Portugal - Artificial Intelligence was the theme of the Salesian Communication Days
Lisbon, Portugal – June 2024 - About 50 Salesian educators and communicators participated in the Salesian Days of Communication, held on 7 June at the Salesians in Manique. With the theme "Artificial Intelligence: the new frontier of communication in the school environment", a group of speakers, including journalists, communicators and teachers, presented some notions about this new technology, opportunities, challenges and applications. Fr Javier Valiente, SDB, Delegate for Social Communication for the Salesians in Spain; Octávio Carmo, Vaticanist and journalist of the Agência Ecclesia; Joana Belez, deputy audio and multimedia director of the "Grupo Impresa"; Bruna Ferreira, storyteller and Content Manager of Quidgest; Rodrigo Castro, founder and CEO of Educa-te, Carla Nave and Ana Marta Flores, researchers of the iNova Media Lab; João Filipe Matos, former full professor at the University of Lisbon, and Pedro Cabral, director of the NAU platform, of the Foundation for Science and Technology, presented their views on the impact that Artificial Intelligence is having in communication and education, and in all areas of human activity, culture, economy and politics. In the afternoon, some AI tools and the NAU Platform for teacher training were presented. At the end of the meeting, the Provincial of the Salesians in Portugal, Fr Tarcízio Morais, argued that AI, as a tool, has the potential to help educators. “Especially as educators, I think it is up to us to have the creative capacity to use these tools, but also the ability to guide our students towards their use with a critical, ethical sense and for the enhancement of others”, the Provincial said.
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