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Landeslehrpreisträger 2023: Tenure-Track-Professor Moritz Dörstelmann vom KITRiccardo Prevete, KIT
State Teaching Award 2023 for Innovation/Transformation goes to Moritz Dörstelmann

Moritz Dörstelmann's research-oriented teaching revolves around recyclable and resource-friendly construction. Together with students from various disciplines, he creates digital models and experiments with test buildings made of natural materials such as clay and willow to investigate the digital prefabrication of components as a prototype. With his innovative concept, he contributes to the transformation of the construction industry as a socially relevant response to the climate, resource, and energy crisis. For this, the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts has awarded him the 2023 State Teaching Award in the category innovation/transformation.

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TATuP Chatbots as a Pedagogical Challenge for Schools and Teaching

From an pedagogical perspective, artificial intelligence and chatbots are just another opportunity to educate, train, and ultimately learn to act responsibly. This thesis is put forward by Britta Klopsch and Johannes Gutbrod in the Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory und Practice (TATuP). After all, the declared aim of all teaching efforts is the ability to make educated judgments. Anyone who wants to use chatbots for online research, homework, presentations, or the like must first be able to ask the right questions and critically scrutinize the artificially generated answers. This ability to assess and reason is the result of education, not of chatting to intelligent online tools.

doi.org/10.14512/tatup.32.3.72
YIN Day Panel
15th YIN Anniversary celebrated with (Vice-)Presidents from KIT, HGF, and DFG

Under the patronage of the Acting President of KIT Oliver Kraft and the President of the Helmholtz Association Otmar Wiestler, the Young Investigator Network celebrated its 15th anniversary. Together with Karin Jacobs, vice-president at the German Research Foundation (DFG), and Kathrin Valerius, former YIN spreaker and professor at KIT, the patrons step on the podium to discuss the future for young scientific talents in Germany. With ample time for networking in between, YIN members chose the occation to present their scientific work and honor the YIN speakers who have kept the network working and alive over all those years. Thanks to all participants, supporters, and followers of YIN!

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