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Are you ready to stay ahead of the curve in dental education? In this 2-hour course, you'll discover the latest updates on how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming teaching, research, and practice in 2025. From integrating cutting-edge tools like Zoom AI Companion to fostering student collaboration with social annotation platforms, this course provides the essential knowledge to enhance your virtual classroom experience and ensure academic integrity. Join us to explore the future of dental education powered by AI!

Objectives:

• Explore the best avenues for seeking access to paid tools
• Discuss strategies for integrating GenAI into your teaching, research, and practice
• Review the key functionalities of Zoom AI Companion, including in-meeting questions, AI-generated summaries, SMART recordings, and setting adjustments to enhance virtual classroom experiences for dental education.
• Examine the role of social annotation platforms, such as Hypothesis and Perusall, and explore how they foster student collaboration, engagement, and critical thinking within dental education.
• Discuss AI’s role in academic integrity, focusing on AI plagiarism detection and the challenges it poses. Review strategies for preventing cheating and ensuring fairness in assessments.

Educators Platform Masterminds are dynamic two-hour virtual sessions building on each other’s challenges, ideas and successes in the presence of a content expert. Mastermind sessions are thoughtfully facilitated to create an environment for like-minded colleagues to share and learn from one another with the goal of collective professional growth and development. Sessions are uniquely tailored to the needs of participants. Those attending will have the opportunity to create strong connections with other participants to last a whole career.

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Chris graduated from the University of Michigan in 2015 with a degree in English Education. For four semesters, he taught grammar and style techniques to postgraduate students from the Michigan School of Dentistry’s Division of Dental Hygiene. Professors noticed their students’ progress, and Chris was invited to present his approach at a series of faculty workshops. This eventually led to an invitation in 2017 to design Writing for Oral Health Sciences, a course required as part of the Masters of Science in Dental Hygiene (MSDH) curriculum, and Chris has co-taught the course each year since. He joined the MSDH program's AI committee in 2023, as he has a keen interest in how artificial intelligence advancements may impact not only his course but also how the skill of writing is taught in general. Chris has worked as a pharmaceutical and corporate finance editor since 2016 and completed an MBA in 2024.

Ashley has been teaching continuously at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Dentistry since 2012 in the Division of Dental Hygiene. Professor Hobbs provides course directorship in the dental hygiene curriculum through Local Anesthesia and Pain Control, Dental Biomaterials and Introduction to the Preventive Practice of Dental Hygiene courses. She acts as the Junior Clinic Coordinator and currently serves as the Secretary for the ADEA Dental Hygiene Clinic Coordinators Special Interest Group. A passion of Ashley’s is giving back to the community. She has attended over 50 dental missions reaching a national and international population. In her free time, she has built two non-for-profit programs to provide preventive services to underserved populations, Elder Smiles and The Gladstone Sealant Outreach Program. Ashley was the recent recipient of the UMKC Staff of the Year Award in 2024 as well as the UMKC Dental Hygiene Alumni Association Outstanding Service Award in 2024. Her research interests include faculty calibration, clinical instruction, and teaching paradigms. She presented on the development of school-based sealant programs at a continuing education course at her professional association at the state level, spoken nationally at the American Dental Education Association 2022 conference on innovative teaching paradigms, and at the American Dental Hygienist’s Association 2022 conference on her qualitative research on student perceptions of a school-based sealant program.

Attendees of Educators Platform Mastermind sessions will earn 2 CEU in Educational Methods.