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Exploring AI and EdChat
Through the Orbis AI Online Learning dashboard, you can learn more about AI and the Department for Education’s custom-built AI assistant, EdChat. Access easy-to-follow microlearnings, practical tips, spotlights and presentations.
You’ll hear from department employees who are already using generative AI and EdChat to:
- create clearer, more engaging learning materials so learners better understand expectations
- create and modify images using text prompts
- apply simple frameworks for writing effective prompts.
About EdChat
EdChat is a generative AI chatbot, developed by the department in partnership with Microsoft. EdChat was co-designed ...[read more]
Leading Future Learning program facilitators, Professors Pasi Sahlberg and Glenn Savage, discuss the programs growth and impact with past participant, Mel Degner, principal at Cummins Area School.
This episode explores how professional learning empowers leaders to imagine, design and align with system strategy. It highlights the co-evolution of the program with the South Australian Strategy for Public Education and the impact the learning has had on helping leaders to enact the strategy and implement positive change in their school or preschool.
Orbis Leading Future Learning participants have been fortunate to hear from one of Singapore’s leading educational thinkers, Professor Pak Tee Ng, as he offers insights and ideas by blending philosophy, policy and personal encouragement. We’ve captured some of his key takeaways.
What is real intelligence?
“If artificial intelligence is artificial, then what is real intelligence?”
In an age where AI is reshaping education, Pak Tee urges us not to lose sight of what makes us human. Education, he reasons, should be a platform for real human intelligence, our ...[read more]
Spotlight: Empowering Learners with Professor Guy Claxton
In the latest spotlight, Professor Guy Claxton shares practical ways to help learners become more curious, confident and independent. It features videos from his visit to Orbis earlier this year, showing how small everyday tweaks can build positive dispositions and create classrooms where students thrive.
What you’ll learn in this 90-minute module:
- How to encourage the development of positive learning dispositions.
- Ways to shape how learners think about learning and themselves through words, tone, and classroom habits.
- Simple everyday tweaks to teaching practice ...[read more]
In the latest Let’s talk, Lou Pyman invites us to explore the power of compassion, starting with self-compassion.
A former teacher and now a leader with Compassion Revolution, Lou shares practical insights and tools to help support your wellbeing.
You’ll discover:
- What self-compassion is and how it can be used to reduce stress.
- How stress can affect the body and how to use self-awareness and soothing strategies.
- How self-compassion can boost motivation, help to prevent burnout, and build resilience.
Why this matters
Looking after your own wellbeing is essential. This ...[read more]
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