Baru Obračajová

As a teacher with a focus on innovation, tech, and design, I rely quite heavily on EdTech and tech in general. I am a big believer that we need to create safe spaces for the students to explore and tinker with technological tools.

The above is especially true in legal education, as we are talking about an industry that is generally quite behind in technological literacy.

Therefore, I was very happy to be give a talk about using tech in education at my Department of Legal Skills at Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague, where I teach Moderní právníci.

What did we talk about?

In the spirit of human-centric design, our topics revolved around the challenges that law school teachers and students face:

• how to make engaging, educative, and interactive class content
• how to harness data to make our classes tailored to the needs of our students
• how to structure interactive, clinical experience powered by legal design
• how to use tech to ease up the administrative tasks
• how to leverage multimedia (did you know I recorded a podcast for my students?) and of course
• how to prepare students to proactively and safely use Generative AI

We covered a multitude of solutions, including software that we have licensed within the university, but that doesn’t get used up to its potential (a pretty common vice in organisations of all sorts, if you ask me).

How did it go?

The talk was very hands on, with interactive figma board, multiple case studies, and a very lively debate on the various approaches.

• Experiment and prototype – even if it doesn’t work, you’ll learn something (if you log the data and feedback)
• Use the tech you have (university licenses can be pretty broad)
• Best prompting technique? Rather encourage students to try things out

The highlight, however, was (perhaps unsurprisingly) our deep dive into Generative AI. We talked about tons of specific examples of how we can use a variety of tools (such as Canva, Figma) in combination with Generative AI to craft innovative solutions to legal challenges.

We talked about making custom GPTs, about operational gains, about how to prompt most efficiently. It was intense – and awesome.

What did we learn from that?

This workshop wasn’t just about learning new tools; it was a journey into the future of legal education. It was a discussion about how we, as legal professionals and educators, can embrace these innovations to foster a more engaging, efficient, and accessible legal education system.

How do you integrate tech and design into educating or learning?