The Ethics Education Department, led by Mr Roger Tirazona and Ms Kirby Caruana, together with Dr Lucianne Zammit, Ethics coordinator at the Faculty of Education, University of Malta, recently participated in the UNESCO Digital Learning Week 2024. The Maltese team submitted a presentation for consideration, and out of 500 entries, 70 were selected, including Malta’s proposal. This took place at UNESCO’s Headquarters in Paris.
The Maltese presentation outlined the efforts and implementations with which the ethics of AI are being introduced in the curriculum, particularly in the subject of Ethics, which is now in its 10th year of implementation since its initial rollout in 2014.
The community at UNESCO showed great interest in Malta’s educational strategies and how these are being actuated within the curriculum in the context of the ethics of AI.
Educational world leaders, educators, researchers, and technologists were present for the Maltese presentation creating great interest in the new syllabi for Year 7 and Year 8 ethics that have just been launched and presented to UNESCO’s prestigious global stage, as well as the upcoming efforts for teacher training in the area of AI in ethics education.
This conference also marked UNESCO’s launch of two important documents; the AI competency framework for teachers and students, which also put at the forefront the ethics of AI.
