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WORKSHOP ON THE USE OF AI

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^{“Thank you so much. It was a real revelation.”} Tannya Pico (PhD), participant in a (crash) course on the use of AI for desktop research

^{‘I want AI to do my laundry and dishes, so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do the laundry and dishes.’}
Joanna Maciejewska, poet




Are you curious for more? Would you like to get in touch? Feel free to contact our lead directly for any questions or inquiries you may have. Tikvah Breimer (MSc MAEd MSc) Director tikvah@studioblended.com +31 6 42 47 29 69

Image: Innovation adoption model. Based on the model developed by Everett Rogers (Diffusion of Innovations, 1962), with the "chasm" concept introduced by James & Schirtzinger (Regis McKenna, Inc.) in the late 1980s and later popularized by Geoffrey Moore (Crossing the Chasm, 1991).

Are you an academic researcher and new to AI? Perhaps you consider yourself a ‘laggar’, and you feel like you’re too slow or skeptical and are falling behind. Or perhaps, you are simply such a novice, that you have no idea where to even begin. 

Or alternatively, perhaps you are a head of department, and see how your research team is struggling with FUDD: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt and Disinformation - around the use of AI.

We offer a workshop on the use of ‘AI’ especially for academic researchers who feel like ‘dummies’ in AI - with differentiation activities for those who already tested the water more.

The workshop focuses on academic writing, but is very relevant also for your teaching practice such as when doing literature reviews and research work in a diversity of resources.

This is not a side-step from Education. 

AI has become unescapable, whether you use it or not. And it can free up time for you.

Why is this workshop unique?

This workshop is unique as it offers a pedagogically guided, step by step, introduction for novice (and advanced) academic users of AI.

Since AI is such a quickly changing field, with such a vast amount of technological knowledge, and so many pressing public debates, that the risk of a workshop is to get stranded in a lot of explanations about what AI is and how it works, whilst still participants do not get how to get started with AI.

Instead, therefore, this bespoke workshop, flips the logic around, and is entirely task based. Through the do-ing, comes understanding. Following authentic questions from the group, brief knowledge-intermezzo’s are held, whilst the lion share of the knowledge is preserved for the end in the form of a follow up briefing to help participants get started with exploring for themselves.

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FACTS AND FIGURES

Startingdate: we can determine the best moment with you

Duration: one morning or afternoon (4 hours)

For who: for your team of academic lecturers/researchers or any relevant constellation of academics who are fairly new to the use of AI.

Price: €1250 excl VAT lumpsum (with a maximum of 10 participants, half a day)
See below for a breakdown

Language: English

Location: we agree on a suitable location together
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TRANSFORMATION

Today, universities are under immense pressure, and so, by default, you as an academic researcher and lecturer are too. Nature (2025) writes: ‘Faculty members are facing ever bigger workloads and intense competition for funding as research budgets are squeezed. Tightening visa regulations are undermining global (...) researcher mobility, while academic freedom is coming under pressure from politicians who see universities as unrepresentative of all parts of the social and political spectrum.’

AI has the potential to free up time for you when working on your literature reviews and publications.

The challenge we often time see with academics, is simply, where to start. Especially when you feel resistance, or even feel fear such as for privacy matters. Perhaps the growing amount of policy, at European level, at your university level and facultly level, is scaring you too.

Ethically speaking you cannot be forced to use AI or force others to use it (such as your students). It must always be a free choice. But equally, if you don’t know it, do you truly have agency over your choice to use it or not?

We approach entering the AI scene, in a playful way. With us, you finally start to be able to orientate yourself in the world of AI, without feeling like you’re in the middle of an avalanche of information.

We bring back simplicity. 

We also bring back craftmanship, rather than taking it away.
Writing is not technical only, it is equally an art. AI actually can amplify what makes us human. As Stabel (2025) writes: ‘There's a peculiar paradox here: AI [A technology] forces us to consider what is truly human in education. We must learn to trust ourselves more. And perhaps that will lead to a revaluation of craftsmanship and human expertise.’

In this workshop we don’t take that away from you, instead, quite to the contrary, we create more space and time for you, to actually enjoy your writing. As the philosopher Richard Sennett (2009) writes about how the hand can think. His work is an exploration of craftsmanship - the desire to do a job well for its own sake - as a template for living.

We offer this AI workshop so that you can get started. And become smarter with your time, energy and cost investment, whilst you’re also better aware of what to do and what not to do with your published and unpublished work.

