Teacher workshop (ARC – Greece), October 11, 2023
The workshop had the title “Education in the AI era” and was part of the events organized in the context of Athens Science Festival, an annual event for disseminating research results to the educational community and the general public.
Vassilis Katsouros and Pepi Stamouli introduced teachers to Generative AI and ChatGPT, with special emphasis on the demonstration of specific use cases of ChatGPT for the support of the teaching practice. LLM’s capabilities and limitations were highlighted and issues of ethical AI use were presented and discussed. Subsequently, they briefly presented the aims and objectives of the AI4EDU project and demonstrated the Study Buddy and Teacher Mate prototypes to teachers, showcasing several use cases for the support of teaching work. Teachers shared their opinions on the potential of generative AI to support teaching and learning and their thoughts for implementing them in education. Questionnaires were administered to be filled in after the workshop. The participants didn’t have laptops or tablets, so they followed the examples shown by the presenters on the presentation screen. 60 teachers participated
Student workshop (ARC – Greece), October 12, 2023
Anna Vakalopoulou and Pepi Stamouli introduced students to Generative AI and ChatGPT, with special emphasis on the demonstration of specific use cases of ChatGPT for learning in the context of school education. LLM’s capabilities and limitations were highlighted and issues of ethical AI use were presented and discussed. Subsequently, they demonstrated the Study Buddy prototype to students, showcasing several use cases that support students in their everyday school duties, including exploring a subject, asking for definitions and examples, asking for exercises, finding ideas for projects or arguments for essay writing etc. Students were engaged in attractive activities, such as asking Study Buddy to assess and grade their answers to specific questions, correcting Study Buddy’s responses and performing a debate with the Study Buddy.
Students shared their opinions on the potential of generative AI to support them in learning, as well as their insights on AI’s use in their everyday learning practice. The participants didn’t have laptops or tablets, so they followed the examples shown by the presenters on the presentation screen. 40 students participated
