Webinars for teachers and school boards on the impact of AI
See Dr Duignan’s media comment on chatbots and AI. Impacts on politics, education, jobs, government and society.
Webinars for Teachers and Boards
Two-session webinar on Navigating the Botworld™ What teachers and board members need to know to deal with AI and chatbots' psychological and social impact. This webinar consists of a one-hour Zoom session run on a weekday at 3:40 pm, followed two weeks later by another one-hour session which will follow up on areas participants want additional discussion on. It will cover 7 areas that teachers and schools need to be thinking about and working on now regarding chatbots and AI. A school will pay to register and send as many of their teachers and board members to the webinar as they like. The webinar will include:
Working out what the AI-saturated world will soon look like.
The implications for what students are taught.
Dealing with immediate assessment issues.
Rules for safe and productive use of current chatbots.
The psychological impact of AI, including the coming uncertainty for students, teachers and parents (e.g. career advice, psychological reactions to AI).
Resources teachers can use for working more efficiently with chatbots and AI.
Which, at least interim, policies schools should be developing now.
Contact us for more information about the dates of our webinars.
Feedback on one of our AI workshops from Queen Margaret College principal Jayne-Ann Young
Feedback from Learning to Love the Bot™ Workshops by Dr Paul Duignan
'Excellent.'
’I like that the presentation leads to a lot of thinking about impacts of AI and how we can handle/embrace it.'
'Very interesting presentation. This was a great introduction to raise awareness about ChatGPT and how fast it is growing, and its implications (thinking about policies, psychological effects).’
’So interesting. Super fast and full of interesting insights.'
'In such a short time, there was so much - thank you".
’A great intro to chatbots - super interesting - there's a lot to process!'
’Great, learnt a lot, going to investigate now, but I am a bit freaked out.'
So much information delivered in easily digestible, relevant chunks.'
Dr Paul Duignan’s experience in Technology impact
During his career, Paul has been a researcher on the impact of new technology, involved in discussions regarding the effects of new technologies such as the introduction of electronic barcoding into NZ, involved in national IT workforce planning discussions, involved in presentations, training and promotion of the use of the internet and web to groups in the health and community sector and groups such as the NZ Institute of Directors. Did strategy work on how the NZ government should move to more digital interaction with citizens and undertook work for the Royal Society of NZ on public consultation regarding the management of technological risk. He was involved in setting up a system of Access Grids in NZ universities (early multimedia internet-connected hubs for research on the NZ KAREN academic network) and ran a startup developing award-winning strategy visualisation software. Wider experience includes: facilitating strategy work across all sectors. He was the director of the Labour Research Unit at the NZ Parliament. He has also been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Urban Institute in Washington D.C. In addition, Paul has undertaken consulting work internationally, for instance with international organisations such as the IMF.