How is this AI workshop different from what you can already find on the market? This workshop is unique on the market in that it follows a thorough pedagogy and step by step approach for novices.
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PROGRAM FOR THE PARTICIPANTS

Prior to the workshop, as a way to ‘flip the classroom’, participants receive an invitation and an infographic, to identify themselves in the adoption model of innovation.

A hands-on 4 hour exclusive and bespoke hands-on session for your curated group. Rather than opening with a talk, we start with movement and then the group is taken through step by step tasks. Through the peer exchanges, and group exchanges that are guided organically, coupled with mini-talks, knowledge, understanding and skill of AI is acquired.

There is a differentiation space for those who are already more familiar with AI, as they dive into so called ‘local AI’.

The workshop ends with all groups coming together for a closure, coupled with exposure to which words you shouldn’t use anymore in academic writing, whether you use or don’t use AI.
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PROGRAM WITH YOU AS COORDINATOR

We follow the following set-up

Prior to delivery, we have a scoping call / in person meeting to co-create a bespoke workshop for your team, and define what success looks like.

Afterwards, we have both an immediate touch based, and a reflection session remotely with you as coordinator, evaluating impact and spin-off. We usually do this 1 season after the workshop for the most authentic and genuine evaluation and way forward.
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MEET THE TRAINERS AND THEIR EXPERTISE

Tikvah Breimer (MSc MAEd MSc) is an independent senior advisor, teacher trainer, and director of STUDIOBLENDED.

The graphic designer is part of the freelancer pool.
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PRICE

The full package, is €1250,- excl VAT (21%), excl travel costs and excl material costs (printing posters). The package price includes the graphic designer.

We expect our clients on location to provide for:
- A suitable venue on campus [alternatively we can suggest an attractive venue outside]
- Flipchards and flipchart paper (number depending on group size)
- Markers, notes that can be attached to paper
- A projector and a screen
- Refreshments and - where applicable - lunch
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CONTACT

Feel free to email or call our director directly. Tikvah Breimer (MSc MAEd MSc) tikvah@studioblended.com
+31 6 42 47 29 69



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KEY PROJECTS

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REFERENCES

European University Association (EUA) 2025. ‘How universities can protect and promote academic freedom. EUA principles and guidelines’. 

Everett Rogers (1962) Diffusion of Innovations. Illinoia, U.S.: Free Press of Glencoe.

Landymore, F. (2025) ‘ChatGPT has already polluted the internet so badly that it’s hobbling future AI development’. Futurism, June 16. Available:
https://futurism.com/chatgpt-polluted-ruined-ai-development (Accessed: October 27, 2025).

Geoffrey Moore (1991) Crossing the Chasm. HarperCollins Publishers. London and New York.

James, L.R. and Schirtzinger, W. 1980s. Crossing the Chasm. Sunnyvale, California: Regis McKenna, Inc.. 

Liboreiro, Jorge (2025) ‘Choose Europe’, von der Leyen tells US scientists threatened by Trump policies’ Euro News, May 5. Available: https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/05/05/choose-europe-von-der-leyen-tells-us-scientists-threatened-by-trumps-policies?utm_source=chatgpt.com (Accessed: October 27, 2025).


Nature (2025) ‘The future of universities’. September 24, 2025. Available: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03065-w (Accessed: October 27, 2025).


Senett, R. (2009) The Craftsman. City of Westminster, London: Penguin Books.

Stabel, K. (2025) ‘Education in the Age of AI: A plea for Craftsmanship’. Blogpost by deputy director of Risbo, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Available: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/education-age-ai-plea-craftmanship-kris-stabel-qq7le/ (Accessed: October 27, 2025)

Liu, D. and Bridgeman, A. (2025). ‘What to do about assessments if we can’t out-design or out-run AI?’ University of Sydney. Available: https://educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au/teaching@sydney/what-to-do-about-assessments-if-we-cant-out-design-or-out-run-ai/ (Accessed: October 27, 2025).

Universiteiten van Nederland (2025). Statement on Academic freedom - the Rectors of the Dutch Universities  Available: https://www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/en/current/news/statement-on-academic-freedom-the-rectors-of-the-dutch-universities-2025#:~:text=Freedom%20of%20thought%2C%20expression%2C%20and,integrity%2C%20quality%2C%20and%20professionalism. (Accessed: October 27, 2025).

Winter, de J. C. F., Dodou, D., & Stienen, A. H. A. (2023). ChatGPT in education: Empowering educators through methods for recognition and assessment.

World Resources Institute 2025, AI can help or harm the planet. It’s up to us. Blog entry.

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