Navigating a World of Generative AI: Suggestions for Educators

Date: Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Time: 11:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)

Generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges for education. In this webinar for educators, we aim to equip you with the insights and strategies needed to navigate this evolving landscape. We focus on instructional strategies to harness the benefits of AI while also nurturing the unique abilities of humans to tackle global challenges in the 21st century.

This webinar will help you to:

Demystify AI: Understand the capabilities and limitations of generative AI. Distinguish human intelligence from AI via analogies and illustrations.
Re-envision education: Embark on a paradigm shift, moving away from a product-focused approach to a process-focused model of education. Embrace the transformative power of the learning process and move beyond transactions where “learning products” are exchanged for grades.
Address concerns about plagiarism: Examine the decline of curiosity and intrinsic motivation in traditional education systems, and advocate for next-generation models of education that foster an ecosystem of motivation and learning.
Maximize educators’ impact: Explore the crucial role educators play in the AI-enhanced learning landscape. Discover concrete strategies to demystify AI, promote the learning process, honour learner agency and cultivate human skills that AI can’t replicate.

Tags: Generative AI Pedagogical Strategies Educational Innovation Ethical Considerations

Hosts:

Dr. Lydia Cao

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

Lydia Cao earned her PhD in Education from the University of Cambridge, England. Her research is situated at the intersection of innovative design, climate consciousness and the potential of technology, with interests that encompass climate education, design thinking, dialogue, technology that includes generative AI, and teacher education.

Lydia is currently studying the implications of generative AI for education and supporting teachers to navigate it in learning and teaching settings. Her ongoing research also includes redesigning climate education, understanding the role of “regenerative hope” as a vital resource to sustain climate actions, developing earth-centred design thinking, and harnessing dialogue to power environmentally conscious behaviours. In her doctoral studies, Lydia co-designed a professional development program with teachers in Pakistan that integrated mixed-reality simulations to foster dialogic teaching in science classrooms. Prior to pursuing research, she taught math and science in middle and high school in Canada.

Professor Chris Dede

Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

For 22 years, Chris Dede was the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies. His fields of scholarship include emerging technologies, policy and leadership. From 2001-2004, he was chair of the HGSE Department of Teaching and Learning. In 2007, he was honoured by Harvard University as an outstanding teacher, and in 2011 he was named a fellow of the American Educational Research Association.
In 2020 Chris co-founded the Silver Lining for Learning initiative (https://silverliningforlearning.org). He is currently a member of the OECD 2030 Scientific Committee and an advisor to the Alliance for the Future of Digital Learning, sponsored by the Mohammed bin Rashid Global Initiative (MBRGI). Chris is also Co-Principal Investigator and Associate Director for Research of the NSF-funded National Artificial Intelligence Institute in Adult Learning and Online Education.
His most recent co-edited books include: Teacher Learning in the Digital Age: Online Professional Development in STEM Education; Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Realities in Education; Learning Engineering for Online Education: Theoretical Contexts and Design-Based Examples; and The 60-Year Curriculum: New Models for Lifelong Learning in the Digital Economy.

Navigating a World of Generative AI: Suggestions for Educators

Navigating a World of Generative AI: Suggestions for Educators

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