AI workshops for schools
See Dr Duignan’s media comment on chatbots and AI. Impacts on politics, education, jobs, government and society.
Schools and Educational Institutions
Learning to Love the Bot™ What Chatbots Mean For Education - a one-hour presentation (or more extended workshop) covering the 7 specific areas that schools and educational institutions need to be working on now in regard to chatbots and AI. We run workshops for boards and school leadership and for teachers and for parents. These include: working out what the world is soon going to look like due to the rapid adoption of AI chatbots, understanding the implications for what students are taught, dealing with immediate assessment issues, thinking about the psychological impact on students and teachers, teaching teachers how to use chatbots for working more efficiently, and identifying which, at least interim, policies educational institutions should be developing now. Contact us now about setting up a presentation or workshop.
Feedback from Queen Margaret College principal Jayne-Ann Young
Feedback from Learning to Love the Bot™ Workshops by Dr Paul Duignan
'Excellent.'
’I like that the presentation leads to a lot of thinking about impacts of AI and how we can handle/embrace it.'
'Very interesting presentation. This was a great introduction to raise awareness about ChatGPT and how fast it is growing, and its implications (thinking about policies, psychological effects).’
’So interesting. Super fast and full of interesting insights.'
'In such a short time, there was so much - thank you".
’A great intro to chatbots - super interesting - there's a lot to process!'
’Great, learnt a lot, going to investigate now, but I am a bit freaked out.'
So much information delivered in easily digestible, relevant chunks.'
Dr Paul Duignan’s experience in Technology impact
During his career, Paul has been a researcher on the impact of new technology, involved in discussions regarding the effects of new technologies such as the introduction of electronic barcoding into NZ, involved in national IT workforce planning discussions, involved in presentations, training and promotion of the use of the internet and web to groups in the health and community sector and groups such as the NZ Institute of Directors. Did strategy work on how the NZ government should move to more digital interaction with citizens and undertook work for the Royal Society of NZ on public consultation regarding the management of technological risk. He was involved in setting up a system of Access Grids in NZ universities (early multimedia internet-connected hubs for research on the NZ KAREN academic network) and ran a startup developing award-winning strategy visualisation software. Wider experience includes: facilitating strategy work across all sectors. He was the director of the Labour Research Unit at the NZ Parliament. He has also been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Urban Institute in Washington D.C. In addition, Paul has undertaken consulting work internationally, for instance with international organisations such as the IMF.