Exploring the Future of Learning with GenAI Symposium
As generative AI tools become embedded in everyday academic practice, they are reshaping how students learn, communicate, problem-solve and think. From drafting essays to summarising readings and generating code, generative AI systems increasingly take on cognitive tasks that were once central to the learning process.
This symposium, hosted by the Centre for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE), will explore the implications of cognitive offloading for higher education. When students outsource aspects of thinking to AI, what happens to learning, understanding, and intellectual development? What tasks or activities are ok to cognitively offload, and how might reliance on AI tools reshape critical thinking, creativity, memory, and disciplinary expertise?
Cost:
In-person - UoM staff and graduate researchers: free
In-person - Colleagues outside of the University of Melbourne: $75 (incl GST)