Democratising AI in practice
I’ve been researching multimodal literacies and democratising AI in […]
Practical genAI in videos for learning and assessment
I recently went along to a University of Liverpool symposium showcasing case studies of generative AI in teaching, learning and assessment. The presenters and audience were predominantly from an HE background but the content, augmented by the suggestions from other educators in the chat provided some great transferable ideas. The focus was on multimodal learning, which is academic speak for multimedia, apparently multimodal has more emphasis on the design and process (but when has a good educator ever really preferred style over substance!?) The big timesavers with the most impact were in using generative AI tools to speed up creating […]
Upcoming AI Pioneers and Joint Research Council Webinar
AI Pioneers, in collaboration with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), invites you to join a webinar on 17 February at 15:00 CET, exploring how evidence-based research and science are shaping the future of education and skills development across Europe. The JRC supports EU policies to positively impact education and society. This webinar offers an opportunity to learn more about: the scientific work JRC is delivering in relation to digital education and skills discover emerging trends and technologies impacting education understand the enablers for the digital transformation of Vocational and Education and Training This will be an interactive session […]
AI Pioneers Ethics Evaluation Schema now available
The project has developed a new evaluation schema that offers educators and organisations a critical compass for navigating AI in teaching and learning.
Educators Toolkit: Conker
One of our network members in Australia sent us […]
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Our next AI Pioneers network webinar will be on […]
What is the AI Pioneers Christmas number one?
As a festive treat for the AI Pioneers network I’ve compiled my Christmas top 5 resources from the project, there’s no rhyme, reason or clever data behind it other than that I happen to like them! From our Toolkit – Chat2Course I’ve made many online and offline courses and its a days work at a minimum to get the basic structure and objectives hashed out so this is a nice time saver, within 10 minutes I’d got learning objectives for 5 modules and content generated for two lessons before I ran out of tokens. It is based in ChatGTP […]
AI Literacy and Legislation
I’ve been interviewing the AI Pioneers team this week for the project’s annual evaluation and one thing that keeps coming up is the EU AI Act and the dynamics of responsibility. The EU AI Act became law on August 1, 2024. It says companies that make or use AI systems must ensure their employees and anyone else involved in operating those systems have enough knowledge about AI to do their job safely and effectively. Graham, George and I explored the definition of AI Literacy in our recent preprint AI and Education Agency, Motivation, Literacy and Democracy The European […]
AI Citizenship in VET
The next AI Pioneers Network webinar will be exploring the themes of democracy and citizenship around AI in vocational education and training. A couple of us have been working on a paper, the emergent themes are blogged about below… and this will un…
AI literacy and citizenship
In its broadest sense, literacy is the capacity to communicate with language, numbers and images and the use of those methods to understand and interact with the world. We have extended the concept of literacy to include domains such as digital literacy, financial literacy and media literacy. But what does this have to do with citizenship? As Robinson-Pant (2023) explains, ‘All too often, the term “literacy” is used in a metaphorical sense to mean “knowledge” or “learning” (as in the phrase “emotional literacy”), thus obscuring the ways in which reading, writing, constructing and decoding diverse texts may support – or […]
