A training initiative designed to boost your AI literacy and help your students use AI tools safely and ethically.
About
AI Literacy Training for Teachers
Secondary school teachers are invited to join a training initiative that will boost their AI literacy and help them empower their students to use AI critically. The training is developed by ADAPT, the digital content technology research centre funded by Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland. The programme is supported by Google.
AI Literacy in the Classroom will equip you with essential AI knowledge and practical insights to navigate AI in the classroom and guide your students to use AI-powered tools safely and ethically.
Regional Workshops supplemented by Online Learning
At the core of AI Literacy in the Classroom are half-day in-person workshops delivered from November 2024 to March 2025 at locations across Ireland.
The workshops will be supplemented by a 90-minutes self-led online course, available via this website from mid-November 2024.
Teachers can take the online course independent of the workshops, but they will miss out on the valuable collaborative learning opportunities presented by the workshops.
The AI Literacy in the Classroom website also links to relevant AI literacy resources for students and teachers from ADAPT, Google, Oide and other education leaders.
Learning Outcomes
This training initiative will enable teachers to:
Building on Oide’s AI for Schools Training
We recommend that teachers complete Oide’s AI for Schools 1-hour online course, which includes ADAPT’s expert input, before undertaking this training.
Our Experts
These workshops will be delivered by experts in AI Literacy and Ethics from ADAPT, DCU, and partners.
Dr Eileen Culloty
Dr Eileen Culloty is an Assistant Professor in DCU School of Communications and deputy director of the DCU Institute for Media, Democracy, and Society. Eileen coordinates the Ireland EDMO Hub of the European Digital Media Observatory, which aims to advance research on disinformation, support fact-checking and media literacy, and assess the implementation of the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation. She is vice-chair of Media Literacy Ireland, and a member of the working group set up to develop Ireland’s National Counter Disinformation Strategy.
Dr Michał Wieczorek
Dr Michał Wieczorek is an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Fellow at DCU. Michał’s current work focuses on prospective developments in the use of AI in primary and secondary education and their ethical impact. Michał received his PhD from DCU, where he studied the ethics of self-tracking technologies. His research interests include technology ethics (in particular big data and AI ethics), the use of AI in education, self-tracking technologies, pragmatism, philosophy of education, virtue ethics and critical theory.
Dr Eamon Costello
Dr Eamon Costello is an Associate Professor of Digital Learning at DCU and an accomplished teacher, researcher and public speaker. Eamon is deeply curious about how we learn in different environments. He is also concerned with how we actively shape our world so that we can have better and more humane places in which to think, work, live and learn. Eamon has taught and researched a wide range of topics in the places where people and technology mingle.