Using AI responsibly in assessment

This workshop explores key principles for the responsible use of AI in assessment. These principles include agency, pedagogical friction, creativity and accountability. The workshop will take a balanced approach, exploring the potential risks with the use of AI in the classroom, including concerns around cognitive offloading. We will explore when and how AI tools—such as LLMs—might be thoughtfully integrated into classroom practice, including a brief look at Pulc.Ai as an example of supportive AI design. The session will be co-led by Dr Cillian Ó Fathaigh, an Assistant Professor in Philosophy, and Maud Sampson of Central Foundation Girls' School, London, who will share her own experience in incorporating AI in day-to-day teaching and marking.

Participants will:

• Better understand the different forms of AI (such as LLMs, ML) and their potential use in learning.
• Explore principles for deciding on whether and how to incorporate AI into your teaching practice.
• Better articulate the risks of AI in an educational setting, including deskilling & cognitive offloading.

Before the webinar, you might want to explore other EA resources on the topic of AI, including:

• Cassie Martin ‘You must translate. ‘Tis fit we understand’ (Hamlet 4.1.2) – Changing approaches to translating Shakespeare’ The Use of English 76.2 Spring 2025
• Thinking Forwards: Collaboration | Living with Machines 28 Feb 2025
• I’ll go chat with Paris: AI chatbots and Shakespeare 27 Feb 2025
• Let’s Think in English: Weaving the art of English and the science of intelligence 4 Feb 2025
• Technology in the English classroom: policy, practice, pedagogy 19 Nov 2024
• Action On… Artificial Intelligence – an English: Shared Futures Satellite Event 8 Nov 2024
• AI for English students 24 Sept 2024

After the webinar, you'll receive the recording of the webinar; a list of suggested further reading; and a series of reflection questions/writing prompts to support you in linking the content of the webinar back in to your practice.

Speakers

Dr Cillian Ó Fathaigh is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Jagiellonian University of Krakow and a Visiting Fellow at King’s College London. He previously held a Bill & Melinda Gates Scholarship at the University of Cambridge and has published widely in philosophy. He currently leads a major research network exploring the role of AI in the teaching of Humanities across 7 European universities. He is the founder of Pulc.Ai: a free AI assessment tool for teachers, trained for GCSE & A-levels.

Maud Sampson has over a decade of experience teaching in inner city schools. She is currently Head of English and Media Studies at Central Foundation Girls' School in East London where she has put creative criticality at the forefront of English teaching. She is also Chairperson of the Teacher Reference Group, an independent advisory group to the Department for Education and a member of the OCR Natural History GCSE Consultative Forum.