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AI Literacy Framework

"I’ve created the AI Literacy Framework by taking the UNESCO Digital Literacy Global Framework and mapping AI skills onto it."

AI: A Grifter's Paradise

Partly it’s because the sort of educational technology I’ve always been excited by is that which creates opportunities for people to undertake education in different ways. That applies to AI to an extent, but it is also often about removing people from the process, and that’s not a vision that interests me.

Four things an educational psychologist wants you to know about AI in the classroom

Tools like ChatGPT have introduced challenges in the classroom for both teachers and students, but there are opportunities, too, according to UW–Madison’s David Williamson Shaffer, a professor in the School of Education who studies the intersection of technology and teaching.

The Allure and Risks of New Edtech

But, in our eagerness to embrace the latest innovations, are we approaching them with a critical eye? As educators, we must carefully consider not only what we could do with new technologies, but also whether we should use them at all.

Human brain’s ‘temporal scaffolding’ inspires new AI approaches

Applying a recent hypothesis about how the brain operates during sleep could improve the lifelong learning abilities of artificial intelligence.

Sneak Preview: A Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights for Education

My blueprint for educators and students builds on a document that the Biden administration’s Office of Science and Technology Policy released in 2022: “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights.”

AI Policies in the Classroom (AI x Education)

Explore how classrooms are implementing AI policies to effectively harness the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in education.

Generative AI for Teaching and Learning @ KPU

Embracing generative AI in the classroom

Waterloo professor introduces AI in his course and equips students with skills to respond to big problems in tech

Faculty members discuss AI’s possible impacts at UCR

Faculty members who have used AI consider how it may help – and hurt – classroom instruction

Western appoints Mark Daley as first-ever chief AI officer

The newly created role is the first of its kind at a Canadian university