Artificial intelligence as a teacher’s workmate – starting to use AI in teaching

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Third-party on-site course

Artificial intelligence as a teacher’s workmate – starting to use AI in teaching

This course will help you improve your digital competencies to efficiently teach with/for AI and integrate it into your classes. Working in teams, doing personalized projects and learning through direct experience with different AI tools, this hands-on course combines academic high-level knowledge even with some cultural discoveries.

Last updated: 29.10.2024

Finland , Uusimaa , Helsinki

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Description

The emergency of artificial intelligence during the last year has been paramount. There are endless ways to benefit from AI but possibly the greatest promise of AI is finally in education.

This course is developed for teachers who are taking their first steps in exploiting AI in their work. Interest into the topic is the most crucial criteria for participation and teaching levels from upper secondary schools to universities of applied sciences are preferred. The course applies EU DigiComp 2.2 as the background framework. And it exploits the findings of the European Commission’s AI in education Squad (2023) plus the Finnish pedagogy approach.

Get ready to learn about AI, make new connections, grow your professional network and find out what made two of the top countries in PISA reach such amazing educational results. During the 5 days of the course, we will be developing competencies in information and data literacy, communication and collaboration for AI in education, safety in an AI world, problem solving with AI and digital content creation with AI support. Join us in a winter wonder course where you will feel the power of community and become an expert in teaching for AI!

· Improve your understanding of key AI competences as per the DigComp 2.2

· Try out various inspiring methods you can directly apply in your own teaching

· Gain practical competences in teaching for AI

· Exchange with and learn from other teachers from all over Europe

· Visit two countries, experience the authentic Christmas atmosphere in Helsinki and Tallinn

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Learning objectives

· Improve your understanding of key AI competences as per the DigComp 2.2

· Try out various inspiring methods you can directly apply in your own teaching

· Gain practical competences in teaching for AI

· Exchange with and learn from other teachers from all over Europe

· Visit two countries, experience the authentic Christmas atmosphere in Helsinki and Tallinn

Methodology & assessment

Course program:

DAY 1: Monday: Orientation to AI in education

· Arrival & registration

· Breaking the ice!

· Welcome to Finland - some practical issues to make your life easier!

· SYKLI Environmental College: Adult Vocational training – a Speedway to green & digital transition?

· LUNCH (at own expense)

· Orientation: What is AI? How does it work and even teach?

· Getting familiar with conversational AI (ChatGPT and Google Bard especially)

DAY 2: Tuesday. Getting touch

· Examples of AI in Edu: What can we learn?

· Workshop1: Picture (video) generation

o Tools, prompt engineering, copyright issues

· LUNCH (at own expense)

· Workshop2: Conversational AI in teaching

o Tools, prompt engineering

o Creating learning materials

o Creating learning tasks

DAY 3: Wednesday: Finding your ways to use AI

· Workshop3: More specific use of AI

o Using AI with Office tools

o Teaching&learning languages

o Some short insights to coding

· LUNCH (at own expense)

· Workshop4: Examples and trials of AI based software in education and in teachers’ work

o Synthesia, Knowji, Fetchy, Gradescope etc. etc.

· Safety in an AI world

DAY 4: Thursday: Groupworking for AI innovations

· Forming groups according to chosen special topics

· Diving deep into the topic

· LUNCH (at own expense)

· Understanding current possibilities

· Recognising future needs

· Sharing the results

· Wrap-up of the days 1-4

DAY 5: Friday. A study trip to Estonia (by ferry)

· We will make 2 professional site visits related to AI use in education

· (There is also free time to visit the old town of Tallinn (Unesco world heritage site since 1997)

· Departure 9:00 and back in Helsinki at 18:30

Course fee: As stated in the official documents of the Erasmus+ Programme, the course fee is 440 € (80 € per participant per day /400 € per person for a 5-day course + 40 € organizational costs.

Certification details

Course certificate, Erasmus Learning Argreement and Certificate of attendance if needed.

Course fee: As stated in the official documents of the Erasmus+ Programme, the course fee is 440 € (80 € per participant per day /400 € per person for a 5-day course + 40 € organizational costs. The course fee covers costs directly linked to the implementation of mobility activities, including monitoring and support of participants during the mobility and evaluation of learning outcomes. Any other cost will be covered by the applicant organization by using the grant received from the respective National Agency for individual and organizational support. The course fee must be paid by bank transfer before the course starts. The event will be confirmed one month prior to the beginning.

Pricing, packages and other information

Price:

440

Euro

Additional information

Language:

English
Target audience ISCED:

Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)

Post-secondary non-tertiary education (ISCED 4)

Other
Target audience type:

Teacher

Pedagogical Adviser

Teacher Educator
Learning time:

25 hours or more