A Life Less Simulated: Finding Meaning and Connection in an AI Age
This workshop invites users to re-consider the narratives that surround AI and digital technology. Long sold to us as technologies of liberation, democracy, intelligence and creativity, the way we think about these technologies is now dangerously removed from the truth.
What if digital technology is, like a river, undercutting the very foundations upon which learning takes place?
In this Imagine! session, you’ll encounter a new story, one that empowers a different kind of teacher, a different kind of learning and a different kind of school. You will contribute to the story, and leave with concrete ideas and practices to take back to your own school.
Facilitated By
Ross Parker
Deputy Head of School, ICHK Secondary
Ross Parker is Deputy Head of School at International College Hong Kong. He is passionate about making learning a positive, anxiety-free process centered around personal transformation. This requires re-imagining school as a place where adult-adult relationships create a culture of trust, respect and shared purpose.
Ross is the founder of Gibbon, an open source school platform, and the Free Learning pedagogy, which is the topic of an academic book published by Routledge. With Free Learning, Ross aims to give students the freedom and agency to find their own passions, the support and encouragement to develop understanding and skills, and the intellectual tools and curiosity to make up their own minds about life. Ross believes that education should focus on learning to learn.
As a public speaker, Ross has presented at schools, companies, conferences and workshops around the world.
