NORDIS Digital Information Literacy Forum: Generative AI, media literacy and ethics – Navigating authenticity in learning

20.12.2024 Nordis

Tapahtuma, EDU, EN, Piilotettu

Thursday 23.1.2025 – 14:00-17:00 CEST

Merkki Museum, Helsinki (+ Stream): https://merkkiin.fi/museo/

Why? The conference aims to inspire educators, researchers, and policymakers to embrace the potential of AI while cultivating critical thinking and ethical awareness in the next generation of learners.

“We need to ensure “AI natives” to become “AI literate” already within the school education and start with the teachers.” Dr. Kari Kivinen quote.

A new DIL AI guide for teachers will be launched by Dr Kari Kivinen as follow-up to very popular 2022 Digital Information Literacy guide published during the NORDIS network’s first mandate. What do we need to teach to ensure a curious active relationship to the new technology tool and to help the “AI-native” generations to navigate authenticity in learning?

DIL Forum also discusses the role of very large online platforms (VLOP) in media literacy efforts in NORDIS countries based on the pilot NORDIS led monitoring exercise to keep VLOP’s like TikTok accountable on their latest 2024 transparency reports. VLOP companies – under special new scrutiny of the EU commission – are close AI stakeholders as AI developers train their models with our data – user-generated content. We will ask what is the role of VLOP in Nordic media and information literacy now? And what should it be?

We will also share the Nordic best practices on media and information literacy development in the field of AI to inspire and future proof Nordic media welfare models in the new EU legistlative context.

Registration here for onsite or online participation.

Program:

14.00 – Welcome: Mikko Salo, Co-Founder to Faktabaari & NORDIS (moderator)

Launch and Presentation of “AI guide for teachers” DIL guide by Dr Kari Kivinen (30 min)

Commentary by Kristian Smedlund, Finnish National Agency for Education followed with Q&A

15.30 – Coffee break

15.45 – The role of technology companies in Nordic media and information literacy – state of play & perspectives, Minna Aslama-Horowitz, NORDIS based on EDMO monitoring pilot

16.15 – Source criticism and curiosity as the way forward – presentation of the Norwegian model, Marte Foldvik-Høgås, Tenk/Faktisk.no, NORDIS

Followed with panel with NORDIS representatives

16.45 – Next steps: Towards the NORDIS source criticism day in time of AI (save the date 13.3.)

17:00-? Forum will be followed by onsite Democracy drinks with SHIELD researchers sponsored by Faktabaari partner DECA

Presentation of the speakers and NORDIS

Keynote speaker: Kari Kivinen

PhD Kari Kivinen is a both a member of the European Commission DG EAC Digital Education Content (DEC) Expert Group and the AI Literacy Framework Expert Group. He has been recently involved also in the development of the Finnish AI Recommendations for School Providers, Teachers and Students, He is a contributor to the Finnish Faktabaari EDU project (NGO) within NORDIS, and has edited, among others, the Digital Information Literacy Guide (2022), the Guide to Artificial Intelligence (2024, only in Finnish at the moment). He is currently editing the AI Guide for Teachers, which will be published in January 2025.

Other already confirmed speakers: