Opening Keynote
Empowering Students as Readers in an Age of GenAI
In this age of generative AI where short summaries can be quickly generated and information obtained with a prompt, does reading still matter and why? In this keynote presentation, Associate Professor Loh Chin Ee will explain why reading continues to matter, examine adolescents’ diverse reasons for reading, and offer implications for personalising pedagogy to empower our students as readers.
Associate Professor Loh Chin Ee’s research focuses on young people’s reading at the intersection of globalisation and technological changes as well as the role of school libraries in fostering reading for pleasure and lifelong learning. She is Principal Investigator of Reading Futures Study: A Longitudinal Cross-Case Comparison of Adolescents’ Print and Digital Reading Practices and editor of The Reading Lives of Teens: Research & Practice (Routledge, 2025).