Is Our Culture Ready For The AI Change?

This week I had the pleasure and privilege to speak to many international school leaders at the ECIS Leadership Conference in Düsseldorf about AI in Education. The theme of the conference was “Culture and Change” and it was an inspiring and engaging opportunity to connect (and reconnect) with really thoughtful school leaders. Huge thanks to ECIS for organising this, and for the opportunity to share.

This was a pre-dinner speech, and I promised a screencast of the slides for participants. I sound pretty tired in the recording, because I’m wiped out, and have expanded on the slides to unpack a few ideas.

I wonder what this presentation would look like a year from now. Apologies for some dodgy sound-mixing with a couple of videos in the demonstrations.

Resources:

• ECIS AI page, for the breakout session I co-hosted with Jim Ellis
• WAB AI Resources
• And have a look at the other posts on this page, and my mega-thread of explorations.

Some of the links and tools referenced in the talk

Accessible Classroom Tools:

• PerplexityAI
• Elicit
• Diffit
• Education CoPilot
• ChatPDF

Demonstrations in the Slides:

• AgentGPT – GPT-based agents
• ElevensLab – Voice synthesis
• Skybox Lab – Generate VR Scenes
• LumaLabs – Generate 3D renders from 2D images using NeRF
• Pix2Pix – video editing with diffusion models

People

• Prof. Maha Bali – Critical AI Literacies
• Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton – The Age Of Postplagiarism
• Prof. Ethan Mollick – One Useful Thing (AI explorations)

Sites/Resources

• WAB AI Resources – Teachers – Ethics & Integrity
• Dalton Flanagan’s AI Tools for Teachers
• Ecolint’s AI Resources
• Frankfurt International School’s Student AI Symposium

HuggingFace – Open-Source ML Community

• Blog – including discussions of bias and equity
• Spaces – working models and demonstratrions
• Ethics & Society Showcase

Related Posts

• We Don’t Need An AI Policy (integrity lives with the Academic Integrity Policy)
• What Are Universities Thinking About AI?
• (If You) USEME-AI model for adapting to AI in schools\
• PerplexityAI as an Inquiry Engine
• Using AI Tools to Support Inclusion & Multilingual Learners
• Using AI Tools for Feedback
• Thinking Routines for an AI Classroom
• /imagine – Getting Going in Midjourney