Dr. Vuorikari joined the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in 2013. She contributes to research and policy support in digitalisation of education in Europe. Her work focuses on update of the Digital Competence Framework for Citizens, other themes cover areas such as Teacher Professional Learning, AI in Education, Educational Makerspaces to mention but a few.
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.
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.
Gabriela Ramos is the Assistant Director-General for the Social and Human Sciences of UNESCO, where she oversees the contributions of the institution to build inclusive and peaceful societies. Her agenda includes the achievement of social inclusion and gender equality, advancing youth development; promotion of values through sports; anti-racism and anti-discriminatory agenda and ethics of artificial intelligence. Her appointment at UNESCO allows her to continue supporting an agenda of inclusive growth, and the respect of human rights and human dignity.
Blaž Zupan is a professor at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, where he teaches data science subjects and research machine learning and data visualization methods. He believes that artificial intelligence is one of the key modern technologies that everyone should be familiar with. For the purpose of democratizing artificial intelligence, his bioinformatics laboratory is developing the Orange program, in which machine learning approaches can be easily used and understood.
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.
Dr. 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.
Aleš Kustec is a teacher of philosophy, informatics, and geography at the Franc Miklošič Ljutomer Gymnasium. He is also the coordinator for the Interdisciplinary thematic section (ITS) become active – active citizenship program, mentor of the debate club and editor of the socially critical newspaper Reflektor.
Sonja Stepančič is a primary education teacher and a master of social pedagogy, employed for fifteen years as a teacher at the Primary School Trnovo in Ljubljana. As a mentor to teachers and students, she explores modern approaches to teaching promoting the development of innovation and creativity, as well as inclusive approaches and ways of working with students with special needs.
Ana Kozina is the head of the Centre for Evaluation Studies at the Educational Research Institute Ljubljana. She is a doctor of psychological sciences and an assistant professor of psychology.
Tina Vršnik Perše is an associate professor at the Department of Fundamental Pedagogical Subjects of Faculty of Education, University of Maribor. Her main research focus is the inclusive aspects of the educational process.
Marko Radovan is an associate professor at the Department of Educational Sciences at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. He teaches various subjects related to adult teaching and e-learning.
Dr. Nives Kreuh worked at the National Education Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for 20 years as a teacher trainer, project lead, and head of digital education. Currently, she is a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She is also responsible for Methodology and Research courses for modern foreign languages.
Ahmet Murat Kılıç, MBA works as a Programme Manager at the Education Policy Division of the Council of Europe. He manages three intergovernmental programmes namely Digital Citizenship Education, including the implementation of the Committee of Ministers Recommendation on developing and promoting digital citizenship education; Artificial Intelligence in Education; and Language Policy, including the promotion of plurilingual education and intercultural education.
Cristina Riesen is a seasoned entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in the fields of innovation, communication, emerging technologies and education. In recent years she was General Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Evernote, managed the launch of the Swiss EdTech Collider at EPFL, worked with the Strategic Development Team at ETH Zurich and founded the impact network Educreators Foundation.
Vesna Ferk Savec is a professor of chemistry education at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education. She is interested in innovative approaches to the use of ICT to support the learning process, especially in STEM education.
Dr. Vuorikari joined the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in 2013. She contributes to research and policy support in digitalisation of education in Europe. Her work focuses on update of the Digital Competence Framework for Citizens, other themes cover areas such as Teacher Professional Learning, AI in Education, Educational Makerspaces to mention but a few.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
Don’t let yourself be fooled by it! Embrace it but stay vigilant.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Happier learners actively steering their life goals. How to balance between teaching to a test and learning for life.
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
Never say never, so probably possible one day in the far-far future, but is it really desirable? It is up to us to decide what kind of future we want to build, so let’s plan carefully where technology is best placed!
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.
Gabriela Ramos is the Assistant Director-General for the Social and Human Sciences of UNESCO, where she oversees the contributions of the institution to build inclusive and peaceful societies. Her agenda includes the achievement of social inclusion and gender equality, advancing youth development; promotion of values through sports; anti-racism and anti-discriminatory agenda and ethics of artificial intelligence. Her appointment at UNESCO allows her to continue supporting an agenda of inclusive growth, and the respect of human rights and human dignity.
Prior to this position, Ms. Ramos served as the Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20/G7/APEC in the OECD, contributing to the global agenda as well as leading the OECD’s New Approaches to Economic Challenges, Inclusive Growth Initiative, Gender Strategy and the work on well-being and children.
In 2019, she launched the Business for Inclusive Growth (B4IG) platform, bringing together 40 major multinational companies committed to reducing inequalities. Previously, she was Director of the OECD Office in Mexico and Latin America and a member of the Mexican foreign service. In 2013, she was decorated with the Ordre du Merit by the President of France. Her work to promote gender equality earned her the 2017 and 2018 Forbes Excellence award as well as being included as part of Apolitical’s 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy in both 2018 and 2019. She is a Fulbright and Ford McArthur fellow, and a graduate of the Ibero-American University of Mexico City
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
Global ethical vision; a promise to improve the world; a risk
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
Avoiding discrimination and learning to respect others. The impact that AI has on youth and children not only inside the classroom but outside as it shapes their capacity to learn. Education needs to prepare them to understand these technologies with critical thinking.
Blaž Zupan is a professor at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, where he teaches data science subjects and research machine learning and data visualization methods. He believes that artificial intelligence is one of the key modern technologies that everyone should be familiar with. For the purpose of democratizing artificial intelligence, his bioinformatics laboratory is developing the Orange program, in which machine learning approaches can be easily used and understood.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
The tossing of numbers, a technology that will take us into space, and a key technology of this century that most of us know nothing about.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
The school of the future knows how to extract and highlight talent from each student.
