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Empowering Minds: A Round Table on Generative AI and Education in Asia-Pacific Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO Bangkok The emergence of generative AI, a recent groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) technology capable of producing sophisticated content from text and images to simulations and audiovisuals, has become a transformative force across multiple sectors. Popular applications like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude are prime examples of the rapidly expanding range of generative AI tools that are having an impact in education across the Asia-Pacific. These tools offer unprecedented opportunities for enabling personalized learning experiences at scale and expanding access to high-quality learning resources. However, as generative AI increasingly reshapes classrooms, critical questions remain unanswered, such as:- How can generative AI be ethically and responsibly integrated into educational settings?- What policies and safeguards are needed to address issues like misinformation, algorithmic bias and threats to academic integrity?- What challenges do Asia-Pacific countries face in harnessing generative AI in education, given the region’s unique context?- What are the strategies for Asia-Pacific countries to take up opportunities offered by generative AI, while mitigating the risks? In response to these questions and emerging challenges in the region, the UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok (UNESCO Bangkok), in collaboration with The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO), organized the regional experts meeting on 7-9 November 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand. This hybrid meeting, titled ‘Empowering Minds: A Round Table on Generative AI and Education in Asia-Pacific’, explored the implications of generative AI for teacher training and development. It served as an important platform to leverage opportunities and mitigate risks of generative AI in education across the Asia-Pacific region. 
Media Literacy Smartphone Year of publication: 2020 Author: Renee Hobbs | Pam Steager Corporate author: Media Education Lab Learn how to use the Media Literacy Smartphone with learners of all ages! Download the free Learning Guide to bring the power of media literacy analysis to your learners!These easy-to-use cards, shaped exactly in the size of a smartphone, are available to educators for classroom use. You can use these simple paper cards to introduce a structured approach that helps students learn to critically analyze any media text --- web sites, books, advertising, news, TV shows, movies, video games, magazines and music. One side of the smartphone displays the various "apps" for analyzing a media text and the other side displays the "five critical questions" of media literacy developed by Renee Hobbs.Pair the smart phone with the LOVE IT OR HATE IT cards for a dynamic and fun learning experience. 
How to Understand Misinformation, Disinformation and Malinformation Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: Shout Out UK | U.S. Embassy London | Association for Citizenship Teaching (ACT) We live in a world where information is very easy to fabricate. Now more than ever, media literacy (the ability to critically analyse information) is critical for us as citizens and for our democracy to function. This video explains the difference between Misinformation, Disinformation and Malinformation and presents you with some examples! This video is part of a resource pack created and designed by Shout Out UK, supported by the US Embassy in London and in collaboration with the Association For Citizenship Teaching.For more info: https://www.shoutoutuk.org/media-literacy/ 
UNESCO Arab Regional Education Support Strategy: 2016-2021 Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: UNESCO Beirut Covering the period of 2016-2021, this strategy document aims to provide tangible support for each Member State in the Arab Region, taking into account national needs and priorities and thus employing nationally relevant approaches based on the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. 
Continental Overview: Bridging CESA and SDG 4 in Africa; Africa Regional Report Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) Monitoring progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 4 for education (SDG 4) is crucial to ensuring that children around the world have access to a quality education where they can learn and gain the skills they need to meet their full potential. SDG 4 indicators are organized with a view to global, thematic, regional and national targets.This report by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is the first in a series intended to bring a regional focus to SDG 4 monitoring, highlight the work being done in the regions and compare SDG 4 targets with those established by regional bodies.This new series of regional reports serve two purposes. Firstly, to map regional and SDG 4 targets to provide an overview of the symmetries between the two. Continental Overview: Bridging CESA and SDG 4 in Africa looks at how the strategic objectives of the Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA) compares with SDG 4 targets. Secondly, it analyses progress towards these objectives by African sub-regions. 
