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SUMMARY:The Future of Education: AI
DESCRIPTION:Artificial Intelligence is the latest in a long series of high-profile technology ‘disruptors’ of education. What futures for education does it promise\, and are these desirable? Who is driving the discussion about its potential? And what might it mean for the act and profession of teaching? Current debate on AI in education is intense\, and often torn between competing visions of education’s social purpose. This panel brings together researchers\, writers and thinkers working in the area of AI to discuss what a future of education permeated by AI might look like\, what it should look like\, and how it might support education for public good. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Warner\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Warner is a writer\, editor\, speaker\, researcher\, and author of eight books\, including Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities (Johns Hopkins UP) and The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing (Penguin). John has been blogging about higher education at Inside Higher Ed for over a decade\, and writes weekly about books and reading culture at the Chicago Tribune and his associated newsletter\, The Biblioracle Recommends. His ninth book\, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI (Basic Books)\, will be published in the U.S. in February 2025. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAraba Sey\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAraba Sey is a researcher and educator whose work examines digital technologies\, socioeconomic development\, and social equity. As Deputy Director at Research ICT Africa\, she leads research evidence-building for policymaking on digital and data governance across Africa. Her research includes studies of the relationship between digital and social inclusion\, gender digital equality\, artificial intelligence for development\, misinformation and disinformation in Africa\, and inclusive research design and decision-making for community development. She is motivated by an interest in resolving disconnections between rhetoric\, action\, and realities around the potential of new technologies to foster human development in Africa and beyond. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Ben Williamson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Ben Williamson is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. He has conducted research on digital technologies\, data and artificial intelligence in education for more than ten years\, with books including Big Data in Education: The Digital Future of Learning\, Policy and Practice\, and the edited collection Digitalisation of Education in the Era of Algorithms\, Automation and Artificial Intelligence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJL Williams\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage Credit: Gintare Kulyte\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks by JL Williams include Condition of Fire (Shearsman\, 2011)\, Locust and Marlin (Shearsman\, 2014)\, House of the Tragic Poet (If A Leaf Falls Press\, 2016)\, After Economy (Shearsman\, 2017) and Origin (Shearsman\, 2022). Published widely in journals\, her poetry has been translated into numerous languages. She has read at international literature festivals and venues in the UK\, Sweden\, Germany\, Denmark\, Turkey\, Cyprus\, Canada\, Hungary\, Romania\, Montenegro and the US. \n\n\n\nShe wrote the libretto for the opera Snow which debuted in London in 2017\, was awarded a bursary to develop a new opera with composer Samantha Fernando at the Royal Opera House and was a librettist for the award-winning 2020 covid-response Episodes project by The Opera Story. She was commissioned to write the 2023 English Touring Opera children’s opera\, The Wish Gatherer. Williams is hopeful about the simple and mysterious power of poetry that allows us to know ourselves\, each other and the world more deeply. www.jlwilliamspoetry.co.uk \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair: Sian Bayne\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSian Bayne is Professor of Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh\, where she is Director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education\, and leads on Education Futures in her role as Assistant Principal. Her research is critical and interdisciplinary\, currently focused on higher education futures\, AI\, utopia and theories of ‘enhancement’. http://sianbayne.net
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LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Edinburgh Futures Conversations,Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:The Future of Education: Utopia
DESCRIPTION:Visions for fair\, inclusive and democratic education futures have long been expanded through the work of UNESCO and others. However global education policy is still powered by visions of economic growth and operates through the day-to-day machinery of measurement and performance management. This panel brings together a group of high-profile academics\, activists and creatives to debate what kind of alternative education futures are desirable. What do we need to unlearn in education\, as we work toward more just and sustainable futures? How might we re-think measurement and standardisation? What is the role of education for democracy in an increasingly polarized world? Can education become a living utopia\, and what waystations are available to us as we build it? The event will also include the launch of a newly commissioned work from the award-winning poet Joelle Taylor. \n\n\n\n\n\nKoumbou Boly Barry\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Koumbou Boly Barry is the adviser to the Director General of ICESCO Dr. Salim M. AlMalik. She is a United Nation Former Special Rapporteur on the right to education. Dr. Boly Barry holds a PhD in Economic History from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal. She is the former Minister of Education and Literacy of Burkina Faso and has consulted widely for various governments and international institutions on the right to education. She was also appointed Ambassador of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). Dr. Boly Barry has been an advocate on gender issues in education. She also has ample knowledge and experience in training and research\, as a visiting professor at University of Nottingham\, United Kingdom\, University of Louvain La Neuve\, Belgium\, and as a lecturer at Ouagadougou University\, Burkina Faso\, Vitoria University\, Brazil\, Georgetown University in United States and Fribourg University\, Switzerland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRadhika Gorur\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRadhika Gorur is Associate Professor in the School