Transforming Vocational Education – AI in Theory and Practice
George Bekiaridis and Graham Attwell have made a keynote presentation to the Second Conference on the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture and Vocational Education and Training to be held on 24 and 25 October 2024 at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. The event was be dedicated to discussing the chapters of the new publication on the Council of Europe’s Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture (RFCDC) and VET.
In the presentation, Transforming Vocational Training - AI in theory and practice, they introduced ongoing research on using Activity Theory to analyse the impact of AI learning as a result of tool-mediated interactions, showcasing how conceptual frameworks, technologies, practical actions, individuals, and social institutions mutually shape each other in the learning process. They drew attention to the UNESCO Framework for competences in AI for students. which emphasises the importance of competences for citizenship, similar to the work of the Council of Europe's work on Democratic Culture. You can download a copy of the presentation here. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.