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Workshop

MCML Thinkathon: Future of Schools

Translating AI Research Into Teaching Practice

   11.12.2025

   3:00 pm - 8:00 pm

   TUM, Campus Munich, Arcisstr. 21, Room 4905

The MCML Thinkathon is dedicated to bridging the gap between cutting-edge research and Bavarian educational practice. Its goal is to translate current insights from AI research into concrete workshop kits for teachers.

These kits aim to enable educators to foster AI literacy and meaningfully integrate artificial intelligence into classroom teaching -not by introducing new tools, but through the strategic embedding of current AI concepts into existing curricula.

Each group will work on a specific research area that can be particularly well connected to school subjects -such as AI in biology, medicine, physics, ethics, social sciences, or in computer science and engineering.

Agenda

15:00

Welcome:

Anna Maria Schneider (MCML)

  • Introduction of jury and mentors

  • Task and objectives

15:15

Keynote

Prof. Dr. Tilman Michaeli (Chair of Computer Science Didactics, TUM)

  • Making AI tangible: Insights for designing effective outreach and teaching offerings

15:30

Practical Introduction

Dr. Steffen Schneider (KI macht Schule! / Helmholtz Center Munich / MCML)

  • On the collaborative creation of teaching materials

15:45

Coffee & Group Formation

16:00

Thinkathon

18:30

Results Session: Pitches

19:00

Dinner / Project Evaluation by Jury

19:30

Announcement of Results & Awards

Prof. Uta Hauck-Thum (Chair of Primary School Education and Didactics, LMU)

  • Teaching and learning in the culture of digitality

20:00

Closing & Farewell

Anna Maria Schneider (MCML)

Mentors

  • Prof. Tilman Michaeli (TUM)

  • Dr. Steffen Schneider (KI-macht-Schule!/Helmholtz/MCML)

  • Herr Christian Hoffmann (Staatsinstitut für Schulqualität und Bildungsforschung)

     

Jury Members

  • Prof. Uta Hauck-Thum (LMU Munich)
  • Prof. Reinhard Oldenburg (University of Augsburg)
  • Frau Verena Sperber (Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Unterricht und Kultus)

This event is for MCML members only.


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