2025 Teaching With AI Conference

Dr. Lesley Wilton is the keynote speaker at the 2025 Teaching With AI Conference.

Rapidly evolving as a general-purpose technology, AI is increasingly enmeshed in formal and informal learning environments. Meaningfully integrating AI into teaching and learning requires understandings of what AI is, what it does and what pedagogies (including AI pedagogies) best benefit learners. Troubling our thinking is: what are we teaching? and how?—and what is the role of AI? We are guided by societal and educational frameworks. Educators have a wide range of technical backgrounds–from little technical understanding to AI experts. In context, technology transience highlights the importance of AI Literacy. Evolving frameworks, such as UNESCOs, are important in navigating both our understandings of teaching with AI and of how learners use AI for learning. AI systems are complex, so the promise of agreed-upon descriptive structures (e.g. consistent model-card type information for each AI tool) may help educators better understand what an AI system actually does and identify its educational value. Responsible use of AI requires us to think critically and to consider the inherent risks of safety, privacy, data collection, bias, explainability and more. This keynote will guide staying the course toward learning as we navigate the uncharted waters of the WHAT and WHY of AI in education.

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