AI Am Ready: Artificial Intelligence as Pedagogical Scaffold

Date:

July 23rd, 2025 (UTC +8)

Organizer:

College of Communication, Art and Design, University of the Philippines Cebu

Committe Member

Background

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing education by offering new ways to personalize learning, automate administrative tasks, and enhance student engagement. From intelligent tutoring systems and adaptive learning platforms to AI-powered content generation and multimodal analytics, AI is increasingly integrated into teaching and learning environments. These advancements promise to support educators in addressing diverse learning needs, optimizing assessment processes, and fostering creative, inquiry-based learning. However, the rapid adoption of AI in education raises critical questions about pedagogical effectiveness, ethical implications, and accessibility. As AI becomes an integral part of learning environments, there is an urgent need to explore its role as a pedagogical scaffold—a support mechanism that enhances, rather than replaces, human-centered learning experiences. This symposium provides a space for educators, researchers, and AI practitioners to examine how AI can serve as an effective, ethical, and inclusive learning scaffold.

Goal/Rationale:

The growing reliance on AI in education presents both opportunities and challenges. AI-driven systems can personalize learning by adapting to students’ progress, providing real-time feedback, and facilitating interactive learning experiences. However, concerns such as algorithmic bias, data privacy, and the potential for over-reliance on automation must be addressed to ensure AI’s responsible integration into education. Through interactive discussions and hands-on activities, participants will critically evaluate AI’s role in education and co-develop strategies for leveraging its potential while mitigating risks.

This symposium seeks to explore AI’s role as a cognitive scaffold that supports student learning through adaptive technologies, investigate how AI can enhance formative and summative assessments through automated feedback and data-driven insights, examine AI’s ability to support multimodal learning, including text-based, auditory, and visual learning strategies, address ethical and equity concerns to ensure AI enhances rather than exacerbates educational disparities, and foster collaboration between educators, instructional designers, and AI developers to co-create best practices for AI-assisted pedagogy.

Call for Papers

This symposium invites educators, researchers, instructional designers, AI developers, and policymakers to explore the intersection of artificial intelligence and education. No prior technical expertise is required; participants are encouraged to engage with an open mind and discuss AI’s diverse implications for learning environments. Key themes will include AI-driven personalization and adaptive learning systems, automated feedback and assessment tools, and multimodal AI-assisted learning strategies. The symposium will also address ethical concerns in AI-powered education, such as bias, privacy, and transparency, while examining AI's role in promoting equity and inclusion. Through collaborative discussions, case studies, and hands-on AI tool exploration, participants will create a shared roadmap for responsible AI implementation in education, ensuring that AI serves as an empowering pedagogical resource rather than an opaque or exclusionary barrier. By the end of the symposium, attendees will gain insights into AI's educational implications and identify actionable strategies for ethical adoption in their contexts, with discussions extending beyond the guiding themes.

Topics

The main topics of this symposium are listed below.

Meanwhile, submissions aligned with the overall conference theme are also welcome.

Submission

All submitted papers should report original and unpublished work, experimental or theoretical, and are not under consideration for publications elsewhere. All papers should be no less than 4 pages in length and must strictly follow the format of the symposium template. All papers are subject to reviews and edits. Prospective authors are kindly invited to submit full text papers that includes title, abstract, introduction, tables/figures and references. Other styles of papers are not accepted. Please submit your papers in both .doc/.docx AND .pdf formats as attachments via email to sympo_cebu@iceipi.org by the given deadline. It is unnecessary to submit an abstract in advance.

Paper Template

Publication

Accepted papers of the symposium will be published in Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media (Print ISSN 2753-7048), and will be submitted to Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), Crossref, CNKI, Portico, Google Scholar and other databases for indexing. The situation may be affected by factors among databases like processing time, workflow, policy, etc.

* The papers will be exported to production and publication on a regular basis. Early-registered papers are expected to be published online earlier

This symposium is organized by ICEIPI 2025 and it will independently proceed the submission and publication process

Ways to Participate

Attendance Onsite

The symposium welcomes participants to attend on-site and share the innovative experiences and researches with the group. Therefore, we provide some general information about the visa application. If you want to attend the symposium on-site, please email the symposium committee: sympo_cebu@iceipi.org.

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