Twenty-First Century Technology and Language Education: Thinking Together About Some Existential Questions

In this talk, Dr. Kern will argue that Generative AI has shifted the ground upon which language teachers have based much of their language teaching (and their role as teachers) for centuries, and that they must imperatively (re-)articulate their goals, without making those goals subservient to the affordances of technological tools. He will share a few ideas on how AI technology might be incorporated in productive ways in language classrooms, with a discovery approach to pedagogy.