Full course description
Date and time
Thursday 27 August 2026, 9.00 am to 3.30 pm
Wednesday 16 September 2026, 4.00 pm to 5.00 pm - Online Follow up
Delivery mode
In person at ISV, 40 Rosslyn St, West Melbourne
Audience
Curriculum leaders, heads of learning, classroom teachers across all subjects, and assessment coordinators.
Description
As AI tools make it easier for students to generate polished products instantly, schools must rethink assessment design. This workshop explores how teachers can create more authentic, process focused, and future-relevant learning experiences that value human thinking, creativity, reflection, and problem-solving.
Topics covered
- Why traditional assessment is under pressure
- Designing AI-resilient assessment tasks
- Process-over-product approaches with a focus on digital portfolios
- Using drafts, reflection, and documentation
- Oral explanations and learning conversations
- Authentic and real-world learning tasks
- Assessing critical and creative thinking
- Maintaining academic integrity in an AI era
Key takeaways
- Identify where current assessments are vulnerable to AI shortcuts and where genuine learning is best evidenced
- Redesign tasks to surface process, drafting, reflection, and student voice
- Build a toolkit of AI-resilient, authentic, and conversation-based assessment formats
- Maintain academic integrity while embracing AI as a learning tool, not a threat
Presenter information
Tim Kitchen
Dr Kitchen has been an educator for over 30 years, and is considered one of Australia’s leading voices in digital creativity and education innovation. A passionate advocate for empowering students and teachers through creative technologies, Tim has taught across primary, secondary, and higher education and has inspired thousands of teachers, students and school support staff through his workshops and keynotes. A bestselling author and frequent presenter at national and international education events, Tim was Adobe’s Senior Education Specialist for Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia from 2013 to 2025. Today, he continues to share his expertise and enthusiasm exploring new ways to spark creativity in the learning & teaching process with a focus on safe & ethical AI use through his consultancy called CTL - Creative Teaching & Learning and his work as an Associate with The Next Word and Senior Consultant with CulturePatrhAI.