Webinar: Responsible AI Use: Applying the CARE-AI Framework to Real-World Scenarios - and - Evaluating with AI

Some items picked up from the Canadian Contact North's newsletter :
- Free webinar on 10 April 2025 at 13.00-14.00 Toronto time (which is e.g. 18.00-19.00 BST): Responsible AI Use: Applying the CARE-AI Framework to Real-World Scenarios. "Using real world examples, you’ll learn to apply the principles of CARE-AI (Creating Accountable and Responsive Ethics for Artificial Intelligence) to scenarios involving AI use in educational contexts." Information and registration link at https://teachonline.ca/webinar/responsible-ai-use-applying-care-ai-framework-real-world-scenarios
- Hardmann, P. (2025, March 10). AI-Powered Evaluation. https://drphilippahardman.substack.com/p/ai-powered-evaluation Hardmann uses the ADDIE model of learning design (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation), focusing on the E for evaluation, and suggests ways AI could be used (e.g. to identify an evaluation tool, to conduct post-education interviews with learners, to develop a persona to give evaluation prior to doing the teaching). There are a number of interesting ideas, though I also would want to be cautious (e.g. I would find it difficult to construct one persona that captured characteristics of my students (also, if they found out might the students find that a bit spooky?) and also I would advise against feeding qualitative data from student evaluations and interviews into a gen AI unless you were positive you knew what would happen to that data. I agree with Hardmann's final message "AI needs you (and you need instructional design expertise)—in order to get the most from AI, you need to understand what to ask it to do, and how to assess the quality of its output."
Photo by Sheila Webber: beautifully designed branches and leaves, March 2025