Date and time: 21 May 2024
Time: 4.15pm to 5.00pm
Location: SZLT, Cheng Kin Ku Building, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields
The three key areas for discussion in this panel are:
- Learning with AI: Can AI chatbots be effective partners in learning? Do they act like a crutch or are these tools effective catalysts for critical thinking and deep understanding?
- Beyond the Hype: AI Literacy and Responsible Development: How can we ensure equitable access to AI tools and prepare students for an AI-powered future? This includes exploring potential biases in AI systems and how educational institutions can harness AI responsibly.
- The Future of Skills: Redefining Learning Objectives The rise of AI compels us to re-evaluate the skillsets students need. While AI excels at tasks requiring recall, what about fostering creativity, critical thinking, and effective communication? This panel will explore how AI can empower educators to cultivate these essential human capabilities in the next generation.
Panel details:
Speaker: Sue Attewell, Head of AI and co-design, JISC
Sue Attewell is the co-leader of the National Centre for AI in tertiary education where she is actively involved in driving the advancement of AI capabilities within member institutions. The centre plays a critical role in this regard by providing thought leadership, piloting AI products, and conducting sector-focused research.
Speaker: Dr Steven Watson, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
Steven Watson ia an Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Education. His research in social systems theory examines complex educational and societal issues, viewing entities as systems interacting with their environment. His current focus is on AI's impact on education and society, treating generative AI as an autopoietic system, a mediator between individuals and society, emphasizing AI's role within a broader interconnected system.
Speaker: Dr Mairéad Pratschke, Professor and Chair in Digital Education, University of Manchester
Mairéad is Chair in Digital Education in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester. Her career has straddled the worlds of higher education, education technology, professional and continuing education, and edtech start-ups. She is focused on how we can leverage digital pedagogies to support educational innovation using emerging technologies. Her book, Generative AI and Education: digital pedagogies, teaching innovation and learning design, is slated for publication in 2024.
Chair: Dr Jonathan Cardoso-Silva, Assistant Professor (Education), Data Science Institute, LSE
Jonathan Cardoso-Silva is an Assistant Professorial Lecturer in the Data Science Institute. His research focuses on Generative AI tools in education. Along with Dr Marcos Barreto, Assistant Professor at LSE Department of Statistics, he leads GENIAL - a research project assesses the effectiveness of generative AI tools as a catalyst for learning. Before joining LSE, he acted as the lead data scientist at a Brazilian data science consultancy start-up (Data Science Brigade) in commercial and research projects that involved forecast, regression, classification, and clustering of static and temporal structured data, as well as text documents.