Through the Erasmus+ KA120-SCH Project Ref:2024-1-MT01-KA121-SCH-000201561, I recently attended a course on AI and Critical Thinking in Budapest. The course highlighted how AI-generated multi-modal resources can enhance student engagement and offer diverse learning tools. For instance, educators can create AI-generated images using ideogram.ai to stimulate discussions and debates, illustrate concepts, depict historical and book characters, thereby fostering creativity and critical thinking. Additionally, Suno.ai emerged as a versatile tool for generating catchy songs that introduce new topics or vocabulary, as well as memorable revision songs that help students retain key concepts. Students can also create their own song prompts, further encouraging creativity.
This experience has left me reflecting on best practices in harnessing AI’s potential while at the same time guiding and equipping educators and students alike, with transversal skills needed to engage thoughtfully and responsibly with AI in a world where it will play an ever increasingly larger role. Overall, the course has motivated me to further support educators in effectively integrating AI into their teaching, promoting digital literacy and transversal skills in the process.
Following this professional development abroad, the SfCE shall be delivering a dissemination for secondary teachers in term 3.
Roberta Trapani Maggi – HoD Digital Literacy and Transversal Skills
2024-1-MT01-KA121-SCH-000201561
