The 2nd World Conference on Transformative Education has begun at the University of Cape Coast with a call on educators to embrace the technological changes the world is currently experiencing as they seek to make education transformative.
The World Conference on Transformative Education began in 2018 at Masinde Muliro University of Science & Technology in Kakamega, Kenya but could not be held in 2020 as planned because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The conference is designed to raise the power of the imagination of educators to rethink, uncover and recover knowledge that goes into the depth of things and emerges with transformative solutions to problems in every facet of society.
While addressing the participants of the three-day conference at the opening ceremony, Prof Mrs. Rosemond Boohene, Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast called on educators to embrace technological changes like AI to make education transformative.
To her, failure on their part to learn how to use these innovations to help learners transform can result in educators becoming redundant.
Prof. Boohene stressed that AI is moving the world and “there is a need for us to educate ourselves, because we don’t only have Chat GPT, we even have Perplex AI, we have crunch AI.”
She shared an instance of a professor she met in Germany who was combining Chat GPT five with Five G to illustrate how they can sit in Germany and control robots all over the world.
“This shows you where we are going as a world and where we are going as educators.”
Meanwhile, on his part, a representative of the World Conference on Transformative Education, Prof Michael Ndemanu stressed how important it has become for stakeholders of the society to conduct a needs assessment to align educational goals with societal needs.
He maintained that this is the way to go to ensure education has transformative outcomes where students go through the education system and apply that knowledge effectively in real-life situations.
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Source: Rosemond Asmah/ATLFMNEWS
