Artificial Intelligence

AI, or artificial intelligence, is a computer performing “intelligent” tasks such as recognizing things, understanding them, and making decisions (predictions) about them. 

AI uses datasets & learning algorithms to make predictions.

Generative AI is artificial intelligence that can generate media like text, images, audio, video, code, or simulations. The text or media generated is also considered predictions, based on the context of a human prompt. 

1. It’s not going away. 

2. There are clear risks and benefits to both students and teachers. 

3. It can potentially disrupt how society functions and how different industries (like education) work. 

4. It’s changing & developing at a rapid pace.

Books - Race After Technology by Dr. Ruha Benjamin, The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman, The AI Classroom by Dan Fitzpatrick, Co Intelligence: Living and Working with Ai by Ethan Mollick

Podcasts - ISTE Unleashed "Taking Little Steps to help Scale Digital Citizenship in the Age of Ai", "How do we teach students to think in the age of Ai", "Moving from lesson planning to designing learning experiences: How ChatGPT can help"

Newsletters - The Rundown, Center for AI Safety, 

Websites - ai4k12.org, AI 101 for Teachers from code.org, AIedu 

1. School AI - Has teacher facing “coteacher” and student chatbot “spaces”. 

2. Adobe Firefly - Image Generation trained by Adobe Stock image dataset. 

3. AI Snapshots - Intended to be integrated into various subject areas, these discussion prompts promote critical thinking and empathy around topics that AI Impacts. 

4. Google Gemini - If you would like to be added to a pilot group of educators exploring the ways Gemini (similar to ChatGPT) can support teaching and learning, please reach out to matthew.odonnell@icsd.k12.ny.us.