Welcome !

0th Transdisciplinary συμπόσιον on Reading Promotion in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

0th trandisciplinary ...

informatics*, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cybernetics

psychology, linguistics, pedagogy, didactics

philology, germanistics

philosophy

art

note: in informatics, we count from zero

SYMPOSION

slightly different than an ordinary "Tagung"

limited number of participants with different perspectives and skills

international, cross-generational and multi-lingual

gradual shift from frontal lecture to interactive sessions and roundtable discussions

Goal

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generate illustration depicting the dilemma "Should future artificial teachers be allowed to teach our children - and children of their children - how to read and write ?"

inform, network, brainstorm

exchange best practices

answer the question: "Should we use AI in Leseförderung ?"

create tradition of "AI & Reading" Symposia

have fun & enjoy the moment !

... Leseförderung ...

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Development of PISA scores for "reading skills" (OECD average)

learning & teaching how to read is a very complex process where cognitive, social, cultural, economical, technological and even ideological factors intertwine

reading competence falls down drastically

not only because of CoVid

new repositories (Internet), media (smartphones) and semiotic systems (emojis) emerge which undermine authority of traditional means of transferring knowledge (books, libraries, human teachers...)

... Era of Artificial Intelligence

The advent of AI already obliges us to rethink many educational practices (e.g. exams).

Two types of AI will be addressed during this symposium:

discriminative

generative

Discriminative AI

Discriminative artificial intelligence recognizes and classifies objects into categories.

In context of reading&writing acquisition, these forms of dAI are of particular relevance:

voice identification

handwriting recognition/identification

facial expressions....

speech signal classification

speech-to-text (STT), automatic speech recognition (ASR): both disciminative and generative

Generative

Generative artificial intelligence produces and creates.

In context of this symposium, following technologies will be addressed:

text-to-speech and voice cloning

text-to-image

"talking head" generation

large language models