Challenged or empowered? Educators of gifted and talented students may experience both as they face the rise of generative AI like ChatGPT. It is challenging because AI calls on educators to change how they teach, and it is empowering as it alleviates the burden of knowledge transfer.

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Now is the time to re-focus towards investigative learning, cultivating astute questions, critical evaluation, and self-reflection. How can we accomplish this? Jagmeet Kanwal, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Georgetown University, will consider the impact of AI on how we think and learn. Matthew Jaskol, Founder of Pioneer Academics, the only fully-accredited online research program for high school students, will share experiences and strategies to unlock gifted students’ potential for original thinking.

This workshop is sponsored and presented by Pioneer Academics and will offer unique insights into the science and art of AI enhanced gifted education.

Presenters:

Dr. Jagmeet Kanwal

Dr. Kanwal is an associate professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and a founding member of the Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences. During his tenure at Georgetown, his research laboratory has focused on bats, zebrafish, nonhuman primates, and human subjects to understand neural coding and brain mechanisms underlying auditory processing (speech, music and nonverbal sounds) and socio-emotional communication. He directs the laboratory for Auditory Communication, Cognition and Decision-making at Georgetown University.

Dr. Kanwal is an internationally recognized neuroethologist. He uses interdisciplinary approaches to understand the functional organization of the brain from the viewpoint of behavior.

Matthew Jaskol

Matthew Jaskol founded Pioneer Academics in 2012 with the intent of offering deep intellectual exploration to gifted high school students. Empowering gifted 9th~12th graders to conduct college-level research, Pioneer is respected for its selectivity and rigor. Selected students are mentored first in small groups and then engage in 1:1 research guided by professor mentors. Matthew is a frequent speaker of educational conferences and opinion contributor of educational media.

Register Today for this free webinar. Registrants will have access to the recorded session for 30 days after March 29.