Open Seminar Series: Emerging Challenges in Education - Addressing the challenges and opportunity of Artificial Intelligence
Time
16.9.2024 at 9.15 - 10.45
Driven largely by new technologies, the world is experiencing wide-ranging social, economic, and political transformations. The speed, intensity and reach of changes are unprecedent, affecting most aspects of our lives, including education. In education, major challenges have emerged at the level not only of policy and governance but also with learning, teaching, and assessment.
In this series of seminars, Visting Professor Fazal Rizvi will hold critical conversations with a range of scholars at the University of Turku, focusing on such issues as the changing nature of work, artificial intelligence, environmental crisis, shifting youth cultures and populism and their challenges for educational policy and practice, and the ways in which we might address them.
1. Seminar: Addressing the challenges and opportunity of Artificial Intelligence
In recent years, the developments in generative Artificial Intelligence have given rise to some serious concerns in education, especially relating to student assessment, and about the datafication of education, sideling ethical and cultural aspects of education. Equally however, many scholars have begun to consider the potential of AI is transforming learning processes, making it more effective and efficient and promoting creativity and innovation. Others have explored how the risks associated with AI can be dealt with. This session will discuss the origins of AI, its various uses, both actual and potential, and the ways in which its challenges might be mitigated and its potential enhanced.
Discussants: Prof. Fazal Rizvi & Doctoral Researcher Mikko Haavisto (Department of Teacher Education), chair Lauri Lehtonen (Department of Teacher Education)
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Professor Rizvi has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Turku over the past five years. He is an Emeritus Professor in Education at the University of Melbourne in Australia and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. He has written extensively on globalization and education policy, identity and culture in transnational contexts, internationalization of higher education, and social transformations in Education.
In this series of seminars, Visting Professor Fazal Rizvi will hold critical conversations with a range of scholars at the University of Turku, focusing on such issues as the changing nature of work, artificial intelligence, environmental crisis, shifting youth cultures and populism and their challenges for educational policy and practice, and the ways in which we might address them.
1. Seminar: Addressing the challenges and opportunity of Artificial Intelligence
In recent years, the developments in generative Artificial Intelligence have given rise to some serious concerns in education, especially relating to student assessment, and about the datafication of education, sideling ethical and cultural aspects of education. Equally however, many scholars have begun to consider the potential of AI is transforming learning processes, making it more effective and efficient and promoting creativity and innovation. Others have explored how the risks associated with AI can be dealt with. This session will discuss the origins of AI, its various uses, both actual and potential, and the ways in which its challenges might be mitigated and its potential enhanced.
Discussants: Prof. Fazal Rizvi & Doctoral Researcher Mikko Haavisto (Department of Teacher Education), chair Lauri Lehtonen (Department of Teacher Education)
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Professor Rizvi has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Turku over the past five years. He is an Emeritus Professor in Education at the University of Melbourne in Australia and Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. He has written extensively on globalization and education policy, identity and culture in transnational contexts, internationalization of higher education, and social transformations in Education.