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
We introduce teaching of computer science without a computer (http://vidra.si) into already existing subjects and contents and create examples that enable primary school teachers to introduce such contents. We do the same by introducing knowledge of artificial intelligence tools. We help teachers with summer schools. Instead of systemic change, we focus on schools and groups of teachers who are motivated and show that there is a breakthrough in this area.
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.
Dr. 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?
Task completion, decision making and future preparedness.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Support innovation by making connections between subject areas (opportunity) and embed this effectively and coherently (challenge).
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
Digital transformation can support innovation and entrepreneurship education through providing a forum, medium and testbed for pursuing opportunities and turning ideas into action. It is a means for students to reach out, connect and develop knowledge and real-life resources to support their personal, academic and professional development.
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?
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.
Aleš Kustec is a teacher of philosophy, informatics, and geography at the Franc Miklošič Ljutomer Gymnasium. He is also the coordinator for the Interdisciplinary thematic section (ITS) become active – active citizenship program, mentor of the debate club and editor of the socially critical newspaper Reflektor.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
AI does mechanical work instead of humans, who then have more time for creativity and thinking.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Sonja Stepančič is a primary education teacher and a master of social pedagogy, employed for fifteen years as a teacher at the Primary School Trnovo in Ljubljana. As a mentor to teachers and students, she explores modern approaches to teaching promoting the development of innovation and creativity, as well as inclusive approaches and ways of working with students with special needs. She has obtained the ECQA Innovation School Mentor certificate and she is educating teachers in the The Incredible Years – Teacher Classroom Management Program.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
It is a »machine learning« tool that generates development while opening dilemmas about the autonomy of the individual.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
The school of the future is a learning organization, a platform for the optimal development of all the participants – teachers, students, as well as parents and the wider community. The process of transforming a school into a learning organization, however, is an opportunity and a challenge in itself.
Ana Kozina is the head of the Centre for Evaluation Studies at the Educational Research Institute Ljubljana. She is a doctor of psychological sciences and an assistant professor of psychology.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
In the hands of a responsible individual, artificial intelligence a tool or an accessory for achieving meaningful goals.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Consideration and agreement on what are the core components of a school that support and build full human potential.
Tina Vršnik Perše is an associate professor at the Department of Fundamental Pedagogical Subjects of Faculty of Education, University of Maribor. Her main research focus is the inclusive aspects of the educational process.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Development of a socially and emotionally competent society.
Marko Radovan is an associate professor at the Department of Educational Sciences at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. He teaches various subjects related to adult teaching and e-learning.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
Automation, free time, universal basic income
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Greater clarity, accessibility and individualization, but on the other hand also the risk of increasing the differences between schools or students in terms of the ability to purchase quality ICT equipment.
Dr. Nives Kreuh worked at the National Education Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for 20 years as a teacher trainer, project lead, and head of digital education. Currently, she is a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She is also responsible for Methodology and Research courses for modern foreign languages.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
Siri, learning algorithms, immense accuracy and automation.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Personalised learning that will enable equal inclusion and participation of all learners in education and society as such.
Ahmet Murat Kılıç, MBA works as a Programme Manager at the Education Policy Division of the Council of Europe. He manages three intergovernmental programmes namely Digital Citizenship Education, including the implementation of the Committee of Ministers Recommendation on developing and promoting digital citizenship education; Artificial Intelligence in Education; and Language Policy, including the promotion of plurilingual education and intercultural education.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to you? Please, write down three things that come to your mind.
Perfectionism, overrated prophecies and myths, Person of Interest (TV Series)
Q2: What will the school of the future bring? Write down an opportunity and a challenge.
Q3: How can we prevent the digital divide from becoming yet another field of inequality?
Education systems should ensure that all citizens
– have equal access to digital technology, including in schools, libraries and public institutions;
– are equipped with basic functional and digital literacy skills;
– are provided with a secure technical infrastructure.
Cristina Riesen is a seasoned entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in the fields of innovation, communication, emerging technologies and education. In recent years she was General Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Evernote, managed the launch of the Swiss EdTech Collider at EPFL, worked with the Strategic Development Team at ETH Zurich and founded the impact network Educreators Foundation.
She is an edtech expert and a Steering Board Member of DigiEduHack – an EIT initiative under the European Commission’s Digital Education Action Plan. Cristina was named Digital Shaper by the Swiss economic magazine Bilanz in 2019 and 2020.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to you? Please, write down three things that come to your mind.
I look at AI as a growing landscape of new technologies and intelligent computing systems and tools, supporting humans in solving complex tasks.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Different future scenarios are possible, and this is our big challenge. However, we can proactively shape a preferred future, one in which schools are empowering and inclusive learning spaces supporting our young people to fulfill their potential and to become the caring, collaborative, engaged and creative citizens that our world needs.
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
Innovating education is too complex and too critical of a task to be solved by individuals or small groups alone. Hackathons create safe spaces for large scale, inclusive participatory design and experimentation. They are the perfect playground for groundbreaking ideas and fast moving innovations that put the learner, the learning journey and the pedagogical experience at the center.
Vesna Ferk Savec is a professor of chemistry education at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education. She is interested in innovative approaches to the use of ICT to support the learning process, especially in STEM education.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to you? Please, write down three things that come to your mind.
Smart assistants. Natural language processing tools. Manufacturing robots.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Global learners, independent from place and time. Students’ collaboration with their peers, teachers, local and global communities. Creative and personalised learning environments.
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