Professional development opportunities can equip educators with the skills and approaches needed to teach global sustainability issues. However, most professional development assessment programs have not been designed with a sustainability education focus.
Education’s role in global sustainability has typically focused on the science behind the solutions. Trained engineers, scientists, biologists and tech entrepreneurs, for example, are pursuing research and developing product-based solutions aimed at addressing social, economic and environmental challenges.
Generative AI such as ChatGPT has prompted conversations about the ethics of knowledge generation and the use of AI in research and evaluation. This discourse provides another opportunity to center equity in our work by asking, how can researchers and evaluators contribute to the public good in an AI world? This presentation from Dr. Aileen M. Reid highlights contextual concerns with AI from an ecosystem perspective, placing emphasis on structural and racial/ethnic inequities, bias, and prejudice. Dr.