Removing the course plans to rationalize school operations, artificial intelligence (IA) is no longer a distant concept – it is already there, and it evolves at a dizzying pace.
For educators across Australia, the real challenge is now not to get involved with AI, but how. While schools are trying to keep up with the pace of rapid technological changes, the need for confident and enlightened leadership may never have been greater.
Between June 16 and 19, Toddle will organize a virtual event which brings together more than 5,000 school heads, educators and innovators across Australia and New Zealand. The “AI In Action: Future Ready Schools” event will explore how AI revolutionizes education and how school heads can use these technologies to improve learning, improve operations and prepare students in the future.
The event will hear main speakers including Jan Owen, president and founder of the Create Australia apprenticeship; Toby Walsh, winner's winner and scientia professor of AI at UNSW; Dr. Nici Sweaney, founder of Ai Her Way; Adrian Cotterell, Director of AI & Assessment solutions; And Chris Bush, a Churchill Fellow, an AI consultant and a secondary school leader with more than a decade of experience in Melbourne.
The key themes of the event include:
- AI in education: Explore how AI transforms the design of the curriculum, personalized learning and administrative efficiency.
- Student agency and empowerment: Understanding how AI allows personalized learning, student autonomy and commitment.
- Ethics and responsibility: to unpack the ethical challenges of AI in schools.
- Practical implementation: acquire usable strategies to integrate AI into schools, from teacher training to class adoption.
“This change calls visionary leadership in schools”
Toby Walsh, ARS winner scholarship holder and AI scientia professor at UNSW, now offers the first opening session to AI in action at 4 p.m. AST today.
“The greatest added value of this event is to understand that we are in the midst of a technological revolution comparable to the industrial revolution,” the Walsh professor told the educator.
“Educators will need practical strategies to teach students to work alongside smart machines, because these technologies will affect almost all aspects of their future life.”
Walsh said this change calls for visionary leadership in schools, not just adaptation.
“The heads of school will have to direct the transformation of the AI, encourage and authorize teachers and students to adopt new AI technologies, to promote experimentation and to ensure its responsible use.”
For educators who feel hesitant about AI, the advice of Professor Walsh are simple.
“Breathe-it's not magic. Take your hands out with these tools because they are easier to understand than you think,” he said.
“And remember that even if computers can now surpass humans with specific tasks such as the transcription of Mandarin or the diagnosis of diseases, they lack empathy, adaptability and creativity – the characteristics that make education fundamentally human.”
For the future, Professor Walsh hopes that the event helps schools through Australia and New Zealand to “direct the global conversation on the way IA can actually raise education”.
“Above all, we have to focus on creativity, emotional intelligence and ethical reasoning that will keep our students in advance on machines.”
‘Not just another speech on AI'
Dr. Nici Sweaney, founder of AI Her Way, is a consultant and establishment head of the world's worldwide AI who combines nearly two decades of expertise as a university scientist and data strategist.
She says that the greatest value of the event “has in action: schools ready for future” is that it is not only another discourse on AI.
“I myself have tired of going to the” same conference on AI “again and again … and I mean by where everything is theory and everything on” we should start thinking about it “, told the educator Dr. Sweaney.
“What makes Touddle different is that it is a real and current impact – what is happening now, what works and where then.”
Dr. Speaney said that educators will not intend to talk about what AI could do; They will see what he is already doing in classrooms and school systems at the moment.
“More importantly, they will leave with a clearer idea in how to use it well-ethically, safely and strategically,” she said. “The value here is a practical exposure to a strong land setting up.”
Dr. Speaney said that AI in education is not only a tool, but “a complete change of systems”.
“This event will help educators understand how to make thoughtful decisions that protect their staff and students, maintain their professional integrity and position their schools as avant-garde without losing their humanity.”
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