Digital future schools: AI and energy curriculum for future learning
This project works with young people to imagine the sustainable energy implications of an AI-rich world, and how we might progress toward desirable ‘AI energy futures’.
At present, issues around energy and environmental implications of AI technology are absent from the school curriculum. In this project, Monash researchers in partnership with Monash Tech School, will use the DEF scenarios to develop a co-designed curriculum for high school students (initially Years 7-9) that builds students’ futures expertise in AI for social good. In addition, the project aims to produce student-led scenarios for future AI in schools that provide inspiration and innovation for energy planning.
The project has the potential to generate significant societal impact that supports Monash’s Impact 2030 Challenges of the Age, particularly Climate Change and Thriving Communities. Schools are key sites for the energy transition, both in terms of their daytime consumption and ability to produce renewable energy. The project will allow young people to tangibly investigate the future impacts of AI and emerging technologies, natural disasters and extreme weather, and other anticipated global megatrends on future learning and everyday life.
Scenarios
Media
Investigators
Yolande Strengers, Neil Selwyn, Bronwyn Cumbo, Markus Wagner, Kari Dahlgren, Fareed Kaviani
Contact: Yolande Strengers
Email: yolande.strengers@monash.edu