Teaching and Learning at Trent and Trent Durham GTA invite you to join us for a discussion with our featured speaker, Dr. Isabel Pedersen, Professor in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Ontario Tech University and Founding Director of the Digital Life Institute. Dr. Pedersen will discuss the social and ethical implications of recent AI developments such as ChatGPT for higher education. Following Dr. Pedersen’s talk, discussants, including Dr. Karleen Pendleton Jiménez, Acting Associate Dean, Trent Durham, Mitch Huguenin, Education Developer, Indigenous Pedagogy, and Dana Capell, Senior Education Developer, will offer remarks; time will also be reserved for open discussion. 

Format: Remote (via Zoom).
Registration is required.

About the Speaker

Dr. Isabel Pedersen is the founding Director of the Digital Life Institute, an international research network of multidisciplinary scholars studying the social implications of emergent digital technologies, where she also leads the AI and Social Implications cluster. She is Professor of Communication Studies at Ontario Tech University and studies the cultural, ethical, and political challenges posed by technological change through design, adoption and adaptation, concentrating on emergent digital devices. Her forthcoming, co-authored book is Augmentation Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in Technical and Professional Communication: Designing Ethical Futures (Ann Hill Duin and Isabel Pedersen, Routledge). She is co-author of Writing Futures: Collaborative, Algorithmic, Autonomous (Ann Hill Duin and Isabel Pedersen, 2021, Springer), and co-editor of Embodied Computing: Wearables, Implantables, Embeddables, Ingestibles (Isabel Pedersen and Andrew Iliadis 2020, MIT Press). 

Dr. Pedersen has held several distinguished positions and awards. She held the Canada Research Chair in Digital Life, Media, and Culture (September 2012-August 2022). She was inducted into The Royal Society of Canada, College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists (2014 – 2021). She was awarded the Scholarly Research and Creative Activity Award, Faculty of Communication and Design at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in 2010.