The 5th annual conference on Anticipation Studies “Anticipation 2024” was held at the University of Lancaster from 11 to 14 September.
Stefania Bocconi e Valeria Piras from the Institute for Educational Technologies of the CNR operating within the project “P6 – BASIC AI & ROBOTICS SKILLS FOR SECONDARY SHOOL (STACY)”, one of the eight Training projects (SPOKE 5) of the RAISE ecosystem, attended the conference with a scientific poster.
The poster outlined the theoretical foundations underlying the online course “Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: new generations, new visions”, currently in the initial phase of its second edition. A course that trains secondary school teachers to put into practice methodologies specific to Anticipation Studies, to sediment in students critical thinking and agency towards digital innovation and in particular on the rapid development of AI and Robotics.
The Anticipation 2024 conference was a valuable opportunity to have a discussion with the most important international exponents of the discipline regarding the ongoing project. This experience demonstrated the urgency of laying the foundations of a critical culture regarding the development of AI and Robotics in educational contexts at an international level and made clear that the methodological practices of anticipation of Future Studies are a way to achieve this goal.
The poster allowed, through a QR Code, to download the toolkit used during the online course with the teachers.
“Anticipation 2024 was an incredible experience to be able to present the theoretical foundations of the STACY project. Having the opportunity to discuss with the holders of the UNESCO chairs in anticipatory systems and future studies from all over the world, as well as experts and practitioners in the sector, was enriching and very inspiring!” comments Valeria Piras, researcher at ITD-CNR.
