Rebecca Weber | AI Education Specialist Lead
Department of Education SA

Rebecca Weber is an accomplished leader and educator with nearly 20 years of experience in the Department for Education in South Australia. She has held various roles, from teacher to principal, across primary and secondary sites in metropolitan Adelaide. Currently, Rebecca serves as a Digital Education Coach in the Digital Guarantee Unit and is the Artificial Intelligence Education Integration Specialist Lead in the Emerging Technology team. As an intrapreneur, Rebecca has played a pivotal role in shaping the award-winning AI chatbot, EdChat, developed in partnership with Microsoft. Her contributions have been vital in creating AI solutions that save teachers time and enhance educational outcomes. Rebecca provides leadership in integrating technologies into educational practices, aligning them with high-quality learning design, pedagogy, and assessment.

Appearances:

Day 2 @ 11:30

Empowering educators with EdChat apps

We will demonstrate the ease of creating your own app and showcase the LEAP App developed in collaboration with educators to streamline the assessment of Standard Australian English (SAE) proficiency, savings educators significant time and effort.

EdChat is the award winning safe and secure Generative AI chat bot from the Department for Education SA, this presentation will provide an overview of the new EdChat App Library feature, empowering educators to create and share their own AI apps.

Takeaways:

Understand and see the benefits of using Gen AI to solve real world use cases from the classroom.

Simon Chapman, Director - Digital Architecture & Operations, Department of Education SA