Earlier this year, the University of Glasgow held its first International Symposium on AI in Education, organized by the School of Education and the Centre for Teaching Excellence. I was invited to give the keynote. The catch: I was in Arizona.

Mark Peart, Gabriella Rodolico, (the organizers of the conference) and I came up with a format we had never tried before. They started out by gathering questions from the participants ahead of time… school teachers, leaders, local authority and national agency representatives, about 50 people in all… and sent them to me, themed and organized. The questions were good, ranging from how TPACK holds up in the age of generative AI; to what learning even means when AI is another social agent in the classroom; to whether AI can actually reduce teacher burnout or will just raise the bar. As you can see there were not questions that had tidy answers, which is exactly what made them fun and worth spending time on.

I recorded my responses at ASU with the help of MLFC’s multimedia produccer, Jake Snider. Then the Glasgow media team took the footage and edited it documentary-style, overlaying phone graphics so the audience questions appeared to arrive in real time as I spoke. I was genuinely curious how this would come together and I do think it turned out well. The video is embedded below.

Thanks to Mark and Gabriella for the invitation and for being willing to play with the format of a keynote. Thanks also to Jake Snider and the media team at Glasgow for the production work.