AI in Education Webinar Series – Protecting Thinking, Preserving the Environment… and Innovating with AI? 10 November 2026

10:00-10:45 (UK time)

Facilitated by Stephen Taylor

Hosted by Sarah Kupke

As more research emerges about the impacts of AI on thinking, agency and the planet, students are becoming attuned to the risks, rewards and costs associated with it. At the same time, they see a changing world accelerated by technology and are looking for sustainable solutions to preparing for their futures. In this session, we’ll explore some of the ethical and environmental issues associated with AI, use a Footprint Estimator to evaluate our own choices and make the connection with quality thinking. We’ll also look at some prompting techniques that promote thinking and use AI more efficiently, and a student workshop that you can use in your school, towards a Proposal for Sustainable AI.

Stephen is an international educator, with over 20 years of experience in IB schools in Indonesia, Japan and China. Currently Director of Innovation in Learning & Teaching at the Western Academy of Beijing, he has been an IB Biology, Science and Health teacher, EdTech integrator, MYP, CAS and DP Coordinator. He is passionate about innovative learning futures that promote learner agency, hope and sustainable, ethical futures. A former coach for Project Zero’s Creating Cultures of Thinking courses online, he holds an MA in International Education and is currently pursuing an EdD, with a focus on AI, Competencies and Agency for changing futures.

In 2022, he created the (If You) USEME-AI framework for school adaptation to AI, and has shared his learning on i-Biology and The Wayfinder Learning Lab for over 15 years. A cross-culture parent, ocean lover, bedroom DJ, avid reader, part-time writer and sci-fi lover, he believes that we should be pragmatic idealists in the face of change, holding onto our values as we tackle the sticky problems of now.