The Educator 6 July, 2023 by Bridget Forster
Forster, who is the Head of Kerferd Library and a VCE Literature Teacher at Mentone Girls Grammar, has been keen to explore approaches to AI Large Language Models in the English classroom, covering issues of identity, creativity, and ethics.
Among the questions being explored are how teachers can identify cultural bias and ethical issues in the use of AI in the English classroom, what are the copyright implications of AI, and how students can be taught to be ethical users in this new and evolving context.
On Tuesday, Forster became the fifth educator to receive the Copyright Agency’s 2023 Reading Australia Fellow for Teachers of English and Literacy and teacher librarians – an accolade that comes with a $15,000 grant to take her research project to the next level.
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