Overview

In 2018, a panel of academics, practitioners and business personalities discussed the thinking skills students need for an artificial intelligence future.

The panel featured:

• Toby Walsh, Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at University of NSW, head of CSIRO’s Data61,
• Lyria Bennet Moses, a Professor and Director of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation at the University of NSW,
• Peter Ellerton, founding Director of the University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project,
• Christine Cawsey, the Principal of Rooty Hill High School in Western Sydney, recognised as one of the 40 Most Innovative Schools in Australia in 2016 and 2017 by The Educator,
• Sandy Plunkett, a leading commentator and analyst of the global technology sector.

Moderator: Leslie Loble, former Deputy Secretary External Affairs and Regulation, NSW Department of Education.

Other resources

• Australian Framework for Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Schools
• Education: Future Frontiers - Thinking for the future - preparing students to thrive in an AI world
• Jeannette M. Wing, A conversation about computational thinking
• James Curran, Karsten Schulz, and Amanda Hogan, Coding and computational thinking: what is the evidence?
• Anat Zohar, Thinking skills for all students including low achievers (Edspresso episode 10)
• Christine Cawsey, Learning through creative thinking (Edspresso episode 5)
• Daniel Willingham, How to teach critical thinking