Inspiring AI, STEM & Design Thinking for Education - WOLLONGONG

Join the experts from Inspired Education Australia trainers in partnership with St Mary Star of the Sea College, Wollongong, in this full-day, all-inclusive, curriculum aligned professional development on Inspiring Education series of workshops - Wollongong, suitable for New South Wales (NSW) School Teachers (K-12), HODs and Leadership. Take control of these industry technologies through the essential knowledge components followed by hands on skills and applications centred around task-based activity and classroom integration with suitable teaching strategies. No pre-requisite knowledge required.

THE DETAILS

• 15 JUN: AI in Education: $425 + GST / teacher (suitable for ALL Teachers)
• 16 JUN: STEM x Design Thinking X AI: $425 + GST / teacher (suitable for ALL Teachers)
• Early Bird + Attend both Days and Save: $650 + GST / teacher (save $200!) tickets available - Limited spots!
• Time: 9.00am – 3.00pm (recommended arrival at 8.30am)
• Where: St Mary Star of the Sea College, Wollongong (arrive at the school reception to sign in by 8.30am)

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

15 JUN: AI In Education (Consistently rated above 4.8/5 stars!) - Click Here to Watch more Videos

• Introduction to AI technology, global trends, current industry status and relatedness to Australian education.
• Designing creative prompt engineering techniques for the classroom context with steps for advanced prompts and safe AI implementation / installation.
• Hands-on practice with AI classroom / Australian school setting tools across a variety of AI tools that incorporate building subject tailored chat bots, text to image, text to video, text to presentation, sketch to image etc.
• Workshopping educational uses of AI tools integration for modern teaching.
• Ethical considerations in AI / Pros and Cons & exploring the future of AI and its implications for education.
• AI Capability development opportunities, school-wide

16 JUN: Design Thinking (Advanced - with AI) Not for the beginner teachers! We recommend attending Day 1 to gain the most skills!

• Learn how to guide key stakeholders in the process of design thinking in a co-creative, critical challenge.
• Integrate STEM principles and concepts overlaid with the unique use of design thinking and safe AI
• Increase the breadth of your design thinking knowledge by learning advanced approaches to human-centred design.
• United Nation’s SDG integration into critical problem solving – aligning with tertiary design education.
• Use & Integrate AI tools into design thinking activities in the classroom with Prompt Engineering Skills and visualisation skills.
• Foundational mapping and visualisation techniques.
• Integration of rapid ideation and prototyping, built on foundational design thinking approach.
• Set up practices for advanced design thinking skills development for teaching.
• Lo-fi prototyping ideas and how to advance from lo-fi prototyping to hi-fidelity prototyping in classrooms.

(Both days will incorporate: Q&A Session with trainers / Ongoing email support with supporting learning material and digital resources / Ready to use digital resources and content with all presentation content shared digitally.)

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IMPORTANT NOTE: All attending teachers must have their own AI Tools & account/s. Make sure standard tools such as ChatGPT/CoPilot/Gemini are accessible on your own BYO preferred device, ready to use. We highly recommend attending teachers to speak to the IT department for advice and usage parameters / log-ins on your own device with the own mouse for use. If you are a teacher from department schools, it is suitable to bring a personal device (i.e. laptop) to use various tools.

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