Presenters
Director of Academic Technology and Librarian, LS
ReAnna Laney Gailes is the Director of Academic Technology and Librarian for the Lower School at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. Previously, she served as the founding Director of the Learning Commons at Mark Day School in San Rafael, California. She loves merging technology and 21st-century library skills to create a collaborative research space that can be utilized and appreciated by all.
Michelle is a Nationally STEM certified STEAM educator and curriculum coordinator at Hudson Montessori. She is passionate about providing students with hands-on interdisciplinary, and integrated STEM/ STEAM learning experiences. One of her works focuses on introducing young students to Computational thinking Strategies using unplugged activities. Her recent focus is teaching AI to elementary students. She also She completed the ISTE-GM Artificial Intelligence Explorations in K-12 School Environments program course.
Session description
This session is a deep dive into crucial needs for AI literacy in today's educational and digital landscape. Created by academic technology teachers to guide peers of all grade-levels, this session offers resources and strategies to integrate AI literacy across disciplines, ensuring students are future-ready.
Purpose & objective
The goal of this presentation is to give educators the resources they need to add AI Literacy instruction to their courses, or add new courses around new technology literacy skills. We also will provide suggestions for adding AI literacy to auxiliary constituencies from parents to administrators.
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Outline
10 minutes (lesson) - introduce scope and sequence for AI Literacy instruction for K-12
5 minutes (activity) - Google Teachable Machine
5 minute (demo) from Michelle’s students
5 minutes (resource dump) - Share resources by division (LS, MS, HS)
10 minute (activity) - Think-Pair-Share with a divisional colleague
10 minute (lesson) - Other ways to incorporate these lessons and how to reach other constituencies
10 minute (Q&A) -
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Supporting research
Ethan Mollick - One Useful Thing
Kate Crawfor - Atlas of AI
Meredith Broussard - More than a Glitch
Brian Christensen - The Alignment Problem
Timnit Gebru & Emily Bender - On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots
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