Justyn Olby | Head of Department, Senior Teaching Fellow
Singapore Management University

Justyn is the Head of the Centre for English Communication at the Singapore Management University (SMU). He teaches two writing courses to undergraduate students and has published a book on teaching writing using problem-based learning. Prior to joining SMU Justyn had a long teaching career in local Polytechnics and the National University of Singapore where he worked in senior academic roles for the past 15 years. Before starting his teaching career Justyn was a journalist and photographer with local newspapers and magazines. His teaching experience covers critical thinking, problem solving, communications, teaching and learning and curriculum design. In 2008, while with the School of Technology for the Arts at Republic Polytechnic, Justyn won the Outstanding Facilitator of the Year Award. In 2011 he attained his Master of Education from the University of Western Australia. He has also had extensive experience in adult education running workshops and consultancies for corporate clients, including Microsoft, teachers from a secondary school in Sydney, Australia, to secondary and tertiary educators in Singapore, and the SAF. He is passionate about creating and teaching curriculum that will engage and interest participants in all learning environments so that learning can be a rewarding and enriching experience.

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Pre-conference Workshops @ 14:00

[W8] 5 Nov (PM) - Adapting generative AI in curriculum design

In this workshop, learn from leaders at Singapore Management University (SMU) on how Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) can help you develop your curriculum. The session will cover how Gen AI will challenge long-standing practices of education and how you can best respond to and engage with it.

Participants will learn about how modules at SMU have used Gen AI tools in the classroom and how educators like yourselves, can make use of the same techniques.

The session will be focused on helping teachers get started with Gen AI in their classrooms with the aim of empowering teachers with the knowledge and skills they need to manage the use of Gen AI in their curriculum.

Participants will also get hands-on experience of using Gen AI to craft parts of their own curriculum. In particular, the curriculum development will focus on the creation of constructive and authentic problems for teachers to use to introduce concepts and drive student learning.

Experience how Gen AI can be used to create engaging and valuable experiences for students in the classroom, and how students themselves can use Gen AI to make the most of their own learning.

Workshop participants will:

How to effectively adapt Gen AI tools to craft curriculum
How Gen AI can be used to create authentic problems for their content
How to drive learning and engage students in the classroom through the use of Gen AI

Venky Shankararaman, Vice Provost (Education), Singapore Management University

Justyn Olby, Head of Department, Senior Teaching Fellow, Singapore Management University

last published: 25/Jul/24 08:55 GMT

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