AI in Action
The University of Queensland invites you to a webinar on the transformative impact of AI in education. Hosted by UQSchoolsNet, this session will explore how AI can personalize learning, enhance educational experiences, and provide valuable data insights for schools.
Presenter:
Dr Leah Henrickson: Lecturer in Digital Media and Cultures, UQ. Expert in understanding text generation systems, artificial intelligence, and digital media environments.
Curious about how artificial intelligence is transforming education?
Join AI in Action, a speaker series exploring the practical, the ethical, the challenging and the creative ways AI is shaping the future of teaching and learning.
Discover how AI empowers teachers, boosts student engagement, and sparks classroom creativity while also examining concerns such as diminished human creativity, over-reliance on technology, and other unforeseen challenges. Our webinars take a balanced look at both the benefits and the pain points of AI, highlighting the additional skills educators and students will need to integrate these tools responsibly.
Guest Speaker
Dr Leah Henrickson,
Leah Henrickson is a Lecturer in Digital Media and Cultures at the University of Queensland. She is the author of Reading Computer-Generated Texts (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and other peer-reviewed articles about how we understand text generation systems and output, artificial intelligence, and digital media environments. Dr Henrickson also studies digital storytelling for critical self-reflection, pedagogy, community building, and commercial benefit. She is the author of Digital Storytelling: An Introduction (Polity, 2025).
Her presentation covers how generative AI is reshaping the way we think about learning and teaching. In education, generative AI tools are largely being used to speed up tasks that we were already doing: summarising information or editing writing, for example. Instead of using these tools to do more of the same, how can we use them to think differently? How can we use gen AI to help our students embrace their creativity and critical thinking skills, rather than dampen them? This presentation begins with a short review of computational creativity and critical creativity research before suggesting ways we can support critical creativity with gen AI in the classroom – creativity that equips students with the capacity and confidence to tackle real-world wicked problems.
Event Details
Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025
Time: 12.45 for 1–2pm AEST
Cost: Free
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