Feeling overwhelmed by AI? Curious about how it fits into your classroom? Priten Shah’s AI and the Future of Education is your comprehensive guide, tailored for teachers to explore, understand, and master AI in education.

- Pedagogy Futures

Priten Shah writes to educators about how AI will impact their learning environments. He encourages educators to be the driving force that leads students towards AI literacy and preparation for an AI saturated future..

"If [AI] technologies are integrated and adapted to, instead of fought and avoided, educators and students will be better equipped for the world that awaits us as AI revolutionizes our societies." (Pg 3)

"As students prepare to enter a world where AI is ubiquitous... they will have to be able to analyze the ethical and social implications of various AI technologies." (Pg 5)

"AI cannot remain a topic only covered in computer science classrooms, but must be integrated across our curriculum to ensure students are prepared to apply AI skills and literacy in various fields." (Pg 33)

"No one is certain where AI technology is headed in the next few years, so teachers have to embrace these changes, they are preparing themselves for lifelong learning, both for themselves and their students." (Pg 11)

"... the world we are preparing our students to enter after graduation is not the same world that will exist when they step outside the doors of their schools." (Pg. 32)

"[Schools] will need to allocate funding toward tools, provide and support professional development opportunities, and offer space for collaboration among colleagues. They will need to support experiments and recognize and reward teachers who innovate successfully." (Pg. 212)

"It is certain that teaching will always play a central role in our society, but what and how we teach will never look the same again in the age of AI."

Matt Miller - the guy who brought you "Ditch That Textbook" - has made a couple books on AI (as well as other education-related topics). This is the only one I've read so far.

This is a great book, especially for those who recognize the importance of AI literacy in education but don't know how to start. The emphasis in the book is in the title - AI Literacy in Any Class (Amazon link here, but I'm not affiliated in any way). I marked the whole thing up as there's so many good lines for why AI needs to be taught in every class, at every level. This book emphasizes how this can happen with little bite-sized, in-the-moment educational experiences that anyone could do in any classroom. It even provides useful prompts you could put into AI to help not only teach you what makes good prompts, but to get more out of what you learned in each lesson.

Would I recommend this book to you? Absolutely - I don't know that I agree with the price of the book (I bought it early, and the price was $30), but the content was great.

The only issue I take with the book is that I don't believe enough people will take the initiative to teach these bite sized lessons to make enough impact on student's and their educational journey- there is a checklist of AI-literacy lessons that need to be taught and experiences that need to happen, and impromptu teaching opportunities are great, and they're needed, but they won't be enough. I believe that AI literacy needs to be something that districts need to require at every grade level in appropriate ways for that age group. If it's not explicitly planned to be taught, students will have an incomplete AI literacy education. I would have loved to have seen a final chapter that emphasizes the importance of explicitly taught AI literacy and a suggested plan for AI literacy lessons that should be taught at each grade level (and the important safety concepts to focus on). I also would have liked to have seen a list of the major AI issues educators need to focus on for AI literacy - some of them were present (such as privacy, bias, and hallucinations), but something like my AI Issues Key Points would have been great.

This book, by Karen Hao, was very intriguing... at least, at first. I was fascinated by the initial startup of OpenAI, but the book had, in my opinion, very little to do with AI's impact on education and far more to do with the social/political drama within OpenAI and between Sam Altman and everyone else. I borrowed the book at the recommendation of a coworker and after getting very far in a few weeks and then not hardly picking it back up in a couple months, I returned the book unfinished. In an attempt to finish the book, I borrowed the audiobook and couldn't pay enough attention - this was during a very busy time of the year and I had way too much on my plate, so this says more about me than about the quality of the book itself.

Would I recommend the book? I think the first few chapters were fascinating, but I didn't finish the last few chapters so I couldn't really say, but ultimately it just wasn't nearly as interesting to me and my focus on AI Literacy and AI's impact on Education as I wanted it to be, but that's not a good indicator for whether I'd suggest the book or not (especially since the book isn't aimed at AI literacy or AI Education). My English-teaching colleague thought it a great book, hence why he recommended it to me. If you're into reading and AI, this might be a great book for you.