MARCH EVENTS & WORKSHOPS 🍀

Join the Price Lab’s Graduate Student Working Group at these RDDS events this month!

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🚨 Job alert! 🚨 Our colleagues in Research Data and Digital Scholarship (RDDS) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries are hiring an AI & Machine Learning (Al/ML) Developer. Find details about the post & apply here:

Next Monday, March 2, our Critical Approaches to AI Working Group will meet at 12pm on Zoom (link: tinyurl.com/CritAIwrkgrp ) and in Williams 623. Join us!

The Price Lab’s Critical Approaches to AI Working Group has released a white paper in which we advocate for AI-free instruction in reading, writing, & research. These are fundamental skills in the humanities (& in general), & with decisive action we can keep teaching them well in the age of AI!

Dream Lab is a kind of Digital Humanities Summer Camp designed with grad students and early career humanities professionals in mind. In summer 2026, we are excited to offer six classes. Learn more about the classes below and click the links for registration information and instructor bios. Check out the FAQ for information about registration fees and daily schedules.

Read about all Dream Lab courses and register (while early bird pricing is still on!) here 🌩️

NEW to Dream Lab ⚡️This summer, @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social will teach CRITICAL MAKING: ENCHANTED THINGS 🪄

Attn Philly locals: Join us next Tuesday for an informal #DH happy hour! Any student, practitioner, instructor, or fan of digital humanities is welcome. We will meet up at Victory Brewing Company in Center City around 5pm on 2/24 🍻

Tomorrow!

TOMORROW 2/16: Our Critical Approaches to AI Working Group will meet at 12pm on Zoom (link: tinyurl.com/CritAIwrkgrp ) and in Williams 623. Join us!

And we're still going!

Happy birthday Frederick Douglass!

Still LOTS to transcribe!

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Douglass Day 2026 is under way at Penn! Join us in RDDSx on the first floor of Van Pelt. We will be here until 3pm—we have coffee and snacks to fuel your transcriptions ☕️🍊 (not to mention lots of these stickers!)

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TOMORROW!

This event is co-sponsored by The Price Lab and the English Department's ResVic Working Group. Full details here: www.english.upenn.edu/events/2026/...

Thursday, Feb. 19 @ 5pm in FBH 135: Prof. Lauren Goodlad (Rutgers) will deliver a talk about how teachers and students in writing-based humanities disciplines can engage generative AI technologies from a standpoint of action—without unnecessary technodeterminism, catastrophism, or passivity.

Find the full calendar of events (with registration links) here: libcal.library.upenn.edu/calendar/rdds

And on Monday, Feb. 23, 10am-11am, a hybrid session about digital storytelling tools & techniques 🧑‍💻

Also on Tuesday, Feb. 19 (12pm-1:30pm), an interactive session about AI use in the classroom 🤖

Join either virtually (Tuesday, Feb. 17, 4pm-5pm) or in-person (Thursday, Feb. 19, 4pm-5pm) for an introduction to QGIS, a geographic information system 🗺️

Douglass Day, Friday Feb. 13, 12pm-3pm - an in-person transcribe-a-thon event ⌨️

💘 FEBRUARY EVENTS & WORKSHOPS 💘

Join the Price Lab’s Graduate Student Working Group at these RDDS events this month!

🔔 Next week 🔔 Join us for Douglass Day in the Research Data & Digital Scholarship Exchange—we'll help to transcribe documents from the Colored Conventions Project, making these records accessible for future research.

Tomorrow! Register now: libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/16233439

Dream Lab is a kind of Digital Humanities Summer Camp designed with grad students and early career humanities professionals in mind. In summer 2026, we are excited to offer six classes. Learn more about the classes below and click the links for registration information and instructor bios. Check out the FAQ for information about registration fees and daily schedules.

DREAM LAB 2026 - May 26-29 at @upenn.edu

Dream Lab is a kind of Digital Humanities Summer Camp designed with grad students and early career humanities professionals in mind. In summer 2026, we are excited to offer six classes. Learn more & register now (at early bird pricing!):

Our Critical Approaches to A.I. working group will reconvene next Monday, 2/2 in Williams Hall and on Zoom ( link: tinyurl.com/CritAIwrkgrp ). Please join us! 🦾