26 September | 9:00 a.m. | ZOOM
How can we develop our students’ critical thinking skills while using AI?
Do our students stop thinking when they use AI? As teachers, we worry when we give our students tasks that should develop their thinking skills and they can use AI to bypass that. In this session, we will look more carefully at what we are really trying to do when we develop our students’ critical thinking skills. We will examine why this can be difficult in a world with easy access to GenAI and social media. And, finally, we will look at practical ways in which we can adapt to developing critical thinking skills in this changing environment with AI. And all of this will be in the context of teaching them to communicate in English.
BEN KNIGHT
Oxford University Press
Head of Pedagogy Research at Oxford University Press. He is responsible for ensuring a clear research-informed pedagogical approach underpinning Oxford ELT courses and learning materials. His current priority is developing a pedagogical-based approach to using emerging technology in order to help teachers and learners in their language learning. He studied Linguistics at the University of York and Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. He has been a teacher, trainer and lecturer, in schools, universities and the British Council, in various countries around the world, in Asia, Africa and Europe.
