The Education Department will study which projects it can maintain within the framework of the extended budgets. Thus, Councilor Anna Simó has promised to soon communicate the educational priorities for the next academic year to the Central Board of Directors.
Simó made these statements in Tarragona, at the International Education and Technology Forum, which brings together 140 experts who debate the challenges of artificial intelligence in teaching.
Participants will have to solve 22 problems related to the impact of this technology in the classroom from the perspective of equity and digital inclusion, culture or new learning models, in addition to teacher training. The public forum, which has 450 registered, will last until Friday.
In this context, a dozen lines of work and 22 problems have been prepared where participants will have to propose solutions to the impact that artificial intelligence has on society as a whole. Among others, we will talk about how this technology can affect equity and digital inclusion, culture and minority languages, teacher training or learning and evaluation methods, as well as how the digital divide between students can be avoided. . The conclusions that the working groups will reach will be announced this Friday night, after four days of sharing.
The objective, according to the professor of Educational Technology at the URV Mercè Gisbert, is to promote reflection on the application of artificial intelligence with “a 2030 outlook.” Along these lines, counselor Simó has insisted on the need to address the effects of this technology. “What we would like is that in the field of artificial intelligence it would not happen to us as has happened with mobile phones, that we have been more behind us than anything else; in the case of artificial intelligence we must be able to move forward,” she remarked. .
The III International Forum on Education and Technology (FIET) focuses this year on artificial intelligence in the classroom, but also outside. Experts from around twenty countries debate around three thematic axes such as the educational process in digital contexts, the integration and transfer of technological research and innovation, and responsible digital citizenship.
