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Structuring AI in Our Learning: What Are We Missing in the Conversation?

MyFest 2026

Structuring AI in Our Learning:

What Are We Missing in the Conversation?

DR. RHOAN GARNETT, PHD IN CONVERSATION WITH DR. LANCE EATON, PHD

July 1, 2026

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When AI arrived at your institution, what did it walk into?

When AI arrived

at your institution,

what did it walk into?

Five Belonging Gaps | Five Institutional Conditions

Belonging Gap

Institutional Condition

JUDGMENT GAP

SHAME GAP

MAP GAP

RECOGNITION GAP

LEGITIMACY GAP

VOICE AND DIFFERENCE

ASKING FOR HELP

NAVIGATING THE SYSTEM

BELONGING VS. ADMISSION

WHOSE KNOWLEDGE COUNTS

If AI is revealing something about the environments we've already built, what feels most important to pay attention to next?

If AI is revealing something about the

environments we’ve already built,

what feels most important to pay attention

to next – especially if we don’t want to focus

only on the tool?

Faculty engagement anchors

Which of these conditions feels most present in your context – not in the abstract, but in your classroom or your work this semester?

Where does AI show up as the easier option for your students – and what does that tell you about what the harder option is asking them to risk?

What is one thing you could change, without a budget line or committee approval, that would shift how one of these conditions is experienced?

When important decisions about teaching, learning, or AI are made in your context, whose experiences are typically present and whose are absent?

If AI sometimes feels lower-risk than office hours, what does that reveal about the environments we've built?

If AI sometimes feels lower-risk than

office hours, what does that reveal

about the environments we’ve built?

If AI sometimes feels lower-risk than office hours, what does that reveal about the environments we've built?

What happens after we see it?

What would it take for what becomes visible in rooms like this one to survive after the room ends?