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6 May 2021 - 10:00 AM CST// 6:00 PM EEST

Talk with this year's Plenary Speaker Dr. Rose Luckin

Rosemary (Rose) Luckin is Professor of Learner Centred Design at UCL Knowledge Lab. Rose’s research involves the design and evaluation of educational technology using theories from the learning sciences and techniques from Artificial Intelligence. She has a particular interest in how AI techniques can be used to enable more effective, continuous, formative assessment processes and tools. Her 2018 book:Machine Learning and Human Intelligence: The Future of Education for the 21stCentury describes how we can best benefit from using AI to support teaching and learning, and how the prevalence of AI in our future means that we need to revise what and how we teach and learn now. Rose is also Director of EDUCATE: a London hub for Educational Technology Startups, researchers and educators to work together on the development of evidence-informed Educational Technology; Specialist Adviser to the UK House of Commons Education Select Committee for their inquiry into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Co-founder of the Institute for Ethical AI in Education; President-elect of the International Society for AI in Education; a member of the UK Office for Students Horizon Scanning panel, adviser to the AI and Robotics panel of the Topol review into the future of the NHSworkforce; a member of the European AI Alliance, holder of an International Franqui Chair at KU Leuven. Rose was named as one of the 20 most influential people in Education on the Seldon List 2017. Rose has published numerous academic articles in journals and has authored 2monographs and 2 edited collections. She is also lead author of Nesta’s influential ‘Decoding Learning’ report published in 2012 and Pearson’s Unleashing Intelligence, published in 2016.She is a member of the EPSRC peer review college and is also a regular reviewer for RCUK more generally. Rose has taught in the school, further education and university sectors. She is a Governor and Trustee at St Paul’s public day school in London, where she chairs the education committee, and a Governor of the Self-Managed Learning College in Brighton. She has previously served on the governing bodies of state primary and secondary schools. Prior to taking up her post at the Knowledge Lab in 2006, Rose was Pro-Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Learning at the University of Sussex.