Participate and share: Interactive session 
Purpose: Provide educators with resources including lessons, and best practices that can be used to provide foundational skills and dispositions needed to address the ethical dilemmas amplified by the proliferation of generative AI tools.
Participants will learn about recent research findings on the impacts of AI on students and families as well as recent research about the impact on mental health of constant smartphone use on teens.
Participants will learn how to facilitate activities that are designed to explore the impact of AI and technology on their values, society, and well-being.
Participants will identify the connection between digital citizenship principals and emerging generative AI ethical dilemmas..
Participants will demonstrate how to find digital citizenship lessons that is inclusive of new AI tools and ethical dilemmas.
1. Introduction (15 minutes)
-operational definitions of generative AI, digital citizenship, skills and dispositions
-research review: recent findings on AI use among students, habits of teen cell phone use, and teens desire for digital balance.
- Participants will engage in a brief open ended Menti sharing their concerns and benefits of generative AI.
2. Pair digital citizenship topics to generative AI ethical dilemmas (15 minutes)
- How do altered images and deepfakes impact media literacy skills and cyberbullying?
- How does generative chat and images impact the ethics of creators and biased/quality of information generated?
- How do human-like chatbots impact our online communication, relationship skills and media balance?
For each of the above, participants will be asked to work groups of 2-3 to discuss the connection between the AI tools and the digital citizenship topic. Participants will share their findings via physical post-its on the walls. Facilitators will record and share the post-its after the session on the session Wakelet.
4.For each of the above topics, presenters will provide a set of resources that provide foundational digital citizenship lessons as well as new AI focused lessons. We’ll demonstrate a “where do you stand” digital dilemma activity designed to show various perspectives and contexts. (15 minutes)
- A scenario is posted and participants place themselves in the room based on whether they agree or disagree with the statement.
-Participants are invited to share their reasoning and consider the perspectives and opinions of others.
- Participants are asked to reconsider their position based on what they heard and new contextual information.
6. Conclusion and Q&A (5 minutes)
-all participants will walk away with a session Wakelet that includes all lessons and session materials.
Parents and students are optimistic about AI, but parents have a lot to learn to catch up to their kids – and want rules and ratings to help them. https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/featured-content/files/common-sense-ai-polling-memo-may-10-2023-final.pdf
Constant Companion: A Week in the Life of a Young Person’s Smartphone Use (Radesky 2023)
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/research/report/2023-cs-smartphone-research-report_final-for-web.pdf
Teaching Digital Citizens in Today’s World (Weinstein et al, 2021) https://www.commonsense.org/system/files/pdf/2021-08/common-sense-education-digital-citizenship-research-backgrounder.pdf
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