The Learner’s Role as an Acting Person and Emerging Technologies

Grounding Educational Policy on the Use of AI

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https://doi.org/10.26034/fr.jehe.2024.6866

Keywords:

Artificial intelligence, educational policy, learner’s role as an acting person, Karol Wojtyla, the personalist foundation in ethics

Abstract

The approach to empower learners as the subject in the use of AI is in line with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s AI and Education Guidance for Policy-Makers and is pursued in recognition of the three paradigmatic shifts in the use of AI in educational setting. To strengthen the role of learners as leaders in the use of AI, this article uses the idea of the acting person from Karol Wojtyla. The concept of the acting person focuses on moral responsibility founded in human consciousness and conducted through human actions. The moral act of an acting person leads to responsible use that requires the commitment to the common good. In the first part, I will describe the history and development of AI technologies. In the second part, I will discuss the idea of the acting person and the AI as an acting machine. In the last part, I will present an analysis of the importance of grounding educational policy on the use of AI in learners’ ethical role as the acting person.

Author Biography

Irene Ludji, Vice Dean and a Lecturer of Ethics at the Faculty of Theology at Satya Wacana Christian University (UKSW) in Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia

Rev. Irene Ludji, Ph.D is Vice Dean and a Lecturer of Ethics at the Faculty of Theology at Satya Wacana Christian University (UKSW) in Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia. She graduated with a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D) degree in Philosophy of Religion and Theology from Claremont Graduate University. Irene’s research interests include the ethics of solidarity, the ethics of nonviolence, Indonesian social ethics, and Christian ethics.

Email: irene.ludji@uksw.edu

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2024-12-30

How to Cite

Ludji, I. (2024). The Learner’s Role as an Acting Person and Emerging Technologies : Grounding Educational Policy on the Use of AI. Journal of Ethics in Higher Education, (5), 121–144. https://doi.org/10.26034/fr.jehe.2024.6866

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No. 5 (2024): Ethics in Open and Distance Education

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Thematic Articles

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