Exploring the Potential of AI for Teaching and Learning in East Africa - TESCEA Phase 2 - An event to explore how artificial intelligence might be used to address

We need to ensure that students use AI effectively and critically to improve learning, and we need to ensure that lecturers feel equipped to guide them. [...] • In contexts where lecturers and instructors are already overstretched and where access to professional advice, support and mentoring are limited, could AI be used as a professional development tool for lecturers and instructors? • Our aim for the event is to begin to explore AI cautiously but with a sense of possibility. [...] • Universities in the region struggled to use ICT to improve learning and teaching and so we need to ensure they are able to adapt more quickly to these new developments. [...] Louise Shaxon, INASP Trustee, argued that we should see AI as a tool that frees our thinking and our creativity, rather than rather than being scared of it and concluded that if we embrace the possibilities, we can help lecturers and professors really harness the power of AI, and to and to be much more responsive to their needs. [...] Secondly, how to assess the cognitive abilities of learners who were using ChatGPT – specifically how to measure and predict the growth and conceptualization of a learner over time and to differentiate between students using ChatGPT and those who are not while ensuring fair assessment and evaluation.