English Teachers' Day - Morning Session: Surprises and Mistakes Are Possible: Teaching in the Age of AI - Open Panel Discussion

Zielsetzung / Objectifs

Knowledge
The participants will learn:
- what Large Language Models are and do
- the pitfalls and potential benefits of teaching and learning languages and studying literature.

Know-how
The participants will be able to help their students to make more informed decisions about when and how they may use AI tools and content.

Posture
The participants will:
- get a greater awareness of what generative AI tools such as ChatGPT can and cannot do
- get information about strategies as well as activities, assignment, and assessment models designed to allow students to experiment and explore AI tools and to assess the validity and reliability of AI-generated content.

Inhalt / Contenu

This workshop explores the impact on teaching and learning of the rapid development and availability of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT. The workshop will combine a brief introduction focusing on how Large Language Models (LLM) generate answers to queries and interact with users with an open panel discussion of the (new) challenges and opportunities artificial intelligence poses for educators. We are specifically interested in exchanging best practices and approaches to helping students in both secondary and higher education to navigate this new reality.

program:
- 08:15 Registration
- 08:45 Welcome speech
- 08:50 Keynote speech – Nik Peachey, "AI in the Classroom: Challenges and Opportunities" (OUP)
- 09:45 Coffee break
- 10:00 Workshops
- 11:30 JBK Young Teacher Award ceremony
- 11:45 Lunch break
13:00 Keynote speech – Alex Warren, "For What it’s Earth - Incorporating Sustainability Education into EAP Classrooms" (National Geographic Learning)
- 14:00 Coffee break
- 14:15 Workshops
- 15:45 Plenary (+prize draw).

Arbeitsformen / Approche méthodologique

For the purposes of this workshop, we posit that ‘AI is here to stay’, and that we need to find a balance between regulation (legislation) and self-regulation (promoting AI literacy) in this domain. The open panel discussion chosen as a methodology for this workshop is intended to initiate an open exchange of ideas about how to deal with generative AI tools in everyday teaching situations.

Referent, Referentin / Formateur, formatrice

Agnès Prüm, Anne-Marie Millim, Alistair Plum (uni.lu)