January 2025 FOTL
Announcing our January 2025 Keynote Speaker
Professor and former Vice-Dean of Research at the Faculty of Education and International Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway Halla Bjørk Holmarsdottir. Overall her research experience is based within the field of Comparative and International Education and includes ethnographic fieldwork with children and young people, scientific coordination and collaboration in cross-national and interdisciplinary research teams, supervision of junior researchers, and co-editing and reviewing of scientific publications. More specifically, her research draws on interdisciplinary approaches. It includes research on the role of digital technology in the lives of children and young people, inequality and equity in education, social justice, gender, language issues in education, and the gap between educational policy and practice. This work has taken a central focus in looking at how education and, more specifically, teacher education can contribute to providing competencies for democratic participation and contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. She is currently the coordinator of a large-scale European Research project funded by Horizon 2020 (Grant Agreement no. 870548) entitled The Impact of Technological Transformations on the Digital Generation (DigiGen).
Description of Keynote: AI & Education: Opportunities and Challenges for Educators
With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), education faces two challenges: reaping the benefits of AI to improve education processes, both in the classroom and at the system level; and preparing students for new skillsets for increasingly automated economies and societies. A new demand for complex skills that are less easy to automate (e.g. higher cognitive skills like creativity and critical thinking) is also the consequence of AI and digitalization. My goal is to share some of my own experience with AI as a Norwegian teacher educator and digital researcher.
Announcing our January 2025 Keynote Speaker
Professor and former Vice-Dean of Research at the Faculty of Education and International Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway Halla Bjørk Holmarsdottir. Overall her research experience is based within the field of Comparative and International Education and includes ethnographic fieldwork with children and young people, scientific coordination and collaboration in cross-national and interdisciplinary research teams, supervision of junior researchers, and co-editing and reviewing of scientific publications. More specifically, her research draws on interdisciplinary approaches. It includes research on the role of digital technology in the lives of children and young people, inequality and equity in education, social justice, gender, language issues in education, and the gap between educational policy and practice. This work has taken a central focus in looking at how education and, more specifically, teacher education can contribute to providing competencies for democratic participation and contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. She is currently the coordinator of a large-scale European Research project funded by Horizon 2020 (Grant Agreement no. 870548) entitled The Impact of Technological Transformations on the Digital Generation (DigiGen).
Description of Keynote: AI & Education: Opportunities and Challenges for Educators
With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), education faces two challenges: reaping the benefits of AI to improve education processes, both in the classroom and at the system level; and preparing students for new skillsets for increasingly automated economies and societies. A new demand for complex skills that are less easy to automate (e.g. higher cognitive skills like creativity and critical thinking) is also the consequence of AI and digitalization. My goal is to share some of my own experience with AI as a Norwegian teacher educator and digital researcher.