June 27 and 28 – Transversal competences and class participation in the AI era
On June 27 and 28, the course for teachers entitled: “Transversal competences and class participation in the AI era”, and will be taught by Juan José Escribano Otero. Learning to develop transversal skills in students is never easy, but it becomes very complicated when the contents of the studies are very dense, as is the case with engineering. However, it is essential to ensure that the engineering of the future is developed by professionals with these skills. On the other hand, class attendance, which seems to be decreasing in technical education in recent years, is not only enriching from the content point of view, but also because of the opportunity it offers to acquire transversal skills.
The appearance of a thousand and one tools based on Generative Artificial Intelligence (IAG) available to students (and teachers) makes it especially difficult to maintain the transversal objective due to the changing context. What was learned two or three years ago, the techniques that worked the previous course, may no longer be valid.
Although it may seem paradoxical, the sum of both characteristics, the difficulty of transversal skills and the emergence of AI tools become a great opportunity to redesign teaching in technical careers, such as engineering in general and computer engineering in particular.
With well-trained teachers in the appropriate techniques, the IAG ceases to be a problem to become a first-rate teaching tool. And the need to redefine training activities leaves room for the inclusion of elements of the most important transversal skills necessary in engineering in this century.
Course syllabus
DAY 1 (5H)
- Reflections and techniques to encourage class attendance.
- Teamwork techniques to practice with students.
- Agile presentation formats to increase the number of times all students speak in public
- Tools to organize ideas, concepts and discourses: mind maps and concept maps
- Flipped classroom without videos: it is possible.
DAY 2 (5H)
- AI tools available to the student to carry out their activity
- AI tools available to the teacher
- How can I use and make them use AI in favor of their learning and avoid plagiarism or "similar"?
