Toni Jones

Toni Jones is the Lead, Education Gen AI for the Generative AI Lab for Education (GAILE) at RMIT, where she works to build generative AI capability across the educator community. Her work focuses on translating emerging AI technologies into meaningful teaching practice through strategy, professional learning, and educator-facing frameworks and resources. She developed the Generative AI Skills Continuum, a practical framework to support capability development in teaching and learning.

A short overview of your experience and perspective on AI: My perspective on AI is both optimistic and critical, and at times I feel conflicted as I wonder: can we make the right decisions now to ensure it supports the flourishing of all?  I’ve seen examples of GenAI in education that excite me and offer a glimpse of what transformative practice can look like.  But these cases are exciting not because of the technology, but because of the educator’s creativity, judgement and imagination they bring to it. For me, GenAI presents a possibility rather than a certainty. The future it shapes is not embedded in the technology, but in the decisions, practices and values that guide its use.