Latest Past Events

Join Us for Lunch: Education with Deepfakes, Hallucinations, and Smartglasses

Victoria University Level 14, Room T1416, 370 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne

Bring your lunch and your curiosity to this provocative, hands-on session designed for educators, researchers, students, and policymakers. Education with Deepfakes, Hallucinations, and Smartglasses invites you to engage with real-world scenarios drawn from global conversations about the future of trust, privacy, and truth in education. Handle smartglasses. Watch a deepfake. Debate a hallucinated report. Together, we’ll explore: A fake video of a student using slurs goes viral—how should schools respond? AI-generated feedback misrepresents a teacher’s intent—who’s accountable? A parent secretly live-streams a student interview—what does consent look like now? This interactive, scenario-based event won't tell you what to think, it will ask you what you’d do. Rather than predicting the future, we’ll interrogate it: surfacing tensions around identity, evidence, and power in an age of synthetic media and surveillance. We’d love to see you there. This event is hybrid. For those wanting to join online, a link will be sent closer to the date after registration. Please note, only those that join us physically are in the running to win a pair of Smart Glasses. You can register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/education-with-deepfakes-hallucinations-and-smartglasses-tickets-1555076789539

Free

The Great Student Debate Competition: Research Skills Webinar

Virtual

To help your students prepare for the Great Student Debate, Seriously Social is partnering with the National Library of Australia to provide a free webinar on digital research skills! What is the NLA Education Great Student Debate Research Skills Webinar? A live, online event led by experts from the National Library of Australia that will show your students how to access and navigate the National Library collection through gallery objects, library services, eResources, Digital Classroom, the catalogue and Trove. Who should attend? Australian school students and teachers, particularly those who wish to take part in the Great Student Debate during Social Sciences Week 2025. When is it? April 1, 1.00pm AEST/2.00PM ADST How much does it cost? Attendance is FREE for school students and teachers. Register here to attend. For more information, email info@socialsciences.org.au

Free