TrainDL Summit

Program

Thursday, February 22, 2024

13:00 Registration

13:30 Opening

with Welcome Notes by Ulrike Lucke, Potsdam University, Valentina Dagienė, Vilnius University, und Ronald Bieber, Austrian Computer Society

13:50 Keynote: "Never Stop AIxploring"

by Carmen Köhler, analog astronaut, P3R GmbH and Basque Centre for Climate Change

Data is the new gold and its usage has become indispensable. It is collected everywhere, in your smartphone, at your hairdresser, in space. In her keynote, Carmen will talk about the importance of data literacy and why it builds the basis for any good AI application. While doing so, she will also share her non-linear path into data science and why you should never stop AIxploring.

14:50 Coffee break

15:00 Panel "Artificial Intelligence and Data Literacy: Current State and Future Prospects in Education"

with:
- Polina Mosolova, SAP
- llona Schrimpf, KInsecta
- Ingeborg Beckers, KInsecta 
- Dirk Ifenthaler, University of Mannheim and Curtin University (AUS)
- Tilman Michaeli, TU Munich

Moderation: Carolin Henze, GI

16:00 Coffee break + Poster Session

17:00 Policy Dialogue Workshop

The Policy Dialogue Workshop will focus on two core topics of the TrainDL project: the online policy monitor, which enables the comparison of existing relevant policy documents, and the policy recommendations for computer science, STEAM and primary education developed as part of the project. 

18:45 Closing

19:30 Visit to the Computer Games Museum and festive conclusion to the evening
 

Friday, February 23, 2024

09:00 Opening

with Welcome Notes by Christine Regitz, president of the German Informatics Society e. V., Andreas Gramm, teacher in Berlin, and Emilia Sommer, student from Stuttgart, Germany

09:30 Keynote: "One question - Two perspectives"

by Hannah Weissman, code.org and Georgi Dimitrov, European Commission

Moderation: Daniel Krupka, GI

10:30 Coffee break

10:45 Panel "Teaching the Teachers: Cross-National Approaches to Data Literacy and AI Education in Europe"

with:
- Georgi Dimitrov, European Commission
- Cornelia Brückner, Berlin-Brandenburg State Institute for Schools and Media 
- Andreas Gramm, Upper School Coordinator Schadow-Gymnasium, Berlin
- Snieguolė Bagočienė, teacher, Lithuania
- Martin Maier, teacher at the technical secondary school in Neufelden, Austria

Moderation: Maja Denisova, GI

11:45 Lunch break      

13:00 Teaching Materials Workshop

In the Teaching Materials Workshop, after an introduction to AI education and related teaching materials, we invite the participants to try out the teaching materials developed at TrainDL. We then will present the official evaluation of the teaching materials. Finally we will have an open discussion - also about future research questions.

16:00 Closing of the summit

Speaker

     >>   Georgi Dimitrov

Georgi Dimitrov is responsible for the Digital Education unit in the European Commission, Directorate General for Education and Culture. He joined the European Commission in 2008 and was first involved in various roles in setting up the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). He then helped to develop and launch HEInnovate, an initiative by the European Commission and the OECD aimed at supporting universities to become more entrepreneurial. He led the development of the first Digital Education Action Plan adopted in January 2018 and also of the new Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 that was adopted in September 2020. Before joining the Commission, Dimitrov worked for a leading multinational telecommunication company and in a software start-up in Germany. Dimitrov studied at the University of Bonn (M.A.), the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (PhD), and the Open University UK (MBA in Technology Management).

     >>  Carmen Köhler

After training as a hairdresser, Carmen Köhler studied mathematics and obtained a doctorate in physics. She is the founder and CEO of P3R GmbH, which specializes in weather and earth observation data software services. She also conducts research as an analog astronaut in Mars-like regions on Earth for future Mars missions. After working in the field of AI and education, Carmen Köhler is now leading the ARIES team for Artificial Intelligence for Environment and Sustainability at the "BC3 - Basque Center for Climate Change.

     >>  Polina Mosolova

Polina is a data scientist at SAP, developing machine learning and AI solutions for processes like Sales, Finance, and Customer Success. She has obtained an industrial PhD, bringing together computational social science, organizational trust theory, and productization of ML in a business context. Since then, she has been passionate about using AI to solve complex business problems and bring value to organizations. Her current research interests focus on using explainable AI techniques to improve AI development practices, simplify AI-augmented decision-making, and make AI more accessible to end users. She is interested in ethics and responsible AI development and has been recently elected to the Ethics Committee of CorrelAid e.V. She volunteers her time supporting aspiring data scientists in mentoring programs.

     >>   Christine Regitz

Christine Regitz is a member of the Supervisory Board at SAP SE and heads the "Women In Tech" initiative as Vice President. After studying business administration and physics at Saarland University and the Universita Degli Studi Bari (Italy), she began working as a consultant at IDS Prof Scheer. In 1994, she moved to SAP, where she has worked in various roles and functions ever since. In the GI, she was the spokesperson for the "Women and Computer Science" section and a member of the Executive Committee for many years. From 2017 to 2021, she also served as spokesperson for the Economic Advisory Board and from 2016 to 2019 as Vice President. She has been GI President since 2022.

     >>   Dirk Ifenthaler

Professor Dirk Ifenthaler holds the Chair of Business Education - Technology-based Instructional Design at the University of Mannheim and is UNESCO Deputy Chair on Data Science in Higher Education Learning and Teaching at Curtin University, Australia. His research focus combines questions of learning-teaching research, educational technology, data analytics and organizational learning. Professor Ifenthaler is Editor-in-Chief of Technology, Knowledge and Learning and Editor-in-Chief of Educational Technology & Society (https://ifenthaler.info / dirk@ifenthaler.info). 

