Innovation arcade: Exploration lab 
Purpose: Over the last year and a half, many have focused on making certain educators understand how AI works, the ramifications of its use in the classroom, and how to leverage it for themselves as they navigate how to use certain tools (such as ChatGPT, Bard, DallE, and others) with students. What remains is that students do not necessarily know how AI works when leveraging these tools in their day-to-day lives which can impact their safety and privacy, but also has ramifications in the future - if we forget the HUMAN element in the use of the AI. The intention of this presentation to provide an overview of a collection of free instructional resources (lessons, activities, etc.) to support student understanding of AI. These resources will include supports and content for all grade levels and content areas - including lessons and resources from: MIT (Day of AI), AI4All, AIedu, and ISTE (as well as others we pick up along the way).
Objectives:
- Learners will be able to identify why it is not only important but imperative that our students understand not only how AI works, but the ethical ramifications of its use - AI Literacy
- Learners will be able to identify at least on resource, tool, or activity which they can utilize to help support learning and understanding of AI in their classroom.
Note - The goal of this presentation is NOT to highlight the next 'cool tool' for teachers or students to try, but it is to highlight resources to help support student understanding and learning around AI - from how it works, to navigating bias, to the computer science connections and how it can be programmed. The goal is to focus on curricular supports - not AI tools, themselves.
- AI edu Snapshot - Activity from one of the resources we're highlighting (3-5 minutes) - Peer-to-Peer & Device-Based
- Importance of Student Understanding of AI and the Human Element - AI Literacy (10 minutes)
- Tools & Resources:
--AIedu: AI Toolkit, AI Snapshots, etc. (10 minutes) - Device-Based
--AI4All: Bytes & How it Works (15 minutes) - Device Based
--MIT: Day of AI Curriculum & Middle School Curriculum (15 minutes) - Device Based
-- ISTE Exploration for Educators Guides (10 Minutes) - Device Based
- Closing (5 Minutes) - Will include a reflection/share out
**Note - for each of the resources, we intend to both overview the location and materials and what it contains AND do a hands-on device-based activities from that curriculum when appropriate.
https://www2.ed.gov/documents/ai-report/ai-report.pdf (Recommendation #1 - Emphasize Humans in the Loop)
https://www.iste.org/areas-of-focus/AI-in-education
https://ai-4-all.org/about/results/
https://www.aiedu.org/about
https://www.dayofai.org/program
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