ASD Libraries: Librarian to Librarian 2023: KEYNOTES

KEYNOTE DR MYRA BACSAL

Myra Garces-Bacsal
Myra Garces-Bacsal is the Assistant Dean for Research and Graduate Studies for the College of Education, United Arab Emirates University. She also serves as an Associate Professor with the Special Education Department and currently serves as the Chair of the Research and Graduate Studies Committee, Chair of the College Strategic Committee, and Chair of the College Expo 2020 | 2022 Committee.

She is a recipient of the College Excellence in Scholarship Award in 2022, and was nominated for an Excellence in Teaching Commendation Award in 2019, recipient of an Excellence in Teaching Commendation Award in 2012 and a Service Commendation Award in 2013. Prior to moving to the Middle East, she served as the Programme Leader of the Masters and Bachelor’s Program in High Ability Studies and Gifted Education at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore where she taught for eleven years.

She was selected by the International Youth Library in Munich as an International Fellow in 2016 and 2017. She served as Chair of the Programme Committee for the Asian Festival of Children’s Content held annually in Singapore from 2011-2019.
Social & Emotional Learning Bookshelf
Dr. Bacsal is the founder of the "Gathering Books" Blog with it's world renowned SEL Bookshelf.
The Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Bookshelf is a collection of multicultural / international picturebook text-sets across the five SEL competencies.

PRESENTER ANTHONY COPELAND

Anthony Copeland is the technology integrator for the high school at the American School of Dubai and author of 'ChatGPT for Teaching and Learning'. A firm believer that AI tools can supercharge progressive education practices and transform student inquiry, Anthony has written on the subject of AI for Education in publications for the International Baccalaureate, International School Leader and Teach Middle East magazine, and has spoken about themes in technologically enhanced teaching and learning at conferences across Europe and Asia. A keen programmer and a veteran physics teacher, Anthony has been developing new ways for educators to interact with the GPT language models using both ChatGPT and the API to pull the power of ChatGPT into Google documents.

Join in him considering what impact emerging AI will have, and is already having, on learning.

ChatGPT for Teaching and Learning
A dive into the many ways that technologies like ChatGPT might be used in teaching and learning for secondary education. This book contains example prompts for using ChatGPT in both teaching and learning, and offers an evaluation of the success of their output. This book is intended as a guide for educators, school leaders, EdTech developers, parents and students on the utility of GPT powered AI for education.