This Masterclass equips educators with youth-led insights and hands-on strategies to cultivate critical, ethical, and meaningful AI literacy in the classroom.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how students learn, connect, and make sense of the world. As AI becomes increasingly embedded in education and everyday life, it offers exciting potential – but also complex and evolving challenges. It can be difficult to keep pace or know how best to prepare students to engage with AI confidently and responsibly.
This Masterclass invites you to explore emerging trends and some of the concerns voiced by students and educators alike, using resources co-developed with young people to centre their interests. Through collaborative discussions and hands-on activities, we’ll examine how to support students (and ourselves) in navigating AI with curiosity, creativity, and ethical awareness. In this session we will:
- Explore how AI is reshaping opportunities and generating risks for young people
- Discover what young people think about AI and how to work with AI literacy resources
- Develop practical strategies to foster critical skills, curiosity, and informed engagement with AI
Whether you’re new to the topic of AI or already highly knowledgeable, this session offers a space to share insights and tips to confidently navigate this rapidly evolving educational and technological landscape. The workshop is supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society and Swinburne University of Technology.
Facilitators:
Stephanie Hankey is a strategist and social entrepreneur specialising in the social and environmental impact of technology. As co-founder of Tactical Tech, she advances digital literacy through global public education initiatives. She co-curated The Glass Room, an award-winning exhibition engaging over 500,000 people across 70+ countries including critical discussions on technology and AI. A Royal College of Art graduate, she is an Ashoka and Harvard Loeb Fellow a dual-professor at Potsdam FHP.
Prof Anthony McCosker is Director of Swinburne University’s Social Innovation Research Institute and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society. Alongside his internationally recognised research on digital inclusion and the adoption and impact of new technologies, he currently leads a three-year project on Critical Capabilities for Inclusive AI. Anthony’s recent co-authored books include Data for Social Good (2023) (Everyday Data Cultures (2022), Automating Vision (2020).
Dr Dominique Carlon is a Research Fellow in inclusive AI at Swinburne University and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Her research identifies community norms and innovation with emerging technologies, with a focus on interactions with AI assistants and bots. Drawing on academic and industry expertise across criminology, law, media communications and history, Dominique takes an interdisciplinary approach to developing evidence-based strategies that promote equitable and responsible AI.