The Impact of Digital and AI Revolution on Traditional Education / Prof. dr Tijana Prodanovic

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the digital revolution has reshaped our everyday lives in so many ways, including how we communicate and, consequently, how we learn. However, as one of the main pillars of each society, education has been very inert and slow to adapt to these changes. In this talk, Tijana will cover some of the main challenges education faces in this digital and now AI-centric world, some possible ways of dealing with these challenges, and discuss technology's role in overcoming them.
Tijana Prodanović is an Associate Professor at the Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, a data scientist/ML engineer at Wonder Dynamics (Autodesk), a science communicator at the Association of Science Communicators Naukom and a TikTok and Instagram influencer known as Dr Cosmic Ray. She holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, where she graduated in 2006 in the field of particle astrophysics. As a teaching
assistant during her PhD studies, Tijana was twice elected an Excellent Teacher. Besides research and teaching at the University, Tijana is very active in promoting science to a wider audience. In 2008 she won the national, and came 2nd in the international Fame Lab competition for the best young science communicator. She was a program coordinator of the Novi Sad Science Festival (2010-2015) and the Researchers Night in Novi Sad Serbia (2011-present). Tijana also spent 4 years teaching astronomy to gifted students at the gymnasium and was a visiting professor at the University of Ljubljana, and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow.