Resisting AI in Sustainability Teaching
Thursday, March 12, 2026 1:00pm - 2:15pm ET (online)
WEBINAR RECORDING (Available to U of T members)
In this webinar we reject the fait accompli framing of AI in the classroom and illustrate the manifold ways AI is antithetical to the project of genuine sustainability and sustainability pedagogy more specifically. With insights from Christoph Becker, Vera Khovanskaya, and Eric Baumer we explore (a) the material impacts of AI, that is, the social and ecological consequences of these technologies that are often (intentionally) obscured, (2) the implications of institutional policies in higher ed that amount to a wholesale, often unreflexive, embrace of AI, and (3) how to push-back against AI in the classroom, and beyond.
This free webinar is hosted by the Community of Practice on Sustainability Teaching at the University of Toronto, one of the initiatives of the Teaching & Learning Sub-Committee of the CECCS, in collaboration with the Just Sustainability Design Lab and the Labour Process and Technology Lab.