EP313 What students need to know about artificial intelligence (and how to help them learn it)

Many teachers are already seeing incredible results when their students use artificial intelligence to brainstorm creative project ideas, get instant feedback on their writing, and even generate unique artwork. The potential is there for a lot of good…but also, a lot of bad. As educators in this particular moment in time, we have a unique opportunity to guide students in harnessing AI's potential while teaching them to think critically about its limitations and impacts. In this episode, I'll explain exactly what to say and do to help students to be thoughtful, tech-savvy learners in an AI-driven world. This kind of instruction could begin as soon as kids are using devices–after all, even an elementary-aged child who's watching videos on YouTube or playing games from the app store is already being impacted by AI-driven algorithms, images, and text. Obviously, you don't need to go into a ton of detail with kids who aren't using AI, but we're seeing kids as young as fourth graders discovering ChatGPT and using it for assignments, so I think that an awareness of AI is important for teachers of any age group. And of course, we need to understand it for ourselves as adults, so we're...