🌟 You’re invited to an evening of futuristic exploration! 🌟

Join us for the next Big Education Conversations SW event, where we dive deep into the intersection of education, technology, and our shared vision for the future.

Unravelling the Future: Education in the Age of AI

Embark on a transformative dialogue as we explore the evolving role of Artificial Intelligence and emerging technologies in shaping the purpose of education. As we step into the realm of AI, our questions will lead us to envision a learning landscape where we explore how technology might play in enhancing, not hindering, our learning.

If you're anything like me (hi I'm jae, I'm hosting the event!), I have some serious questions about the role of technology and the impact it has on our wellbeing. With the UK government exploring banning phones in schools, as well as trying to understand what role AI has to play I feel this is a crucial time to gather and ask these questions together and explore them with an expert…
 

🌐 Key Questions We'll Explore 🌐 

What is the evolving purpose of education in the age of AI?

How can we reimagine learning with the integration of technology?

In a world driven by AI, what small steps can we take for a more empowered and agency-driven education?

Agenda

🗣 Connect and Share

• Share your thoughts on the beauty and challenges of integrating technology into education.
• Explore personal stories of technological impact on learning and well-being.

💭 Dreaming Together

• Envision the wildest dreams for an education system intertwined with technology.
• Co-create individual and community commitments towards a tech-infused, learner-centric future.

👤 Featuring Special Guest talk from Stephen Reid

• AI and technology expert Stephen Reid will simplify the complexities of AI and help us explore its potential impact in the world and education.

Is This Event For You?
If you're a parent, teacher, young person, lecturer, activist or curious individual interested in navigating the world of AI in education, this event is tailored for you. Join like-minded educators, facilitators, young people and community members for an enlightening evening of exploration and dreaming, whilst also exploring the challenges and questions of the role of technology in our world today and it's impact on us and the world around us.

This event is hosted by a passionate educational changemaker, you can read more about the host, jae spencer-keyse's, on how they have been reimagining and revolutionising the future of education through power sharing here.
 

RSVP
Kindly reserve your spot by booking your free ticket or opting to donate £3.50. Your presence and insights are invaluable to this conversation.

Creating Space for Diverse Perspectives
This event is a space focused on cultivating care for expressing diverse views on the role of technology in education. We encourage dialogue that fosters understanding and empowers every voice, even those with potentially contentious viewpoints. This event will also be filmed to share, so in buying a ticket please let us know if you have any concerns about consent, our intention is to film this event to share with a wider audience and to help Big Change develop effective strategies to support educational change.
 

🌈 Let's Explore, Reimagine and Transform Education Together! 🚀
 

About the Hosts

jae spencer-keyse (she/they) is a skilled facilitator, community builder, learning designer and mentor. They are captivated by the question: What if learning and education supported individuals, communities and the world to thrive? This curiosity led to the development of radical reimagination, a collection of initiatives aimed at addressing the urgent need to re-envision and co-create learning experiences and life as a whole.

For the past 13 years, jae has held various positions in the fields of education and systemic change. Current projects include leading the development of Futurecraft, hosting Radical Reimagination experiences and Big Education Conversations and portrait photography for emerging artists and facilitators. 

Previously, jae has collaborated with organisations such as the United Nations, FutureLearn, Samsung Not A School, Huddlecraft, Big Change, and HundrED, and co-founded YouthXYouth and The Weaving Lab. They hold a degree in Politics and International Relations from Warwick University and a BPS-accredited master's degree in Psychology and Neuroscience from the University of St. Andrews. They’ve also completed three, six-month long Peer-to-Peer learning journeys exploring the role of imagination, learning, intuition, joy and regeneration in individual and collective transformation today.
 

Stephen Reid is a transdisciplinary technologist and coach devoted to the flourishing of Life on Earth who has trained in the fields of AI/ML, complexity science, physics, transformative coaching, meditation and plant medicine. Current projects include hosting the Futurecraft Residencies, practising as a qualified coach, and leading the development of the Dandelion platform for regenerative events and co-created gatherings as part of not-for-profit worker co-op Symbiota.

Previously, he founded The Psychedelic Society, taught the Introduction to AI, Introduction to web3, How to DAO, Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance, The Promise of Decentralisation & Life as Practice courses, served as the youngest ever board member of Greenpeace UK, and consulted for organisations including Supermodular, the New Economics Foundation, and 350.org. Stephen has an MPhys in Physics from the University of Oxford, where he specialised in quantum field theory, an MRes in Complexity Science from the University of Bristol, and a Professional Certificate in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence from UC Berkeley.