‘Hate Speech’ Explained: A Toolkit Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: ARTICLE 19 In this toolkit, ARTICLE 19 provides a guide to identifying ’hate speech‘ and how effectively counter it, while protecting the rights to freedom of expression and equality. It responds to a growing demand for clear guidance on identifying “hate speech,” and for responding to the challenges ‘hate speech’ poses within a human rights framework.The toolkit is guided by the principle that coordinated and focused action taken to promote the rights to freedom of expression and equality is essential for fostering a tolerant, pluralistic and diverse democratic society in which all human rights can be realised for all people.As such, it addresses three key questions: How do we identify ‘hate speech’ that can be restricted, and distinguish it from protected speech?What positive measures can States and others take to counter ‘hate speech’? Which types of ‘hate speech’ should be prohibited by States, and under which circumstances? The toolkit is guided by the principle that coordinated and focused action taken to promote the rights to freedom of expression and equality is essential for fostering a tolerant, pluralistic and diverse democratic society in which all human rights can be realised for all people. It is informed by, and builds upon, ARTICLE 19’s existing policy work in this field.In Part I, we outline that there is no uniform definition of ‘hate speech’ under international human rights law, rather, it is a broad concept which captures a wide range of expression. The toolkit advances a typology for identifying and distinguishing different forms of ‘hate speech’ according to their severity, guided by states’ international human rights law obligations. In Part II, we provide guidance on what policy measures State and non-state actors can undertake to create an enabling environment for freedom of expression and equality that addresses the underlying causes of ‘hate speech’ while maximising opportunities to counter it.Finally, in Part III, we outline the exceptional circumstances in which the State is obliged by international law to prohibit the most severe forms of ‘hate speech’, and where also States may under international law place other restrictions on ‘hate speech’. This includes guidance on ensuring that such prohibitions are not abused, and to ensure that where sanctions are imposed they are appropriate and proportionate, as well as ensuring support and redress for victims.ARTICLE 19 believes that ensuring that responses to ‘hate speech’ comply with international human rights law is crucial. Prohibitions that censor offensive viewpoints are often counter-productive to the aim of promoting equality, as they fail to address the underlying social roots of the kinds of prejudice that drive ‘hate speech’. In most instances, equality is better-promoted through positive measures which increase understanding and tolerance, rather than through censorship.This toolkit is not a definitive version, and will be continuously updated to reflect the developing case law and best practices in this area. 
Glocal Education in Practice: Teaching, Researching, and Citizenship (BCES Conference Books; Vol. 17) Year of publication: 2019 Author: Nikolay Popov | Charl Wolhuter | Louw de Beer | Gillian Hilton | James Ogunleye | Elizabeth Achinewhu-Nworgu | Ewelina Niemczyk Corporate author: Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES) This volume contains selected papers submitted to the XVII Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES) held in June 2019 in Pomorie, Bulgaria. The XVII BCES Conference theme is Glocal Education in Practice: Teaching, Researching, and Citizenship. The book includes 34 papers written by 69 authors from 20 countries. 
Mapping of Media Literacy Practices and Actions in EU-28 Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: European Audiovisual Observatory | Council of Europe A project conducted by the European Audiovisual Observatory and financed by the European Commission This study aims at analysing the various media literacy initiatives on a national or regional level in order to provide an overview of what is currently being undertaken. This is the first major mapping exercise to survey the field in Europe. Although this study does not aim at covering the entire media literacy initiatives, it provides a detailed overview of the main trends, coming out of a selection of 547 featured projects involving 939 stakeholders across the European Union, which were identified through a questionnaire addressed at national experts from the different EU-28 member states. So what is Europe doing to encourage our media literacy? What measures are being taken at national and European levels to foster our critical appreciation and understanding of the mass media? The results of this study can be found in a general report accompanied by 4 annexes: Annex 1 provides national summaries showing the findings of the responses concerning each of the 28 EU member states; Annex 2 contains the list of the 547 featured projects; Annex 3 summarises the 145 case-study projects; Annex 4 contains the original responses from the 29 national experts, which are accessible in separate files available on the website of the European Commission. 
The Role of Education in Addressing Future Challenges Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: Bridge 47 In response to UNESCO’s Futures of Education consultation, Bridge 47 has released the following report on the power that transformative education has to address future challenges, including those linked to inequalities, climate change and health.Through the consultation process UNESCO raises questions about the importance and purpose of education by 2050. In a fast-evolving world, Bridge 47 supports the idea that education should foster the kind of education that helps learners of all ages to become active global citizens and thus contribute to building a more just and sustainable report world for all.The report, ‘The Role of Education in Addressing Future Challenges’, further emphasises the importance of measuring and monitoring the progress towards achieving the transformative vision of education as outlined in Sustainable Development Goal Target 4.7. It is hoped that the overall Future of Education report will encourage a measuring framework for SDG 4.7 that acknowledges the connection between non-formal and formal education as well as supporting dialogue between key actors that the reflect any conceptual shifts within the fields of Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Education. 
The White Paper of EKOME on Media & Information Literacy Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: EKOME S.A. EKOME is concluding 2018 Global UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Week celebrations with the launch of the White Paper on Media & Information Literacy available in Greek & English.The White Paper is EKOME’s viewpoint on the third pillar, Education, setting out a paradigm for a national infrastructure on media and information literacy. By highlighting the main priorities in the field, the White Paper of EKOME aims to contribute to a national strategic plan and build a constructive relationship with the creative industry.