Artificial intelligence for educators
On October 30 and 31, the All-Russian conference “Artificial Intelligence in Education: Best Practices” was held, organized by the gymnasium Koriphey.
In total, about 200 teachers from different regions of the country took part in the conference, some of them connected to the online broadcast. The conference on artificial intelligence was attended by heads of well-known schools from Moscow, Sochi, Ufa, Nizhny Novgorod and beyond.
The organizers gathered a pool of the most competent speakers - experts in the use of neural networks, ambassadors of digital education and winners of various professional competitions.
The conference was held at two venues. On the first day, the participants gathered in the Domna creative cluster, and on the 31st day they socialized in the building of the gymnasium Koriphey.
Five speeches were given in the Domna hall: first, the audience was well “warmed up” by foresight expert Anna Mikhailova, computer science teacher Tatiana Russkikh, and Natalia Vyun, deputy director of school No. 734 named after Tubelsky. After lunch, the baton was picked up by Diana Minets, a teacher from School No. 14 (Cherepovets), and Ekaterina Shinkorenko, a teacher of physics and astronomy at School No. 35 (Kemerovo).
The second day of the conference consisted of workshops (4 streams of 3 sessions each). But first there was a discussion on the topic “Artificial Intelligence at school - savior or terminator?”, with students and parents as speakers. As a result, everyone came to obvious conclusions: neural networks are increasingly penetrating into life, but they should not weaken our minds and replace the healthy joy of overcoming difficulties with their technical elimination.
And then the practical lessons began. First, teachers learned how to compose promts, generate images, teach foreign languages technologically and engagingly, and design lessons with the help of a personal digital assistant. The second series of workshops demonstrated how to create cool projects, animate literary characters, create one-click presentations, diversify a math course, be a digital classroom teacher and an expert in foresight methodology. Then, the conference participants had the opportunity to connect neural networks to the construction of a criterion evaluation system, to programming, to animate images of literary characters and to write motivational reports. All of these activities were led by speakers and advanced neural network users from the Koryphey community and invited experts.
At the end of the conference, the participants came to the conclusion that it is necessary to study and use new technologies in pedagogical activities.