DTCE Seminar: Understanding Learning in the World of AI
| Dates: | 1 March 2024 |
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| Times: | 10:00 - 12:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Environment, Education and Development |
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| Speaker: | Professor David Williamson Shaffer, |
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ChatGPT and other new advances in AI have the potential to change work, education, and even what it means to “think” in the first place. In this workshop, Prof Shaffer looks at what AI is (and isn’t), its impact on what and how we learn, and how AI can change what it means to do research. This will be followed by informal group discussion, networking, etc.
Sign-up not required.
In late-February, the Digital Technologies, Communication & Education (DTCE) and Education & Psychology (EP) research and scholarship groups in MIE will be co-hosting Professor David Williamson Shaffer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, as part of a Leverhulme International Professorship visit.
David’s research on merging statistical and qualitative methods to construct fair models of complex and collaborative human activity is internationally recognised. He has authored more than 250 publications with over 100 co-authors, including How Computer Games Help Children Learn and Quantitative Ethnography (which introduced Epistemic Network Analysis).
Speakers
Professor David Williamson Shaffer
Organisation: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Biography: David Williamson Shaffer is the Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics and the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Learning Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Data Philosopher at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. His M.S. and Ph.D. are from the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and before coming to the University of Wisconsin, he was a teacher, teacher-trainer, curriculum developer, and game designer. Professor Shaffer’s current work focuses on merging statistical and qualitative methods to construct fair models of complex and collaborative human activity. He has authored more than 250 publications with over 100 co-authors, including How Computer Games Help Children Learn and Quantitative Ethnography.
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Samuel Alexander Building
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