In my last post I mentioned the UNESCO Digital Learning Week, taking place in Paris next week and amongst other things including a series of discussion about AI in education. It seems over 1800 people have registered to attend the event face to face. However for those of us not lucky enough to be in Paris some of the sessions are being made available by web cast in English and French. You can find the full program including details of of which sessions are on the webcast on the UNESCO Digital Learning Week web pages. And to make things easy for you I have extracted from the extensive programme a list of the sessions around AI in Education which can be followed by webcast (the address for the webcast is not currently available but I expect it to be linked from the programme by next week).

Tuesday 5 September

10:45 – 11:15
DIGITAL LEARNING AND AI IN EDUCATION: UNESCO’S INTEGRATED APPROACH
Moderator: Mr Fengchun Miao, Chief, Unit for Technology and AI in Education, Future of Learning and Innovation, UNESCO

Ms Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO

Mr Manos Antoninis, Director, Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, UNESCO

Mr Sobhi Tawil, Director of Future of Learning and Innovation, UNESCO

Wednesday 6 September

11:30 – 13:00
Plenary session 4
EduGPT: the missing middleware?
Moderator: TBC

(Title to be announced)
Representative from Alef Education, UAE

Merlyn Mind’s education-specific AI platform
Mr Satya Nitta, CEO, Merlyn Mind, USA

EduChat: A large-scale language model-based chatbot system for intelligent education
Ms Yuling Sun, Associate Researcher, East China Normal University, People’s Republic of China

MathGPT – The core engine for next-generation personalized tutor
Mr TIAN Mi, Chief Technology Officer, Tomorrow Advancing Life Education Group (TAL)

14:00 – 15:30
Plenary session 5
AI COMPETENCIES FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS
Moderator: Mr Yao Ydo, Director, UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)
Presentations of draft UNESCO AI Competency Frameworks for teachers and students:

Mr Fengchun Miao, Chief, Unit for Technology and AI in Education, Future of Learning and Innovation, UNESCO

Ms Kelly Shiohira and Ms Natalie Lao, experts for the UNESCO AI Competency Framework for School Students

Mr Mutlu Cukurova and Ms Shafika Isaacs, experts for the UNESCO AI Competency Framework for Teachers
Reactions:

Ms Ramza Jaber, Chief of Cabinet, Minister of Education and Higher Education, Lebanon

Ms Lindiwe Matlali, Founder & CEO, Africa Teen Geeks, South Africa

Mr Pedro Philippi Araújo, Student, XôDengue project, Brazil

Representative from Education International (TBC)

Thursday 7 September

9:30 – 11:00
Plenary session 6
REGULATING AND FACILITATING THE USE OF GENERATIVE AI IN EDUCATION
Moderator: TBC

Ms Gabriela Ramos, Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO

H.E. Mr Murhaf Al-Madani, Assistant Minister of Education for Development and Transformation, Saudi Arabia (TBC)

Ms Sindey Carolina Bernal, Vice-minister of Digital Transformation, Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies, Colombia

Ms Mona Laroussi, Director, Institut de la Francophonie pour l’éducation et la formation (IFEF-OIF), Senegal

Mr Villano Qiriazi, Head of Education Policy Division, Council of Europe (TBC)

Mr Yonah Welker, Tech Explorer, Public Evaluator, Board Member, Future of Algorithms, Research & Policy

People’s Republic of China Regulations on GenAI (TBC)

11:00 – 11:30 LAUNCH OF UNESCO GUIDANCE FOR GENERATIVE AI IN EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

16:00 – 17:25
Public lecture and dialogue
REIMAGINING THE FUTURES OF KNOWLEDGE AND RESEARCH WITH GENERATIVE AI
Moderator: TBC
Keynote addresses:

The potential danger of unsafe AI systems beyond ChatGPT
Mr Yoshua Bengio, Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at Université de Montréal and the Founder and Scientific
Director of Mila – Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute, 2018 A.M. Turing Award laureate

(Title to be announced)
Mr Yann LeCun, Vice President & Chief AI Scientist, Meta, 2018 A.M. Turing Award laureate
Reactions and dialogue:

H.E. Ms Ester Anna Nghipondoka, Minister of Education, Arts and Culture, Namibia

H.E. Mr Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, UAE

 

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