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AI Literacies in Practice Series

Confident and Creative AI Literacies

August 13, 2026 | 1:00 PM EDT | 1 Hour

What You Create With AI Changes What You're Ready For Next


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Speakers

Dr. Angela Gunder

CEO & Founder, Opened Culture

Dr. Angela Gunder

CEO & Founder, Opened Culture

Angela Gunder, Ph.D., is the CEO and founder of Opened Culture, a pioneering collaboratory dedicated to empowering stakeholders across the educational ecosystem to advance academic innovation and cultures of openness. She is also an online instructor at The University of Arizona where she has been teaching in Brightspace for over a decade.

Dr. Cristi Ford

Chief Learning Officer

Dr. Cristi Ford

Chief Learning Officer

Dr. Cristi Ford serves as the Chief Learning Officer at D2L. She brings more than 20 years of cumulative experience in higher education, secondary education, project management, program evaluation, training and student services to her role. In this role, she offers thought leadership and direction to the academic affairs unit of the organization. Her previous roles have allowed her to have impact in education from secondary and higher education settings within North America and as part of the international landscape. Her reach has allowed her to focus on building online education in the US and in Africa.

In addition to her experience building new online learning programs and research related to online teaching and learning, Dr. Ford possesses significant experience in the design and delivery of integrated educational support, training and transition services for young adults and children with neurodevelopment disabilities.

Dr. Ford was selected by the Online Learning Consortium as the 2022 OLC Fellow (the highest professional distinction offered by the association). She is a tireless advocate for quality online education and has leveraged her passion and expertise in many realms in the education space. She is known for utilizing her leadership in extraordinary ways to help institutions build capacity to launch and expand online programming through effective faculty development, instructional design and pedagogical practices.

Dr. Ford holds a PhD in Educational Leadership from the University of Missouri-Columbia and undergraduate and graduate degrees in the field of Psychology from Hampton University and University of Baltimore, respectively.

Dr. Ruben Puentedura

Founder and President, Hippasus

Mychelle Pride

Academic Director, The Open University

About This Webinar

Most people assume confidence comes first — that you need to feel ready before you can start creating with AI. But AI literacies are not something you stockpile before you act. They are built through the act itself. Every time you experiment with an AI tool, take a creative risk, or push back on an output that doesn’t sit right, you are developing the very confidence that makes the next experiment possible. This session explores why creative and confident AI literacies grow together, and why waiting to feel ready is the one thing that gets in the way.

What You’ll Learn

Any Entry Point Is a Valid Starting Place

One of the biggest barriers to AI engagement is the belief that you need to already know what you’re doing before you begin. Confident AI literacies challenge that assumption. They ask what changes when learners and educators approach AI with a willingness to experiment, to push back when the tool gets it wrong, and to trust their own judgment even when the output sounds authoritative. This session explores how confidence grows through experience, not before it.

Creativity as Discovery, Not Just Production

Creative AI literacies are about more than generating content. They are about taking new approaches to problems, testing unexpected uses for familiar tools, and making deliberate choices about which ideas are worth developing and why. This session explores what opens up when people use AI not to finish faster but to imagine further.

Two Dimensions That Feed Each Other

You can’t create with AI unless you’re willing to try, and every act of creation builds the readiness to try something harder next time. These two dimensions feed each other in ways that are hard to see until you’re in the middle of them. This session traces that cycle from first experiment to growing capability and invites participants to find themselves in it.

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