Teaching With AI in Rural Community Colleges: A Practical Guide for Workforce Education and Career-technical Programs

by Caroline Scott

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This guide documents what happened when a small rural community college spent a year taking generative AI seriously. It grew out of the recurring question a handful of overcommitted faculty kept asking each other in hallways and over email: what is this thing actually doing to our students, and what, if anything, should we do about it?

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Publisher
College of the Siskiyous
Subjects
Workforce
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Tweens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. About This Guide
  7. Who This Guide Is For
  8. Why Rural and CTE Programs Need Their Own Approach
  9. What You Will Find Here
  10. 1: The Rural Context
  11. 1.1: Place Matters
  12. 1.2: The Workforce Mission
  13. 2: AI Applications for Rural Contexts
  14. 2.1: Teaching Prompting and AI Literacy
  15. 2.2: Solving the Access Problem
  16. 2.3: Simulations and Clinical Training
  17. 2.4: Accessibility Without Dedicated Staff
  18. 3: AI in Career-Technical Education
  19. 3.1: Principles for CTE Programs
  20. 3.2: Emergency Medical Services
  21. 3.3: Fire Technology
  22. 3.4: Welding and Manufacturing
  23. 3.5: Nursing and Allied Health
  24. 3.6: Agriculture and Natural Resources
  25. 3.7: Automotive Technology
  26. 3.8: Administration of Justice
  27. 4: Policy and Ethics
  28. 4.1: Developing AI Policies That Work
  29. 4.2: Ethical Considerations
  30. 4.3: Universal Design for Learning
  31. 5: Professional Development and Lessons Learned
  32. 5.1: Building Faculty Capacity
  33. 5.2: What We Learned
  34. 5.3: Implementation Considerations for Rural Contexts
  35. 5.4: What Is Not Ready Yet
  36. 5.5: Starting Points
  37. 5.6: Ethics in Practice
  38. 6: Quick Reference Materials
  39. 6.1: Sample CTE Policy Language
  40. 6.2: Reflection Prompt Options
  41. 6.3: Workshop Activity- Map Your Program to the AI Scale
  42. 6.4: Key Resources
  43. 6.5: About Our Project
  44. Back Matter
  45. References
  46. Index
  47. Glossary
  48. Detailed Licensing
  49. Detailed Licensing