     >>  Hannah Weissman

Hannah Weissman is the Director of Policy at Code.org, a US-based non-profit focused on expanding access to computer science education. In her role, she advocates for state-level policies that support K-12 computer science programs. Weissman is primary author of the annual "State of Computer Science" report, which provides a detailed overview of the status of computer science education across the US. Her work involves not only developing policies but also ensuring their practical implementation. Weissman emphasizes the importance of making computer science education available to all students, with a particular focus on increasing diversity and inclusivity in the field.

     >>   Ilona Schrimpf

After studying biology with a focus on ecology and zoology at the TU Braunschweig, Ilona Schrimpf switched to environmental education at the Listhof Environmental Education Centre in Reutlingen. One focus of her work in environmental education is teaching about the biodiversity and way of life of native insects. In 2010, she designed the feasibility study for the crawling animal house at the Listhof UBZ with the aim of breeding native butterflies and other invertebrates and familiarising visitors with their way of life. The crawling animal house was realised in 2014 and is a unique facility in Germany at UBZ Listhof. Since then, Ilona Schrimpf has been responsible for the didactic realisation and furnishing of the house. The Crawling Animal House has been an extracurricular research centre since 2014 and was recognised as a UN Decade Project on Biological Diversity in 2015. Ilona Schrimpf worked part-time on the NaDiQuAk nature didactics qualification programme at the Karlsruhe University of Teacher Education from 2010 to 2013. Since 2020, she has been working on the KInsecta project, in which the UBZ Listhof is a joint project partner with the BHT.

     >>   Snieguolė Bagočienė

Snieguolė Bagočienė is an expert teacher of informatics at Vilnius "Sietuvos" Progymnasium, working with students from 5-8 grades, member of Vilnius Methodological Group, coordinator and administrator of STEAM, FABLAB, entrepreneurship activities. She works on various educational projects. She has a Bachelor of Informatics, Master of Business Management and Administration, Master of Mechatronic Systems, and is a PhD student of Informatics Engineering at Vilnius University. Between 2019 and 2022 she has been awarded Innovative Teacher of the Year in Informatics, Teacher of the Year in Mathematics, Vilnius Teacher of the Year, Lithuanian Teacher of the Year, nominated by the Lithuanian Ministry of Education Science and Sports.

     >>   Tilman Michaeli

Tilman Michaeli has headed the Computing Education Research Group at TU Munich since 2021. After studying computer science at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg to become a secondary school teacher, he taught and conducted research as a research assistant in computer science education in Erlangen and at Freie Universität Berlin, where he completed his doctorate in 2020. The aim of his work is not only to explain computer science but to empower everyone to actively and creatively shape the digital world. His research profile is characterized by the combination of empirical and design-oriented teaching research with a practical teaching focus. His research focuses on debugging in the classroom, data and AI literacy, digital education and quantum computing as a topic of computer science education.

     >>   Cornelia Brückner

Cornelia Brückner is a consultant at the State Institute for Schools and Media Berlin-Brandenburg (LISUM), specialising in the DigitalPakt Brandenburg, the development of teachers' digital skills and media development planning. She has been part of the TrainDL consortium since the start of the project in 2021.

     >>   Andreas Gramm

Andreas Gramm has been teaching computer science and English as a foreign language at secondary schools since 2004 and is currently working at Schadow Gymnasium in Berlin, Germany. Next to teaching, Andreas conducted a teacher training seminar and served as examiner for the practical training phase (Referendariat) from 2008 to 2018. Today, he fulfils the position of Co-ordinator of the Senior Level Curriculum (Oberstufenkoordinator), organising students’ courses and the school leaving examinations at Schadow Gymnasium. Andreas is a member of the board of the local group to promote CS education in the Berlin region Fachgruppe Informatik-Bildung in Berlin und Brandenburg (IBBB) with the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), helping organize conferences and professional training for CS educators. Andreas has co-authored several publications on the application of a context-aware CS education approach to the topic of promoting encryption of private communication over public infrastructure.

     >>   Martin Maier

Martin Maier teaches ethics, social and personal skills, history and German at a technical secondary school in Neufelden, Austria. After completing his teacher training in Vienna and Novi Sad, he studied ethics at the University College of Teacher Education in Linz, focusing on issues such as machine ethics.

     >>   Ulrike Lucke

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Ulrike Lucke has held the Chair of Complex Multimedia Application Architectures at the University of Potsdam since 2010. She studied computer science at the University of Rostock and completed her doctorate and habilitation in the subject. She was active in the GI from 2008 to 2014 as spokesperson for the e-learning section, since 2014 as a member of the Executive Board and since 2015 in the Executive Board working group on e-science. She was CIO of the University of Potsdam from 2010 to 2018 and is deputy chair of the University CIO Association.

>>    Ingeborg Beckers

Ingeborg Beckers is an experimental physicist and Professor of Medical Physics at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (BHT) in the field of optics, imaging and image processing. She completed her doctorate in the field of semiconductor physics at the Philipps University of Marburg and worked as a postdoc at the Helmholtz Centre for Materials and Energy in the field of correlating optical and electrical properties of materials for solar cell research. She is particularly interested in projects in which AI is used in the interests of sustainability. This is also the case in the KInsecta project, which she and Frank Haußer are carrying out with the Listhof e.V. environmental education centre. The project involves the development of an AI-based multi-sensor system for classifying insects.

>>   Emilia Sommer

Emilia Sommer is a 10th grade student at the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium in Stuttgart. She is 15 years old and an active member of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.).