of Education at Deakin University. Her research spans education policy and reform; global aid and development in education; data infrastructures and data cultures; accountability and governance; large-scale comparisons; and the sociology of knowledge. She is interested in the social and political lives of data and in how policies get mobilised\, stabilised\, circulated and challenged. Radhika is a founding director of the Laboratory of International Assessment Studies\, convenor of the Deakin Science and Society Network\, and a founding member of the international STudieS network. She is an editor of the journal Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoelle Taylor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoelle Taylor is the author of 4 collections of poetry and one novel. Her most recent collection C+NTO & Othered Poems won the 2021 T.S Eliot Prize\, and the 2022 Polari Book Prize for LGBT authors. C+NTO is currently being adapted for theatre with a view to touring. She is a co- curator and host of Out-Spoken Live at the Southbank Centre\, and tours her work nationally and internationally in a diverse range of venues\, from Australia to Brazil. She is also a Poetry Fellow of University of East Anglia and the curator of the Koestler Awards 2023. She has judged several poetry and literary prizes including the Jerwood Fellowship\, the Forward Prize\, and the Ondaatje Prize. Her novel of interconnecting stories The Night Alphabet was published recently and was followed by a UK tour of a staged version of the novel\, directed by Neil Bartlett. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature\, and the 2022 Saboteur Spoken Word Artist of the Year. In 2024 she was honoured by DIVA magazine for her work and was added to the Guardian’s Pride Power List. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSotiria Grek (chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSotiria Grek is Professor of European and Global Education Governance at the School of Social and Political Science\, University of Edinburgh. Sotiria’s work focuses on the field of quantification in global public policy\, with a specialisation in the policy arenas of education and sustainable development. She has received funding from the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council\, as well as from the Swedish Research Council. In 2017 she was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant\, entitled “International Organisations and the Rise of a Global Metrological Field” (METRO\, 2017-2022). She is also the recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant\, which focuses on ‘Art and Policy in the Global Contemporary: Examining the Role of the Arts in the Production of Public Policy’ (POLART\, 2024-2029). She has co-authored (with Martin Lawn) Europeanising Education: Governing A New Policy Space (Symposium\, 2012) and co-edited (with Joakim Lindgren) Governing by Inspection (Routledge\, 2015)\, as well as the World Yearbook in Education: Accountability and Datafication in Education (with Christian Maroy and Antoni Verger; Routledge\, 2021). Her most recent books (with Justyna Bandola-Gill and Marlee Tichenor) are Governing the Sustainable Development Goals: Quantification in Global Public Policy (Springer\, 2022) and The New Production of Expert Knowledge: Education\, Quantification and Utopia (Palgrave\, 2024).
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-future-of-education-utopia/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Edinburgh Futures Conversations,Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:The Future of Education: Crisis
DESCRIPTION:The intersecting\, planetary-scale crises we face bring new urgency to the debate about the purpose of education. Climate catastrophe\, widening inequalities\, conflict\, pathogen spillovers\, new diseases\, failures of governance and technology acceleration all challenge us to ask again what education might be\, and what we need it to do. The first conversation in the series will focus on education through the crises of war\, emergency\, unrest and exclusion. It brings together a panel of high-profile leaders and campaigners for education in such contexts and will include the opportunity to hear from students who have lived through education in crisis in Pakistan and Gaza. It will also feature the launch of a new commissioned work from the Iranian poet Marjorie Lotfi\, based on the words of displaced and excluded women in Scotland. \n\n\n\n\n\nYasmine Sherif\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYasmine Sherif is the Executive Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW)\, the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises. A lawyer specialized in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law (LL.M)\, she has over 30 years of experience with the United Nations and international NGOs.Ms. Sherif has served in some of the most crisis-affected areas of the world\, including Afghanistan and the Middle East\, the Balkans\, Cambodia\, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan. She has also led teams in New York and Geneva – from where she continues to conduct regular missions to countries affected by armed conflicts\, forced displacement\, climate-induced disasters and other crises. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSir Julian Smith\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJulian was recently appointed Executive Chair of the International Finance Facility for Education. Developed by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown\, IFFED is a Geneva-based foundation providing a financing engine for global education. It is specifically designed to tackle the education crisis in lower-middle-income countries. \n\n\n\nJulian has been the Member of Parliament for Skipton and Ripon since 2010. He was a Ministerial aid in the Department for International development from 2010-2015. From 2017-2019 he was Government Chief Whip during the Brexit period and led efforts to resolve the parliamentary impasse in Government and across parties in parliament. \n\n\n\nJulian was appointed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in July 2019. On behalf of the UK Government\, he led the negotiations that culminated in the “New Decade\, New Approach” which restored devolved Government to Northern Ireland. He was awarded Spectator magazine’s Minister of the Year in 2020 following the deal. \n\n\n\nDuring his time as Secretary of State\, Julian delivered same sex marriage and abortion legislation\, bringing Northern Ireland’s social laws into line with the rest of the UK. In addition Julian led the introduction of the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) (Northern Ireland) Act 2019 which established the Historical Institutional Abuse Redress Board and which delivered a redress scheme and compensation to victims of child abuse who had waited for decades for resolution. \n\n\n\nMore recently Julian has advised Prime Minister Rishi Sunak including on the Windsor Framework UK/EU reset deal and the recent restoration of government in Northern Ireland. He acted as mediator between the Royal College of Nurses and the Government to resolve the recent nurses strike and has worked on a number of other industrial and commercial disputes in Government. \n\n\n\nJulian currently Chairs the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero Taskforce on  Alternative Dispute Resolution for Electricity Network Infrastructure. He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of Bath in the recent 2024 dissolution honours list for political and public service. