Guest Speakers
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PROFESSOR SONIA LIVINGSTONE
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Bio: Sonia Livingstone DPhil (Oxon), OBE, FBA, FBPS, FAcSS, FRSA, is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Taking a comparative, critical and contextualised approach, her research examines how changing conditions of mediation reshape everyday practices and possibilities for action. She has published 20 books on media audiences, children and young people’s risks and opportunities, media literacy and rights in the digital environment, including “Parenting for a Digital Future: How hopes and fears about technology shape children’s lives” (OUP 2020). Since founding the EC-funded 33 country “EU Kids Online” research network, and Global Kids Online (with UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti), she has advised the Council of Europe, European Commission, European Parliament, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, OECD, ITU and UNICEF. She chaired LSE’s Truth, Trust and Technology Commission and is currently leading the Digital Futures for Children centre with the 5Rights Foundation.
Session: Access to information is a distinctive right in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and it surely underpins many other rights including education, participation and safety. Now that the original hopes for the internet – all the world’s information at our fingertips – have been betrayed, Sonia will discuss evidence-based ways to support young citizens.
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JEREMY HAYWARD
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Bio: Jeremy Hayward is an Associate Professor (teaching) at the Institute of Education, UCL specialising in the field of citizenship education. A former teacher, he has been involved in teacher education for the last 20 years, including leading the citizenship PGCE for over 10 years and currently leads the MA Citizenship Education, which includes the popular module Teaching Controversial Issues. He has written numerous textbooks, resources and guidance for schools in the areas of philosophy and citizenship - including recent guidance for schools on how to respond to conspiracy theories raised in the classroom.
Session: The internet has enabled vast amounts of information and ideas to be created, shared and discussed online. The velocity and scale of this process is unprecedented and one effect has been the widespread sharing of disinformation, conspiracy theories and dangerous ideas. This process raises profound questions and challenges for liberal democracies and correspondingly for the nature of education in this new era. This session draws on ideas from philosophy and political psychology to consider some broad changes that education might need, but also discusses practical approaches to help teachers respond to conspiracy, disinformation and dangerous ideas in the classroom.
Session: The internet has enabled vast amounts of information and ideas to be created, shared and discussed online. The velocity and scale of this process is unprecedented and one effect has been the widespread sharing of disinformation, conspiracy theories and dangerous ideas. This process raises profound questions and challenges for liberal democracies and correspondingly for the nature of education in this new era. This session draws on ideas from philosophy and political psychology to consider some broad changes that education might need, but also discusses practical approaches to help teachers respond to conspiracy, disinformation and dangerous ideas in the classroom.
Workshops
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Workshop #1
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Lloyd graduated from the University of the West of England School of Art and Design in 2005, with a Batchelor of Arts Degree in Drawing and Applied Arts. Since, he has exhibited mixed media drawings at various national exhibitions and trained as a secondary school teacher. Initially teaching Art & Design and Photography, Lloyd has since evolved into supporting the development of Curriculum for Wales as a lead practitioner and is currently Head of Skills and Careers at Bryntirion Comprehensive School, Bridgend, South Wales. Lloyd is proud to be an ambassador for Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff and has created a new Enterprise/Citizenship Project which many schools across Wales now take part in. Most notably, Lloyd has supported the development of the new Advanced Skills Baccalaureate Wales Qualification, where students take part in a variety of exciting activities and contexts based on the United Nations sustainable development agenda and Wales’s Well-being Goals as defined by the Well-being of Future Generations Act (Wales).
Session: Artificial intelligence is informing the way we work as educators. Learners and teachers are starting to evolve to this way of thinking/working and the development of critical thinking skills is more important than ever before to being able to use it effectively to enhance citizenship education, but also to be aware of the many dangers it can pose. This interactive workshop will explore the key issues that we face as we adapt to the artificial intelligence revolution and provide a selection of activities to develop pedagogy and classroom practice.
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Workshop #2
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David Lundie is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Glasgow School of Social and Environmental Sustainability. He is currently principal investigator on the ESRC-funded project “Teaching for Digital Citizenship: Data Ethics in the Classroom and Beyond” which seeks to work with teachers, students, policy-makers and the tech sector to recover a workable sense of critical literacy, moral judgment and autonomy for young people in digital spaces. His previous research has focused on citizenship, RE, school ethos and values. He is Deputy Editor of the British Journal of Religious Education.
Session: This workshop builds on co-design approaches from an ESRC-funded project: Teaching for Digital Citizenship: Data Ethics in the Classroom and Beyond” - it provides a critical data justice framework to evaluate the myriad challenges of young people’s digital lives, encourages participants to reflect on the ways Citizenship Education can contribute to cross curricular approaches, and points toward more positive framing of flourishing and agency in the digital world.
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Workshop #3
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Session title: Algorithms and their impact in the classroom
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Bio - Amit Puni: Amit is a Senior Lecturer at Kingston University, where he works across the faculty of HSSCE, lecturing from undergraduate all the way through to doctoral level. He leads the Working with Children & Young People: Social Pedagogy BA (Hons) course.
In his previous role, he successfully established and led the Citizenship with Social Science PGCE route. Beyond this, Amit is the national Country lead for England in the Five Nations Network, an Adviser on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion to the subject Association for Citizenship Teachers (ACT). and a School Governor in Kingston, a role that allows him to directly impact his local community. In this role, he has transformed and developed the Racial Justice Policy, lead staff CPD, and revamped procedures to ensure equity for students. In addition, he is a member of the European Race Equity forum.
Presently, Amit is in the final stages of a PhD, with a focus on understanding educational attainment patterns by deploying a Critical Race Theory lens. His academic interests encompass education and issues of social justice.
Bio - Jill Burdett: Jill is a teacher based in Scotland, with a keen interest in children’s rights. After 11 years working across Scotland in Primary Schools, she is now working for the Children’s Parliament as a senior Programme Manager, overseeing the Education and Capacity teams. Jill is currently studying at Strathclyde University working towards a doctorate relating to adults and their impact on children enacting their rights. She is also the national Country lead for Scotland in the Five Nations Network.
Frances Lingard and Sanda Rabbow are both experienced children rights practitioners in Scotland working at The Children’s Parliament. They are currently working in collaboration with The Alan Turing Institute and children from across Scotland focused on AI and children rights.
Session: The workshop provides a practical insight into the basics of what algorithms are and how they work in relation to AI. The workshop draws on examples from the Scottish Children’s Parliament’s use of AI as an example of how we could leverage technology to support The Rights of a Child. Through discussions on challenges and opportunities, participants will explore the applications of algorithms and explore their implications for citizenship educators.
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Workshop #4
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