#LTT2026 Learning To Teach: (Re)Designing Creative Tech Pedagogy for the GenAI Era, A Virtual UnSymposium hosted by Integrated Design and Media (IDM) at NYU Tandon on Friday, January 16, 2026 • 8:45am – 6:45pm ET.

Building on our 2025 and 2024 virtual gatherings, this symposium brings together educators from higher education, K-12, and non-profits who teach at the intersections of media, design, art, music, and technology, to engage in forward-looking conversations examining how generative AI (GenAI) continues to reshape creative technology pedagogy. As we move beyond initial experimentation, how are we iterating our pedagogy in response to GenAI?

This virtual gathering is an opportunity to be in dialogue with other educators about teaching and learning with creative technologies. We will share what worked and didn’t work in our classrooms this past year and discuss opportunities and challenges for the upcoming semester, as we collectively navigate this evolving pedagogical terrain together.

This year focuses on two complementary approaches:

developing student engagement strategies that prioritize human creativity and critical thinking without GenAI, and
thoughtfully integrating GenAI as a tool within the creative process.

We’re particularly interested in how educators are applying D. Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning, including Learning How to Learn, Foundational Knowledge, Application, Integration, Human Dimension, and Caring, to (re)design courses, assignments, and assessments that remain meaningful in our GenAI landscape.

Dee Fink's Taxonomy of Significant Learning — L. Dee Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning

Source: Fink, L. Dee. Creating Significant Learning Experiences : An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses. Revised and Updated edition, Jossey-Bass, 2013, p. 48.

Our aim is to move beyond binary conversations of “we’ll use GenAI or ban it” to ask:

What kinds of student learning experiences must we design now so that students don’t just survive turbulent technological shifts, but thrive in them?
How do we craft assignments, develop assessment strategies, scaffold projects, and configure student engagement that align with D. Fink’s six kinds of significant learning, while acknowledging our GenAI reality?

Register to Attend

Zoom Events Registration Deadline: January 16, 2026

We invite you to join the conversation! Engage with peers tackling the same pressing questions and issues of creative tech pedagogy. The schedule, talk descriptions, and speaker details are forthcoming.

Any questions? Please contact De Angela L. Duff at deangela.duff@nyu.edu.

Learning to Teach Conference Series

The Learning to Teach conference series (2016-present) was founded at the School for Poetic Computation in partnership with the Processing Foundation for educators teaching in creative fields like computational art and design, creative technology, emerging media, and digital humanities. Documentation of previous Learning to Teach events can be found on the Processing Foundation site.