Workshopping with AI for an Academic World!

These EdTech events are for language teachers who want to know more about EdTech and look for different ways to implement new ideas in their teaching. 

AI’s arrival into the academic world is having a major impact on education and teaching practices. Without training, this will cause problems for educators until they adapt to using AI apps in their teaching workflow. Therefore, this session will help teachers learn, incorporate, and discuss AI apps and AI friendly teaching practices to help their students ethically navigate the AI educational world. First, Hakone will highlight a set of free AI research/reading apps that can be used by students in furtherance of their homework tasks. She will give a walk-through of the apps and an overview of the pros and cons of each, and give a review of her personal experiences with using them in the classroom and her work. Next Paterson will demonstrate some writing apps and how he uses them. He will also show how teachers can create a classroom workflow of experiential writing homework tasks that are highly AI plagiarism proof, i.e. students can’t ask AIs to specifically complete the task as AI apps will not know about what was done in the classroom nor the students’ classroom experiences. He will demonstrate how these tasks can then provide teachers with a benchmark of initial individual writing samples that can be checked against students’ future research writing work that could be completed by AI apps (instead of the students doing the tasks) to see if AI-driven plagiarism has taken place. Finally, there will be an open discussion / Q and A time at the end.

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Rab Paterson (BA, MA, CoETail, MS, MEd, FRAS, FRSA) is a Lecturer at Rikkyo University’s Center for Foreign Language Education and Research. He's a Best Of JALT, Apple Distinguished Educator, and a Google Innovator award winner and a Google Certified Trainer. Rab’s publications range from peer-reviewed academic journal papers, conference proceedings, academic book chapters, newsletter articles, and he has presented at many international academic conferences worldwide including Keynote, Plenary, Featured Speaker, and Invited Speaker sessions, two TEDx presentations, an Apple Showcase presentation. His current research focuses on AI and Plagiarism, Presentation Theory and Practice, and Digital Research writing.

Kaori Hakone (BA, MA, CoETaIL, MS) is an Associate Professor at Osaka Jogakuin University where she is the Director of the Japanese Education Center. She has taught Japanese in Japan and internationally and is an Apple Distinguished Educator award winner, a former ADE Asia Pacific Advisory Board member, a Google Innovator award winner, and a Google Certified Trainer. Her publications include a textbook, academic research papers, and newsletter articles. Regarding technology and education, she teaches first-year Digital Network Foundation and ICT in Teacher Education courses. Her current research focuses on EdTech, Community Issues, JSL, and Leadership.