Seminar Abstract
Digital divide research usually finds that privileged students gain most from new technologies. Using recent PISA data, Orhan Agirdag asks whether generative AI (GenAI) might reverse this pattern. GenAI use follows existing socioeconomic divides, but linguistic minority students use it more. More frequent educational use goes with smaller achievement gaps, though not always for good reasons: the “good”, “bad” and “ugly” equaliser. The seminar ends with work from the ERC project ChatEQUITY on measuring students’ actual AI skills.
About the speaker
Prof. Dr. Orhan Agirdag is a Professor of Education at KU Leuven and the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on educational inequalities, migration and ethnic diversity, multilingualism, and the role of schools in fostering or reducing social inequalities. At CREATE, he will collaborate primarily with Ronny Scherer and colleagues on projects related to educational equity and the analysis of inequalities in learning outcomes.