Wayne Holmes, PhD (Oxon) is a learning sciences and innovation researcher who teaches at University College London, and is a consultant researcher on AI and education for UNESCO and for the International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI). His research, books and papers, and invited talks focus on the ethical and social implications of AI and education.
Martin E.P. Seligman is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology and Director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where he focuses on positive psychology, learned helplessness, prospection, optimism, and positive education. n In 2021, he was named the most influential psychologist in the world by Academic Influence. His mission is the attempt to transform social science to work on the best things in life – strengths, positive emotion, good relationships, meaning, and human flourishing.
Anthropologist dr. Dan Podjed is Research Fellow at Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Researcher at Innovation and Development Institute of the University of Ljubljana, and an Assistant Professor for Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Ljubljana.
Mart Laanpere is professor in mathematics and computing education in the School of Digital Technologies, Tallinn University, Estonia. His main focus in research is conceptual design and analysis of affordances of technology-enhanced learning systems and tools, digital competence modelling and assessment, didactics of informatics.
Kristijan Musek Lešnik is Chair of the Positive Psychology Centre at the University of Primorska. He is President of the National Board of Experts on Education His main areas of interest are positive psychology & Positive Education. Kristijan believes that implementing positive psychology principles/tools into educational practices can lead to improved well being and prosperity of societies and their members.
Juliane is the founder and director of Lie Detectors (https://lie-detectors.org/), an award-winning and journalist-led media literacy organisation in Europe. She advises politicians and lawmakers including as an EU expert on online disinformation and digital literacy. Over a 20-year award-winning journalist career she wrote for The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Reuters and others.
Dana Redford, PhD is founder and president of the Policy Experimentation and Evaluation Platform (PEEP), an NGO that supports evidence-based policymaking in education reform and economic development. He is also a senior fellow at the Institute of European Studies, UC-Berkeley. Dr. Redford in an international expert on innovation, entrepreneurship and climate change education.
Margaret is Professor, Director of Partnerships, Communication & External Engagement and of the Scottish Network for Able Pupils. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She has 40 years teaching experience in primary schools and higher education. Her work is primarily concerned with learning, teaching and pedagogy.
Wayne Holmes, PhD (Oxon) is a learning sciences and innovation researcher who teaches at University College London, and is a consultant researcher on AI and education for UNESCO and for the International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI). His research, books and papers, and invited talks focus on the ethical and social implications of AI and education.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
Opportunities but hyperbole and, so far, more promise than reality.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Opportunities for students to self-actualise but, if we’re not careful, compromised human relationships.
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
For AI to solve problems in education, we need a radical change of trajectory. Today’s AI tools typically do little more than automate poor pedagogic practices. Instead, we need AI that addresses real educational problems, that empowers teachers and students, and that leverages the power of AI to create innovative approaches to teaching and learning.
Martin E.P. Seligman is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology and Director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where he focuses on positive psychology, learned helplessness, prospection, optimism, and positive education. n In 2021, he was named the most influential psychologist in the world by Academic Influence. His mission is the attempt to transform social science to work on the best things in life – strengths, positive emotion, good relationships, meaning, and human flourishing.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
GPT3 is phenomenal. Much easier to cheat: it will write term papers undetectably. We do not know its limits yet.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Integrating how to have well-being with the skills to hold a job in the workplace.
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
Optimists can take advantage of any positive technological development best. Pessimists flourish at times of retraction.
Anthropologist dr. Dan Podjed is Research Fellow at Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Researcher at Innovation and Development Institute of the University of Ljubljana, and an Assistant Professor for Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Ljubljana. His research focuses on the relationship between people and technologies and the development of products and services tailored to people. In 2019, he published the book Seen, in which he explains why we are increasingly observed and exposed with the help of smartphones and other devices. In 2020, his book Indoor Anthropology was published, in which he presented how he came to know the society and himself during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
AI is: 1. the successor of human intelligence, 2. our most beautiful child, and 3. perhaps our doom.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
I hope that the school of the future will be an institution in which digitalization will not prevail, but will also remain an institution in which students will learn about the importance of face-to-face communication in the real world.
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
Futurologist Ray Kurzweil argues that the moment of the so-called technological singularity will happen around the year 2045, when humans will load up on some sort of matrix and create a “superman” who will live forever. Yuval Noah Harari thinks similarly, saying that artificial and human intelligence will one day merge to form the Homo Deus. I personally think that both Harari and Kurzweil are partly right, but I am concerned that only the elite will be upgraded, and most of humanity will stay in the dark and watch from afar how a new man, connected to artificial intelligence, is created.
