JALT2024 Plenary Speaker: Transforming Education: Embracing New Ways of Teaching with Generative AI While Promoting Diversity

“Moving JALT into the Future: Opportunity, Diversity, and Excellence,” is not merely the title of JALT’s 50th conference, but a call to action for all educators to innovate and adapt to our evolving educational landscape while encouraging students to understand their position and the place of others in our global society. Richard Culatta (2022), CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education explains, COVID-19 brought opportunities for innovations greater than any seen in decades, pushing the digital infrastructure upon us that we should have developed many years earlier. In many ways, the timing of that push was critical. Because in late 2022, we were shaken out of any digital malaise we had again developed as generative AI started coming for our classrooms!