Tech EDGE, AI in the Classroom: Three Reasons to Teach Students About AI This Year

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On AI in the Classroom, Guy shares three reasons why you should teach students about AI this year. University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) | College of Education and Human Sciences (CEHS) | Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education (TLTE)

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[00:00:00.116]Coming up on AI in the Classroom.
[00:00:02.285]Three reasons
[00:00:03.119]you must teach your students about AI
[00:00:05.472]this coming year.
[00:00:06.606](upbeat music)
[00:00:11.845]Hi, my name is Guy Trainin
[00:00:13.046]and I'm a professor here at UNL.
[00:00:14.964]And today
[00:00:15.515]I want to talk about the three reasons
[00:00:17.517]you must
[00:00:18.718]teach your students
[00:00:20.153]about AI
[00:00:21.021]this very coming year.
[00:00:22.105]And I know that many of us
[00:00:24.024]do not feel fully ready
[00:00:25.942]to teach about AI.
[00:00:27.510]And notice I said teach about AI.
[00:00:30.363]Not necessarily with AI.
[00:00:32.432]I think that's an different step.
[00:00:34.234]And that also requires more resources
[00:00:37.554]and
[00:00:39.072]making sure that administration
[00:00:41.074]is okay with it.
[00:00:41.875]That you've approved it,
[00:00:43.176]that parents know
[00:00:44.794]and all of these things.
[00:00:46.046]But all of that is true
[00:00:47.580]if you're using AI in your classroom.
[00:00:49.616]And what I'm talking about
[00:00:52.018]is teaching about AI.
[00:00:54.387]So the first reason is that
[00:00:57.006]AI is all around us.
[00:00:58.942]It is changing the world.
[00:01:00.360]It's changing workplaces.
[00:01:02.095]It is being discussed.
[00:01:03.747]Some people are really worried,
[00:01:05.215]some people are really excited,
[00:01:06.583]and some people like me are both.
[00:01:08.701]I'm really worried and really excited
[00:01:10.954]about the potential of AI.
[00:01:12.472]So it is really imperative
[00:01:15.241]that as kids try to figure out
[00:01:16.943]what's happening in the world,
[00:01:18.445]there is a formal opportunity
[00:01:20.997]to learn about AI,
[00:01:22.766]to learn about what it is,
[00:01:24.451]how does it work,
[00:01:25.835]and what might be the implications
[00:01:28.104]for that.
[00:01:28.505]We want them to discuss it,
[00:01:30.023]and we want to make sure they have
[00:01:31.925]the opportunity
[00:01:32.792]also to talk about the things
[00:01:33.960]that worry them,
[00:01:35.044]the things they're worried
[00:01:36.396]that they hear about,
[00:01:37.564]that other people are worried,
[00:01:39.115]and all of that
[00:01:40.416]will make them much better citizens,
[00:01:42.268]much better citizens in the future.
[00:01:45.121]Because again,
[00:01:46.372]AI touches everything we do
[00:01:49.075]and has the potential
[00:01:50.543]to change everything
[00:01:51.928]that is happening in society.
[00:01:53.646]Our job as educators
[00:01:55.231]is, of course, to prepare our students
[00:01:56.666]to be full citizens.
[00:01:58.201]The second reason
[00:01:59.752]is that
[00:02:00.286]we are preparing our students
[00:02:02.722]for the world of work.
[00:02:04.340]And right now,
[00:02:05.425]the world of work
[00:02:06.442]has a lot of AI entering it.
[00:02:09.145]And we must make sure that our students
[00:02:11.998]understand where
[00:02:13.783]and when it's appropriate to use.
[00:02:15.502]How do you use it well,
[00:02:17.387]and what are the limitations of AI?
[00:02:19.522]These, of course, will change
[00:02:21.624]and develop over time,
[00:02:23.026]but especially
[00:02:23.810]if you've got high school students,
[00:02:25.278]they might be out in the work world
[00:02:27.797]in a very short amount of time.
[00:02:29.549]They will definitely be at university
[00:02:31.885]before too long.
[00:02:33.236]And so you want to make sure
[00:02:35.054]that they're coming with ways
[00:02:36.773]to think about the tools,
[00:02:38.458]about the ethics
[00:02:39.442]of using the tools, how
[00:02:40.944]to effectively using the
[00:02:42.478]be using the tools and all of that
[00:02:44.697]before they have to use them.
[00:02:47.150]And they're already being judged
[00:02:48.501]on how they're used.
[00:02:49.586]And the third reason,
[00:02:50.687]and this is really,
[00:02:52.705]really important to remember,
[00:02:53.923]whether we allow it or not
[00:02:55.425]allow it in schools,
[00:02:56.759]whether we have the opportunity
[00:03:00.413]to use it in one way or another
[00:03:02.448]or it's completely
[00:03:04.601]not allowed.
[00:03:06.085]Students are having opportunities
[00:03:08.421]to use AI supervised or unsupervised
[00:03:11.090]because many of them
[00:03:12.442]have individual devices,
[00:03:13.726]and if they don't have
[00:03:14.544]their own individual devices,
[00:03:16.246]they do have a series of opportunities,
[00:03:20.300]whether it is on parents devices
[00:03:24.170]or on
[00:03:26.539]for example, at the library
[00:03:28.258]or wherever they may be,
[00:03:29.576]that they have access to the internet.
[00:03:31.611]Because we have so many devices
[00:03:34.163]around us,
[00:03:35.181]that means that they do have access,
[00:03:37.617]and pretending that they don't
[00:03:39.285]and pretending
[00:03:39.986]they will not interact with
[00:03:41.337]it is really not healthy.
[00:03:43.039]So again, the main message here is not
[00:03:46.309]that you have to use
[00:03:48.228]AI in your classroom,
[00:03:49.229]with kids.
[00:03:49.729]That might be a good idea in some cases,
[00:03:51.464]and a really bad one in others.
[00:03:53.416]But the idea is that you have to
[00:03:56.002]teach kids about AI,
[00:03:57.887]and that's a topic
[00:03:58.638]we call AI literacy often,
[00:04:00.523]although some people don't love that
[00:04:03.226]putting it
[00:04:03.826]under the umbrella of literacy.
[00:04:05.211]But the idea is
[00:04:06.863]that kids need to know what is AI,
[00:04:09.899]how does it work?
[00:04:11.217]As far as we can
[00:04:12.385]know, and obviously
[00:04:13.703]developmentally appropriate.
[00:04:15.505]And then what are really
[00:04:17.240]the ethical concerns
[00:04:18.741]that are sitting there,
[00:04:20.326]how to think about it,
[00:04:21.594]how to use it wisely,
[00:04:22.729]and what are some mistakes
[00:04:23.813]they can avoid.
[00:04:24.981]This is always helpful.
[00:04:26.516]This is the same kind of discussions
[00:04:28.251]we want to have about social media.
[00:04:30.203]We don't necessarily encourage kids
[00:04:31.938]to be on social media,
[00:04:33.022]but we know that they are.
[00:04:34.724]And so as long as they are,
[00:04:36.359]we do need to guide them about
[00:04:39.145]thinking about social media.
[00:04:40.913]This is the same thing,
[00:04:42.465]and I'll see you next time
[00:04:43.633]on AI in the Classroom.

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