While US schools debate what to teach students about AI's promise and potential peril, universities, tech companies, and nonprofits offer ready-made curriculums
While schools debate what to teach students about powerful new A.I. tools, tech giants, universities and nonprofits are intervening with free lessons. Mastodon: @BenPatrickWill@mastodon … . Tweets: @medialab , @kevinokeefe , @nytimes , @charleswlogan , @nytimestech , @cynthiabreazeal , @danielladipaola , @natashanyt , @mitopenlearning , @datasociety , and @codeorg Mastodon: Ben Williamson / @BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social : Just another example of the pedagogic industry forming around AI now: — “While schools debate what to teach students about powerful new A.I. tools, tech giants, universities and nonprofits are intervening with free lessons.” … Tweets: @medialab : Prof. @cynthiabreazeal, head of @mitPRG and @mitRAISE, talks to @natashanyt about the #DayOfAI curriculum. “We want students to be informed, responsible users and informed, responsible designers of these technologies,” she says. https://www.nytimes.com/... Kevin O'Keefe / @kevinokeefe : Amazon exec has message for 9th/10th graders in Boston. There will be millions of new jobs in AI. “We need to create the talent for the next generation, so we are educating about A.I. at the earliest, grass-roots level.” - @NYTimes' @natashanyt https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimes : School districts across the U.S. are wrestling with how to prepare students to navigate AI-powered tools. Tech giants, universities and nonprofits are intervening with free “AI literacy” lessons. https://www.nytimes.com/... Charles Logan / @charleswlogan : I think we should listen to @JMHiggs: “'If we are engaging students in learning about these new systems, we really have to think about the context surrounding these new systems...that piece is still missing.'” https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimestech : How should public schools prepare students to navigate a world in which the ascendancy of AI-powered tools — and the powerful entities that unleash them — seems unstoppable? https://www.nytimes.com/... Cynthia Breazeal / @cynthiabreazeal : “We need to create the talent for the next generation,” Mr. Prasad, the head scientist for Alexa, told the class. “So we are educating about A.I. at the earliest, grass-roots level.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Daniella DiPaola / @danielladipaola : This #DayofAI, we brought middle schoolers to @EMKInstitute to discuss the future of AI legislation. The students at @Warren_Prescott brought their expertise on AI and nuanced perspectives to the table. @nytimes wrote about it! https://twitter.com/... Natasha Singer / @natashanyt : What's happening with A.I. in schools? To cut through some of the recent hype and panic, I sat in on an Amazon-led workshop @DearbornSTEM @BostonSchools where students were programming Alexa. https://www.nytimes.com/... @mitopenlearning : The #DayofAI workshops organized by @MitRaise underscored a question that has vexed schools across the nation this year: How should we prepare students to navigate a world in which AI-powered tools seem all but inevitable? https://www.nytimes.com/... @datasociety : Schools are taking varied approaches to teaching students about AI. As D&S alum @natashanyt shows, the differences mirror larger debates about the “promise and potential peril” of these tools. https://www.nytimes.com/... @codeorg : How should schools prepare students to navigate a world in which, according to some prominent A.I. developers, the ascendancy of A.I.-powered tools seems all but inevitable? https://www.nytimes.com/...