University's STEM hub cooperates with three secondary schools

How is artificial intelligence changing everyday school life? What role do digital tools play in modern teaching? And how can schools respond appropriately to the changing lives of children and young people? These and other questions are the focus of a joint event between the MINT Hub at the University of Kassel and three secondary schools from the region: the Erich-Kästner-Schule and Theodor-Heuss-Schule from Baunatal and the Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Schule from Kassel.

As part of an educational day, 250 teachers from all three schools will meet for an intensive exchange on school development in the digital age. The event will take place at the Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Schule and at the AVZ university location. Key developments and impulses for future-oriented school development in the digital world will be presented and discussed in specialist presentations by experts at the AVZ. In addition to fundamental questions about school transformation in a culture of digitality, the focus will be on changing examination formats in
times of artificial intelligence.

Other presentations will address the question of how schools can respond to the changing lives of young people, such as the currently intensively discussed influence of social media. The presentations at the AVZ will round off the educational day of the three schools or pick up on their topics, during which practice-oriented workshops will take place at the Lichtenberg School in the morning, which will deal with the use of artificial intelligence and apps in subject lessons as well as educational challenges in dealing with the changing reality of young people's lives in times of fake news and social media. Researchers from the STEM hub will also contribute to the topic with a presentation on AI in mathematics lessons.

"The cooperation between the university and schools offers a valuable platform for dovetailing new impulses from research with school practice," emphasizes the spokesperson of the STEM Hub, Prof. Dr. Rita Borromeo Ferri. The aim is to initiate sustainable change processes and support schools in their digital development.