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKainat Riaz\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKainat Riaz is an education advocate whose journey on this path began when her school-van was attacked by the Taliban. She decided to seek education as a revenge against that attack. Today\, she is an advocate for girls’ education and education in general\, and a co-founder and Director for girls’ education at ‘Beydaar Society’\, an NGO working in Pakistan to help promote peace & harmony by using education as a tool. Among other recognitions\, she has been decorated with a national award granted by the President of Pakistan\, Tamgha e Shuja’at (National Medal of Bravery)\, Human Rights Defender Award\, GG2 Award\, Ladies Fund Awards\, etc. She believes that through education this world can become a better and more peaceful place. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarjorie Lotfi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarjorie Lotfi was born in New Orleans\, moved to Tehran as a baby with her American mother and Persian father\, and fled Iran with one suitcase and an hour’s notice during the Iranian Revolution. After waiting with family for her father’s return in her mother’s tiny hometown in Ohio\, she lived in different parts of the US before moving to New York as a young lawyer in 1996 and then back and forth to the UK\, settling in the UK in 1999\, and in Scotland in 2005. Marjorie Lotfi’s poems have been published in journals and anthologies in the UK and US (including The Rialto\, Gutter\, Ambit\, Magma\, Rattle and Staying Human)\, included in Best Scottish Poems 2021 and performed on BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio 4. Her pamphlet Refuge\, poems about her childhood in revolutionary Iran\, was published by Tapsalteerie Press in 2018. She was one of the three winners of the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize in 2021\, and her first book-length collection\, The Wrong Person to Ask (Bloodaxe Books\, 2023) is a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Frigenti\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Frigenti is a senior executive with 30 years of experience in global development gained through her service in multilateral organizations\, government\, nonprofit\, and more recently the private sector. She started her career at the World Bank\, where she worked for 20 years\, holding several technical and managerial positions in Africa\, Latin America and Eastern Europe. She was then appointed Director General of the Italian Overseas Development Agency\, with theresponsibility of setting up the newly created agency under the government of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. \n\n\n\nPrior to joining GPE\, Laura led the Global Development Assistance Service Practice at KPMG\, which supports initiatives that create real value for investors and for society. In the aftermath of the pandemic\, an increasing amount of her work related to vaccine distribution and COVID-related issues\, as well as supporting governments in implementing various types of social protection measures to sustain the most vulnerable groups.  Her senior roles at the World Bank\, where she worked extensively in the human development sector\, ashead of a bilateral development agency\, and more recently as head of a large practice in a global consulting firm\, give her a deep familiarity with GPE\, the issues that GPE is trying to address\, and the global development space where its work is situated. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmani Ahmed\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmani Ahmed is a Ph.D candidate at Edinburgh University Business School and a Council for At Risk Academics Home (cara.ngo) Fellow. Amani trained as an electrical engineer  and worked as Head of the International Relations at the Islamic University of Gaza.  Since 2023 she is a member of the EU- Higher Education Reform Experts- Palestine chamber  (HEREs). She has a research interest in women’s digital entrepreneurship\, entrepreneurial ecosystems in conflict contexts\, as well as internationalisation of Higher Education under siege and in conflict context. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Brown (co-chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Brown is Chair of the global children’s charity Theirworld and Executive Chair of the Global Business Coalition for Education. Since she founded Theirworld in 2002\, its campaigns\, advocacy and ground-breaking programmes have been rooted in the belief that every child deserves the best start in life\, a safe place to learn and skills for the future.Working with government\, business\, philanthropy and civil society\, Sarah has succeeded in creating lasting change for the world’s most vulnerable children. As a passionate advocate that every child should have the opportunity of an education\, Sarah has shifted international political will on the provision of education in emergencies\, and on the need for innovative funding. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz Grant (co-chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz Grant is one of the University’s Assistant Principals with a remit for Global Health. She is Professor of Global Health and Development\, directs the Global Health Academy\,  convenes the Chaplaincy Committee and sits on the Advisory Board of the Academy of Sport and  on the Programme Board Education Beyond Borders. Liz co-directs the Global Compassion Initiative which explores the science and practice of compassion Her research spans global and planetary health and healthcare in contexts of poverty and conflict –   and compassion as the value base of the Sustainable Development Goals. She co-directs the MSc in Planetary Health in Edinburgh Futures Institute\, and the MSc Family Medicine in  the Usher Institute. 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-future-of-education-crisis/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Edinburgh Futures Conversations,Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Talk/Discussion
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