The future of artificial intelligence in early learning

In this STEM Hour recording, we take a look into the future by exploring the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on early childhood education and how educators can harness AI to improve children’s learning outcomes. This STEM Hour features expert guests: Bruce Fuda (Grok Academy) & Professor Karen Murcia (Centre for Excellence for the Digital Child). Within the ECE context, some areas of interest we explore include:  

• What AI looks like now and into the future. 
• Opportunities and challenges that AI presents to educators, teachers, and children. 
• Strategies for integrating AI effectively into your service or classroom. 
• Philosophical and ethical considerations.

Bruce Fuda is the Chief Education Officer at Grok Academy, an Australian ed-tech charity with a mission to empower all learners with transformative computing skills so that they can meet the challenges and opportunities of the future. With over 16 years’ experience working in education and teacher training, Bruce was a member of the advisory group for the writing of the Australian Curriculum: Technologies, and later joined the writing team for Digital Technologies during the consultation and review process. He was the 2016 ACCE/ACS Australian ICT Educator of the Year.

Professor Karen Murcia is the Chief Investigator at the ‘Centre for Excellence for the Digital Child’ (Australian Research Council) and a senior member of the Curtin University teacher education team. In 2018, Professor Murcia led a study on how young children develop computational thinking while coding robots in play-based STEM curriculum. In 2021, Karen co-authored ‘Young Children’s Rights in the Digital World: Play, Design and Practice’, the first book to cover research on very young children’s rights in the digital age.

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