"Technological revolutions have been sources of both hope and concern, and our conversations this week continue to cover this spectrum," UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education Stefania Giannini said, addressing the 1000 participants at the inaugural edition of UNESCO's Digital Learning Week. The event, held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris under the banner of "Steering Technology for Education," was the first opportunity to bring together the digital learning community since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted school and university life, and since generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) first came to the attention of much of the general public.
Fittingly, the themes of the event, a rebooted version of Mobile Learning Week, which ran for ten years, were public digital platforms and artificial intelligence.More than 50 countries, including 17 Ministers, participated in discussions on a wide range of topics, including: the safe use of information and communication technologies; GenAI and its implications for literacy and learning foreign languages; ensuring algorithms protect fair knowledge distribution and multilingual resources; algorithm literacy; open educational resources and green skills; digital technologies for socio-emotional learning.