Mart Laanpere is professor in mathematics and computing education in the School of Digital Technologies, Tallinn University, Estonia. His main focus in research is conceptual design and analysis of affordances of technology-enhanced learning systems and tools, digital competence modelling and assessment, didactics of informatics, also authoring tools, metadata and repositories for digital learning resources. He is head of the MA programme ‘Teacher of Informatics’, co-author of national digital competence test, co-author of several informatics textbooks for upper-secondary schools. Mart has been leading the national curriculum committee for informatics in basic and secondary schools in Estonia since year 2000, he was also member of the steering group for Estonian Lifelong Learning Strategy 2020 where he led the development of the action plan for Digital Turn in Schools. He has been contributing as an expert to various European initiatives related to modeling and assessment of digital competence (DigComp, DigCompEdu, DigCompOrg).
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
No doubt, the classic (both printed and static e-books) textbooks will disappear from schools. My ideal “digital textbook of the future” is an intelligent search engine that recommends to each learner suitable learning resources when these are needed and provides him/her also some digital authoring tools that a student can use for analysing, manipulating, remixing and extending this digital knowledge base. Such dynamic textbook will be personalised and finalised by each student together with his/her fellows and teachers by the end of a course.
Kristijan Musek Lešnik is Chair of the Positive Psychology Centre at the University of Primorska. He is President of the National Board of Experts on Education His main areas of interest are positive psychology & Positive Education. Kristijan believes that implementing positive psychology principles/tools into educational practices can lead to improved well being and prosperity of societies and their members.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
Computers performing tasks and solving problems characteristic for human intelligence.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
Schools need to transform from places where information is memorised to places where children develop critical thinking skills that will help tem distinguish between credible information and untruths, conspiracy theories and fake news. The idea of a teacher as person transmitting the knowledge to passive recipients, should be replaced by an image of an enthusiastic motivator, empowering pupils to become active participants of the learning process, seeking and constructing knowledge by themselves. As people are not only cognitive, but also social, emotional, etc. beings, winners of the future will be schools that focus on well-being of all participants (pupils, teachers, etc.) and aim to equip children better not only with knowledge and competences, but also with key life skills (such as resilience, altruism, optimism, courage, creativity, gratitude) for higher well-being in life.
Juliane is the founder and director of Lie Detectors (https://lie-detectors.org/), an award-winning and journalist-led media literacy organisation in Europe. She advises politicians and lawmakers including as an EU expert on online disinformation and digital literacy. Over a 20-year award-winning journalist career she wrote for The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Reuters and others.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
The attention economy currently undermines AI’s potential.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Critical source literacy will join reading, writing & counting as an educational right. Time’s short.
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
Children can be critical thinkers who sort facts, bias and fakes as they navigate alone on fast-evolving apps. What this takes is simple and engaging training, integrated into routine teaching. With such skills, children can mine the digital world’s trove of information to its best potential. Lie Detectors’ work shows this is possible and not hard to do.
Dana Redford, PhD is founder and president of the Policy Experimentation and Evaluation Platform (PEEP), an NGO that supports evidence-based policymaking in education reform and economic development. He is also a senior fellow at the Institute of European Studies, UC-Berkeley. Dr. Redford in an international expert on innovation, entrepreneurship and climate change education.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
The attention economy currently undermines AI’s potential.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Critical source literacy will join reading, writing & counting as an educational right. Time’s short.
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
Children can be critical thinkers who sort facts, bias and fakes as they navigate alone on fast-evolving apps. What this takes is simple and engaging training, integrated into routine teaching. With such skills, children can mine the digital world’s trove of information to its best potential. Lie Detectors’ work shows this is possible and not hard to do.
Margaret is Professor, Director of Partnerships, Communication & External Engagement and of the Scottish Network for Able Pupils. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She has 40 years teaching experience in primary schools and higher education. Her work is primarily concerned with learning, teaching and pedagogy.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
1. Loss of jobs
2. Speech recognition
3. Personalised medicine
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Global citizens who work together for the greater good of all.
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
It will be dependent on how it is used. It has the potential to connect learners and to allow them to learn and imagine together, but children need rounded experiences to be able to imagine in the first place.
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