quality in education. Our strength is our associativity. From Chile we want to contribute to the development of education in Latin America through research, publications and collaborative work. We want to approach a pedagogy based on the discursive genre, with meaningful and contextualized learning experiences, which help students to join the disciplines, the world of work and society. It is a democratization of knowledge.
During the meeting, Dr. Daniel Cassany, researcher at Pompeu Fabra University, gave the lecture "How does literacy change with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI)?", where he spoke about the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT, Lexus, Perplexity and DeepL in the educational system, highlighting the ethical challenges, such as transparency and verification of information. Cassany stressed that although technology is accessible and has positive results, it also presents biases and challenges, and that its use must be honest and ethical to improve teaching and learning.
The day also saw the launching of the books La niña maga de la ciudad sin nombre, by academic Mailing Rivera, and Didáctica de la alfabetización disciplinar en Historia, by professors Marisol Velásquez and Jean Carlos Órdenes together with historian Milena Vidal. The latter work was the winner of the Academic Monographs 2023 contest, organized by the Academic Vice-Rectory of the PUCV.
Two round tables were also held. The first addressed the topic of internationalization through the PUCV and UNESCO chairs, and the second focused on reading and writing in academic Spanish (L1 and L2), exploring topics such as equity in education, interdisciplinarity and teaching in transnational contexts.
Finally, it should be recalled that the UNESCO Chair in Reading and Writing was created in 1996 through an inter-institutional collaboration agreement between the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), the Universidad del Valle (Colombia) and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile), with the aim of improving education in Latin America.
