Preserving the Participatory: Digital Empowerment in an Age of AI
Channel: eCampusOntario
Date: 2023-11-24

This keynote will explore the emerging and shifting landscape of digital education in the era of artificial intelligence. The keynote emphasizes the critical importance of preserving participatory learning experiences as a counterpoint to automated outputs, and underscores the role of educators as facilitators of meaningful engagement in digitally augmented learning environments. It highlights strategies to foster collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity, acknowledging how AI can be of service to educators while challenging the hype of tech determinism and AI enclosure.

The keynote calls upon educators, policymakers, and stakeholders to consider participatory pedagogy a key tool in ensuring that participatory learning remains at the core of educational transformation in the digital age. By prioritizing digital engagement that contributes to the construct of knowledge abundance and a knowledge commons, the talk outlines strategies for trying to preserve human agency and inquiry in the contemporary learning process.