It was great to have technical and education specialists from across our member dioceses collaborate on common themes around Generative AI in education at this week's 2024 Synergy Session!
In a room rich with experience and diverse expertise, we explored the potential opportunities & impacts of Gen AI on systems, process & teaching and learning. Dan Ingvarson shared his recent collaborative work on creating an AI strategy for schools & Alan Ibbett provided a presentation on CEnet's innovative work to provide AI driven tools to support Catholic education. Thanks to both for sharing insights & guidance on best practice & innovations.
It was great to hear from Google's Marie Efstathiou on opportunities and diversity in STEM education & Grace Chung, Head of Google Research Australia on the potential of AI technologies to make progress on challenges from health to climate change. Thank you Marie & Grace for such insightful presentations.
Our sincere thanks to the team at Google Sydney for hosting this event - a fantastic environment for our diocesan teams to collaborate & strategise! Special thanks to Kimberley Hall for facilitating this session & Google's Bettina Fifer, Chris Betcher, Darren Macolino, Harris Kissas and Richard Johnson. It was very much appreciated.
There were so many highlights, including a field trip to Lumination Learning Labs to experience how virtual and augmented reality technology can be used for experiential learning - thanks to the team at Lumination for this opportunity!
A lot of planning goes into these events - a special shout out to Karen Gardiner, Jo Quinlan, Tracey Catling & Nyree Buchanan for your contribution.
We look forward to further collaboration at our next face-to-face conference in September
