The series consists of five webinars and is able to book as a full package only. We recommend watching live on the dates below. Recordings will also be available to booked delegates until the end of the term.

Teaching history with AI: an introduction 
Wednesday 17 September, 4pm–5pm
Presenter: Will Van Reyk
This session will provide an overview of how history teachers can use AI as part of their teaching. Absolutely no technical knowledge is needed. It is a session that will cover the broad basics but also offer tips for those who are familiar with using AI. The focus will not be on specific AI models but general platforms such as ChatGPT. Read more

Beyond the gimmicks: leveraging AI to support history teaching
Wednesday 24 September, 4pm–5pm
Presenter: Kieran Lavis
Building from the more general introduction in Session 1, the recent explosion of AI tools has created a cacophony that can feel overwhelming. With the pressures of teaching and everyday life, it's difficult to find the time to distinguish between what is genuinely useful and what is merely a gimmick. In this session, history teacher Kieran Lavis shares a range of AI tools that he has deployed and found helpful in his own practice and that have resonated with colleagues during training sessions. Rather than evangelising, the session aims to present practical, history-specific applications of AI and create space for open discussion through Q&A. Read more

AI and its potential role in supporting the planning of history lessons
Wednesday 8 October, 4pm–5pm
Presenter: Will Bailey-Watson
This session will look at what particular role AI can play in supporting history teachers in their lesson planning. This will include questions around ethics, discipline integrity, workload, and teacher creativity. The aim will be to show a range of ways that history teachers can harness AI to support planning and resource production, what the pitfalls can be, and ultimately provide a critical and creative mindset for potentially utilising AI technology in the future.

When pupils use AI: navigating the calm and difficult waters
Tuesday 18 November, 4pm–5pm
Presenter: Emily Folorunsho
Pupils use AI both at the instigation of their teachers and also in their own approaches to their learning. Sometimes AI provides a highly supportive tool, but sometimes AI can be misused by pupils. Navigating this as a teacher can be difficult. In this session, Emily Folorunsho will unpack how teachers can navigate these waters with their students.

Why history is the future: the centrality of historical thinking in the post-AI world
Wednesday 3 December, 4pm–4.45pm
Presenters: Kieran Lavey and Katharine Burn
The proliferation of generative artificial intelligence is transforming education, the economy and society at a blistering pace. In the face of such seismic change, attention has rightly turned to the kind of education that young people will need to navigate this new and uncertain future. The prevailing solution presented in academic literature and government policy is AI literacy: the ability to thoughtfully deploy AI tools, evaluate their efficacy, understand how they function, and critically assess their impact on the world. In this session, Dr Katharine Burn and Kieran Lavis discuss the striking parallels between historical thinking and the core competencies of AI literacy. The discussion will explore the argument that history, far from being marginalised, is uniquely positioned to cultivate the habits of mind that students will need to thrive in a post-AI world.

The course is for anyone who teaches history at Key Stage 3, 4 or 5 – whatever your previous level of experience with AI. You might be at the beginning of your engagement or have dabbled but you want to develop your knowledge further, or more experienced but want to sharpen your thinking around this fast-moving issue and its implications specifically for history education.

This webinar series will enable you to:

- Develop awareness of a variety of AI applications and how these can be used in history teaching.
- Develop confidence and criticality in using AI in history education.
- Consider, understand and evaluate the crucial importance of studying history in a post-AI world.

Will Van Reyk (Session 1) is Deputy Head, Director of Innovation at St Paul's Girls' School in London. He regularly writes about AI and education and thinks it is really important that historians engage with AI and ensure that technological change and indeed education itself is shaped as much by those of use in the humanities as it is those in STEM fields.

Kieran Lavis (Sessions 2 and 5) is a history teacher at Bartholomew School in Eynsham. Over the last two years, he has explored the intersection of AI and pedagogy in his own classroom and through delivering AI training for teachers across his trust.

The webinars are available to book as a package of five only. This is charged at £60 for HA members and £90 for non-members (inclusive of VAT). We are able to offer the webinars in this series at a lower cost because it has been subsidised.

Did you know? You save 33% as an HA member by accessing your tickets at the membership rate, plus a range of other benefits all year round. Find out more about HA membership.

The webinars will take place online over Zoom. While we strongly recommend participating live, if you are unable to attend for any reason a recording link will be made available. This will be emailed to all registered participants to access for a limited period until the end of the term.

To book for the webinars, you will either need to have an active HA membership or a free basic account. You will need to be logged in to your account before you purchase this course by card.

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