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This week Catherine and Mike are joined by Dr Bianca Kronemann and Dr Steven Forrest who present A step into the future, an AdvanceHE funded project which explore personalised student education and career pathways using AI and virtual reality, to solve global sustainability challenges. As well as numerous quality project outcomes, they will share hints and tips to take on board!
Bianca is a lecturer at Hull University Business School and researches the societal implications of artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on how AI shapes decision-making and learning. Within the Step into the Future project, she contributes expertise on the responsible and critical use of AI in educational settings. Bianca has worked with industry partners including Google and Wired Consulting, and has helped make complex AI issues accessible to wider audiences through public engagement, including a podcast with the BBC.
Steven is a lecturer in the Energy and Environment Institute and is Programme Director for the MSc in Flood Risk Management. Steven researches and teaches on the role of civil society in flood resilience, sustainable transformations post-disaster, creative engagement tools (including serious board games), and the role of digital technologies for addressing sustainability challenges.
Bianca: “We don’t need to become an AI expert to tackle this but I think we should encourage students to do it in any capacity they want to but then fulfil our responsibility as an educator to challenge them to review the output of what they get out of this because we are the expert in the field […] and reflect together critically on this… whether I want to use it personally or not, I need to engage with whatever is coming out of AI… “
Steven:” When designing assessment, be aware of AI and recognise that the days when you could set an assignment and be confident that no-one had used AI are maybe behind us! Make our assessment more inclusive and integrate AI into them. A step before that, think about how we teach students AI responsibly; that’s taking into account the environmental costs and impact e.g. water, carbon emissions; as well as in terms of ethical issues; some students won’t want to use AI for ethical reasons and as educators we need to be prepared for that and offer alternative means to do the same activity and be sensitive to that.”
Relevant links
A step into the future: AI in classroom teaching | Advance HE
https://youtu.be/_NZcG9lfBKc
https://youtu.be/uVnTVDg3478
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By Teaching Excellence Academy, University of HullThis week Catherine and Mike are joined by Dr Bianca Kronemann and Dr Steven Forrest who present A step into the future, an AdvanceHE funded project which explore personalised student education and career pathways using AI and virtual reality, to solve global sustainability challenges. As well as numerous quality project outcomes, they will share hints and tips to take on board!
Bianca is a lecturer at Hull University Business School and researches the societal implications of artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on how AI shapes decision-making and learning. Within the Step into the Future project, she contributes expertise on the responsible and critical use of AI in educational settings. Bianca has worked with industry partners including Google and Wired Consulting, and has helped make complex AI issues accessible to wider audiences through public engagement, including a podcast with the BBC.
Steven is a lecturer in the Energy and Environment Institute and is Programme Director for the MSc in Flood Risk Management. Steven researches and teaches on the role of civil society in flood resilience, sustainable transformations post-disaster, creative engagement tools (including serious board games), and the role of digital technologies for addressing sustainability challenges.
Bianca: “We don’t need to become an AI expert to tackle this but I think we should encourage students to do it in any capacity they want to but then fulfil our responsibility as an educator to challenge them to review the output of what they get out of this because we are the expert in the field […] and reflect together critically on this… whether I want to use it personally or not, I need to engage with whatever is coming out of AI… “
Steven:” When designing assessment, be aware of AI and recognise that the days when you could set an assignment and be confident that no-one had used AI are maybe behind us! Make our assessment more inclusive and integrate AI into them. A step before that, think about how we teach students AI responsibly; that’s taking into account the environmental costs and impact e.g. water, carbon emissions; as well as in terms of ethical issues; some students won’t want to use AI for ethical reasons and as educators we need to be prepared for that and offer alternative means to do the same activity and be sensitive to that.”
Relevant links
A step into the future: AI in classroom teaching | Advance HE
https://youtu.be/_NZcG9lfBKc
https://youtu.be/uVnTVDg3478
Thank you for taking time to listen to our podcast. We hope you enjoy it.
If you have not subscribed yet, please do and share it with anyone you think might enjoy.
Cup of TEA artwork created by Layla Jabbari
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.