The Future of Education

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the benefits of using artificial intelligence tools such as Chat GPT in order to create, based on a given material and on given instructions, visual materials such as collages for a course in British Culture and Civilization. This course has been taught by the author of the present paper during the academic year 2025-2026, second semester, to second year BA level students specialized in Translation and Interpretation, having English as a main foreign language. The course curricula was designed by the author of the present paper to be built around the way in which various historical references from the past of British culture and civilization are still relevant today. As we walk throughout cities and rural areas, and as we look at landscapes throughout the territory of the UK, we can see various details that can be explained based on the history of the UK, starting from names of London boroughs, which take us to the ancient Roman past of these areas, and ending up with 18th and 19th century Great Britain, which were the main time periods when modern society as we know it today began, based on various important institutions such as tea and coffee houses. The author of the present paper has used her class materials and her prompts to create, for the last courses, collages in order to illustrate for students various topics, starting from the UK shopping malls, types of houses in London, and moving on to influence of the 18th-19th century UK institutions, and typical British stories such as mystery and deterctive stories. We know that visual materials may have a high impact since we rely most of all on the visual sense in order to understand the world and get our information about the outside world. The methodological framework is made up of teaching techniques, visual impact, cultural awareness and psychology.

Keywords: psychology, visual sense, cultural empathy, cultural awareness

Benavides, D., Murcia, L., & Niño, M. (2009). Observing before learning: Visual material for the learning of English as a foreign language. HOW, 16(1), 93-111.

Hutmacher, F. (2019). Why is there so much more research on vision than on any other sensory modality?. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 481030.

Muskrat, J. (1970). The Need for Cultural Empathy. The School Review, 79(1), 72-75.