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Zoe McKeown

@ZoeMSUL

Information Officer, Scottish Union Learning. Passionate about fairness in education and equality in the workplace.

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linkhttps://www.scottishunionlearning.com/ calendar_today06-04-2022 09:33:36

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Catherine Garvie, Scottish Union Learning Senior Development Officer, closes our 16th annual event, with a vote of thanks to all attendees and speakers.

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Participants are now feeding back from their smaller breakout sessions on their experiences of maths anxiety - another moving and emotive session covering the differences in emotions we all have around mathematics and numeracy.

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After a quick break for lunch, we are back for a workshop with Stephen McGuire, lead tutor with The WEA. Stephen will be taking us through a presentation on Maths Anxiety

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Dr. Catherine Deveney from NUJ Scotland discusses an NUJ/cross trade union publication, Patchwork Poetry and Prose, which features contributions from a range of trade unionists. All proceeds from the sale of the book will go to Samaritans.

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We're back for a workshop by Johanna and Kirsty from Scot Communities CAN on climate change, and the ways in which we can engage in a dialogue on climate change with each other

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Craig and Daniel of Digital Skills Education wrap up their session on AI and Cyber Crime by reiterating the need to be healthily sceptical of online communications.

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Through demonstration of image and text generation tools, the workshop covered ways in which works , and how people are targeted by sophisticated AI based scams.

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Delegates undertaking the Digital Skills Education workshop are learning that a lot of internet scams come via a social media messaging feature. They are also learning about the three things scammers use to try and scam online users: Authority, Urgency, and Emotion

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David reiterates that it is important that trade union values are embedded into advances within AI, and that AI works for workers and humanity, not the other way round

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David takes us through a brief history of technological advances, and discusses the way this has impacted upon work and workers. He also covers a brief history of

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Up first, Catherine Garvie, SUL Senior Development Officer, welcomes delegates to the Event, and encourages delegates to interact with the presentations, and share the event on social media using the tags and

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