Thursday 23.1.2025 – 14:00-17:00 CEST
Merkki Museum, Helsinki (+ Stream): https://merkkiin.fi/museo/
The conference has now concluded. Watch or re-watch the conference here.
Why? The conference aims to inspire educators, researchers, and policymakers to embrace the potential of AI while cultivating critical thinking and ethical awareness in the next generation of learners.
“We need to ensure “AI natives” to become “AI literate” already within the school education and start with the teachers.” Dr. Kari Kivinen quote.
A new DIL AI guide (see draft of English index here) for teachers will be launched by Dr Kari Kivinen as follow-up to very popular 2022 Digital Information Literacy guide published during the NORDIS network’s first mandate. What do we need to teach to ensure a curious active relationship to the new technology tool and to help the “AI-native” generations to navigate authenticity in learning?
DIL Forum also discusses the role of very large online platforms (VLOP) in media literacy efforts in NORDIS countries based on the pilot NORDIS led monitoring exercise to keep VLOP’s like TikTok accountable on their latest 2024 transparency reports. VLOP companies – under special new scrutiny of the EU commission – are close AI stakeholders as AI developers train their models with our data – user-generated content. We will ask what is the role of VLOP in Nordic media and information literacy now? And what should it be?
We will also share the Nordic best practices on media and information literacy development in the field of AI to inspire and future proof Nordic media welfare models in the new EU legislative context.
Registration here for onsite or online participation.
Program:
14.00 – Welcome: Mikko Salo, Co-Founder to Faktabaari & NORDIS (moderator)
Launch and Presentation of “AI guide for teachers” DIL guide by Dr Kari Kivinen (30 min)
Commentary by Kristian Smedlund, Finnish National Agency for Education
followed with Q&A
15.20 – Coffee brake
15.40 – The role of technology companies in Nordic media and information literacy – state of play & perspectives, Minna Aslama-Horowitz, NORDIS based on EDMO monitoring pilot
16.00 – Media literacy in Norwegian education: Insights and experiences from Tenk/Faktisk.no, Marte Foldvik-Høgås, Tenk/Faktisk.no, NORDIS
16:15 – Stop, Think, Check – the Australian way, Bryce Corbett, Squiz Kids & Newshounds – followed with Q&A to speakers
16.45 – Next steps: Towards the NORDIS source criticism day in time of AI (save the date 13.3.), Mikko Salo and Elina Kiiski-Kataja, FAKTA Foundation
17:00-19:00 Forum will be followed by onsite Democracy drinks with SHIELD researchers sponsored by Faktabaari partner DECA
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Presentation of the speakers and NORDIS
Keynote speaker: Kari Kivinen
PhD Kari Kivinen is a both a member of the European Commission DG EAC Digital Education Content (DEC) Expert Group and the AI Literacy Framework Expert Group. He has been recently involved also in the development of the Finnish AI Recommendations for School Providers, Teachers and Students, He is a contributor to the Finnish Faktabaari EDU project (NGO) within NORDIS, and has edited, among others, the Digital Information Literacy Guide (2022), the Guide to Artificial Intelligence (2024, only in Finnish at the moment). He is currently editing the AI Guide for Teachers, which will be published in January 2025.
Other already confirmed speakers:
- Kristian and Finnish National Agency for Education on AI: https://www.oph.fi/sv/nyheter/2024/stodmaterialet-lagstiftning-och-rekommendationer-artificiell-intelligens-inom
- Minna Aslama Horowitz on LinkedIn
- Marte Foldvik-Høgås on linkedIn
- Bryce Corbett on LinkedIn. Bryce is the creator of Newshounds, a free online resource teaching primary school kids how to recognise misinformation when they come across it online. Newshounds is currently being used in over 3,500 schools across Australia and New Zealand – and hopes to expand the program into other countries. To find out more about Newshounds, visit: www.squizkids.com.au
- Elina Kiiski-Kataja on LinkedIn
- Mikko Salo on LinkedIn
NORDIS – Nordic Observatory for Digital Media and Information Disorder: https://www.nordishub.eu/ – and NORDISHub newsletter
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