Artificial intelligence as a teacher’s workmate – starting to use AI in teaching
Get ready to learn about AI, make new connections and grow your professional network!
This course will help you improve your digital competencies to efficiently teach with/for AI and integrate it into your classes. Working in teams, doing personalized projects and learning through direct experience with different AI tools, this hands-on course combines academic high-level knowledge even with some cultural discoveries.
To whom?
The course is targeted especially to teachers from upper secondary schools to the university level of applied sciences. But everybody is welcome who knows the subject as her/his own. The course is Erasmus+ compatible, allowing the opportunity to receive mobility funding from the Erasmus+ program.
When?
Next courses in 2025.
Where?
In Helsinki and Tallinn.
Sign up for the course
Next courses in 2025.
Schedule
The daily program runs approximately from 9:00 to 15:30, with a lunch break from 12:00 to 13:00 (self-funded).
Please note that adjustments to the schedule may occur.
DAY 1: Orientation to AI in education
- Arrival & registration & some practicalities
- Orientation, expectations
- What is AI? How does it work? What should we know about AI as teachers?
- Workshop 1: ConversationalAI (prompting)
DAY 2: Getting touch
- Workshop 2: AI assisted Picture, Video, Audio generation
- Examples of AI in Education
- Workshop 3: Creating learning tasks & material
DAY 3 or 4: Everyday use of AI
- Workshop 4: Pedagogical recommendations to teachers, land specific examples
- Workshop 5: Using AI in teacher’s everyday work / tackling your routines
- Safety in the AI world, ethics, legislation, EU’s AI Act
DAY 4 or 3: Study trip to Estonia by ferry at participants’ own expense, with an estimated cost of 25-35 euros.
- Departure 10:30 – Back at 19:30. Later returns also possible
- Professional site visit
- Free time to visit the old town of Tallinn (Unesco world heritage site)
DAY 5: Group working for AI innovations
- Case: How the Erasmus+ project EducationalAI was created?
- Workshop 6: A group work: creating project ideas & understanding the future
- Wrap-up of the course, providing certificates, closing at 14:00.
Trainers
Ari Laitala has Master of Science degree in Technology from Aalto University where Ari has also taught for several year. Ari’s background is quite much on practical data analysis and Ari uses artificial neural networks also in his work. Like Cristina, Ari has been participating on European Digital Education Hub´s “Squad5: AI in Edu” work in 2023. Ari has a strong belief that AI will change education as much as the art of book printing did some 500 yes ago. But now the pace of change is just tenfold. Ari also thoughts that teachers as a profession have good luck to be in the forefront of AI use.
Dr. Cristina Obae is a highly skilled teacher trainer, with extensive experience in curriculum building and technology integration in education. Having finished a PhD at the University of Bordeaux, France in 2010, and started a second one in 2023 at University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland, educational Leadership MBA holder, founder of the startup NEdHo.fi which offers XR integration in education consultancy, she delivered face-to-face pieces of training for national and international institutions and held countless online workshops for the teachers in the school departments she coordinated. She is adept of “leading by example” and “hands-on learning”, so expect her trainings to be an exemplification of the different teaching methods and technologies she presents.
Master of Education Maarit Pihkala is a creative expert in the fields of education, training, and facilitation. Currently, she is working at the Environmental College Sykli, where she trains educators and other professionals in the Environmental Special Vocational Qualification Program. She also coaches students, design events, and innovate new educational products for Sykli. Previously, Maarit has worked as an expert on global education and human rights in different NGOs like Fingo and Amnesty International. Maarit believes that the most important aim of technology is to bring us together.
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Ari Laitala
Expert, Carbon-Neutral Circular Economy- +358 50 566 8998
- ari.laitala@sykli.fi