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4.5 PD HOURS

Event Details

25/02/2025

9.30am - 3.30pm - Log on between 9.15am and 9.30am Victorian Time

Live Streamed Webinar

All Teachers and support staff.

$289 + GST

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Booking Conditions

No applications for this program will be accepted after all vacancies have been filled. Unsuccessful applicants will have their monies refunded in full. Cancellation prior to two weeks before the program date (cut-off date) will incur a 15% service charge per applicant. This program will be payable in full for cancellations made on or after the cut-off date or for failure to attend the program. All cancellations must be in writing and emailed to us. In the event of insufficient applications this program will not proceed and registration monies be fully refunded. In the event of this program being cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances registration monies only will be refunded as Critical Agendas will not accept liability for the payment of any other associated costs. Critical Agendas reserves the right to vary the advertised programs prior to commencement. Please note Critical Agendas reserves the right to transfer participants from face to face to webinar format with price adjustments (if required), should minimum numbers not be met for face to face event

AI for efficient, engaging and creative teaching T1, 2025

In the last two years there has been a lot of hype around ChatGPT and similar, large language model (LLM) AI tools that can generate text from a typed or spoken prompt. That can be really useful, but there are so many other new curious and useful applications of AI technology, that teachers can use to take their teaching creativity to the next level.

This workshop is a chance to some time out to explore (and play with) some fun, interesting and emerging AI tools that will make teaching more effective and enjoyable—both for students and teachers.

Some highlights will include learning to use AI tools to:

– generate realistic ‘photographs’, cartoon characters, black-line drawings and other images to make PowerPoint slides, tests, and worksheets more interesting and engaging.

– create subject-specific songs (rap, pop, R&B, country, etc.) to set a mood and context while students are entering the classroom. Write your own lyrics or generate them using the AI. (They sound incredible, too).

– animate the eyes and mouth of a still image to make it more interesting.

– speed up the process of providing specific, written feedback on student essays.

– perform pixel-perfect edits on your photographs that until recently required expensive software and a steep learning curve (say, with PhotoShop).

– edit a podcast or video by cutting/copying/typing the transcript, and/or remove background noise from the recording.

– find answers to students’ difficult questions quickly, with references to the published source—saving hours of Googling.

– generate high-quality, differentiated quizzes, worksheets, graphic organisers and reading material.

– much, more!

This workshop is more than just be a showbag of random AI tools, however. Each tool will be examined through a pedagogical lens, considering the educational problem it can be used to solve.

Guaranteed to be an enjoyable day, this workshop will make your teaching experience more fun in the months to come.

 

Critical Agendas Speaker
Presented by Critical Agendas

Andrew Douch

Andrew Douch is an independent education consultant and a teacher with 22 years classroom experience. His use of educational technology, including those used to flip his classes , has won him numerous awards, including an Australian Government Award for Quality Schooling, the Victorian Education Excellence Award for Curriculum Innovation, the Microsoft
Worldwide Innovative Teacher of the Year and an IMS Global Learning Impact Leadership Award.His mantra is “You don’t need to be very good with technology to do very good things with technology”. Rather teachers need a willingness to question their 20th Century paradigms and rethink their roles as educators in a world where information is available on-demand and communication is instantaneous.

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