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LMS Education Day: Mathematics, AI and DigiTech Futures

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The annual LMS Education Day, organised by the LMS Education Committee, is an opportunity for mathematics lecturers and colleagues across the higher education sector to meet and discuss aspects of education directly related to higher education. It is a free event.

Programme:

10:30 - 11:00

Registration and networking
11:00 - 11:10

Welcome and overview of the day (Professor Mary McAlinden, Chair of the LMS Education Committee, Nottingham Trent) 
11:15 - 12:15

Keynote (Professor Michael Grove, Birmingham): Generative AI: Its implications, and opportunities, for policy, pedagogy and practice within the mathematical sciences
12:15 - 12:30

Q&A
12:45 - 13:30

Lunch and Q&A continued
13:30 - 13:55

Discussion papers and influential reports:

14:00 - 14:30

10min changeover

14:40 - 15:10

Sharing/Showcasing Good Practice: themes in breakout-rooms. 30min per theme; choose 2 themes

  1. Dynamic Digital Tools in teaching and learning (GeoGebra and Desmos) - Tom Button (MEI)
  2. Digital tools in marking (Crowdmark) - Dr Beatrice Navarro Lameda (UCL) and (Gradescope) - Prof Paul Glaister (Reading University)
  3. Computers and theorems proving (LEAN) - Dr Athina Thoma (University of Southampton) and Dr Gihan Marasingha (Exeter University)

Optional for participants - bring your laptops
15:15 - 15:30

Feedback from showcasing good practice and closing remarks (Professor Mary McAlinden, Chair of the LMS Education Committee, Nottingham Trent)


Organisers:

Dr Cosette Crisan (UCL Institute of Education) and Prof Chris Saker (University of Essex), LMS Education Committee members.

 

When
May 22nd, 2024 from 10:30 AM to  3:30 PM
Location
De Morgan House
57-58 Russell Square
London, WC1B 4HS-WC1B 4HS
United Kingdom
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