Early Childhood Education lecturer Lee-Anne Turton, along with Karen Haines from Te Puna Ako, recently hosted a workshop for teaching staff on the use of AI in the classroom.
Lee-Anne led off the session with practices she has been developing for use of Generative AI in the classroom, including the importance of teaching AI literacy, and developing learners’ ability to critically analyse AI responses. She also discussed ways in which teachers can make use of AI applications to make their work easier – whether it’s writing the initial draft of a rubric or a series of case studies. Attendees then shared their thoughts in groups from different subject perspectives.
The workshop is part of several streams of work around AI arising from the Learning and Teaching Symposium on GenAI in Education Practice held at Unitec earlier this year. Te Puna Ako has devised workshops, guidance on procedures and assessment, resources on Moodle and a Gen AI Community of Practice that aims to help teachers to share and explore the impact and possibilities of AI in tertiary education.
“We’ve been running regular GenAI workshops to explore topics in more depth,” says Mark Smith, academic advisor at Te Puna Ako.
“Gen AI is a hot topic across the education sector as we figure out how it changes the professions our students are heading to, how it changes our work and what we need to do to adapt our teaching and assessment to this brave new world.”
Workshops are being organised with programme teams to discuss Generative AI and redesigning assessments, to be held in the first half of October.
Contact Joce Williams or Mark Smith at Te Puna Ako for details.