Guiding educators through the practical and ethical implications of GenAI. Consultant & Author | PhD Candidate | Director @ Young Change Agents & Reframing Autism
A big week in the city working with Deakin University and VET Development Centre (VDC) on Digital Technologies and AI. On Monday and Tuesday I joined Sunil Aryal, PhD, FHEA and Mehul Warade from the Faculty of Information technology in delivering a two-day intensive as part of the Grad Cert in Digital Technologies, organised by Unit Chair Dr Carly Sawatzki and supported by Julianne Lynch and Maria Vamvakas. The course is designed for current secondary educators who are out-of-field in Digital Tech, with many coming from a Maths/Science/Humanities background. Partnering with the Faculty of Info Tech means that the teacher-students get a healthy dose of real world programming experience. My small role in the two days involved looking at how contemporary tools (GenAI, of course) can play a role in Digital Tech instruction, creating resources, problem solving, and differentiation. Then today I headed down the road to VDC, where I worked with the Fellows in a hands-on workshop covering multimodal generative AI in the context of vocational education for secondary and adult learners. One of the best parts (other than blowing a few minds with what GenAI is already capable of) was that we created a number of immediately useful resources from assessment items through to this very simple (and VDC coloured!) resource collection with the tools we addressed on the day: https://lnkd.in/gAKQt2Mp Time to go home! ✈️ #artificialintelligence #education #qualification #teachers #digital #AI #vocationaleducation #VET
