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Human Hearts, Digital Minds: AI in Action

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Poster Theme: AI & Emerging Tech in Education
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Session description

What happens when students stop consuming AI and start governing it? This session presents a transformative model where learners become content creators, policy designers, and digital activists. Attendees will explore how AI ethics evolve into a student-led campaign with a mascot ambassador, QR content, and a public visual code.

Outline

Detailed Presentation Outline (Total Time: 90 Minutes)
1. Welcome & Framing the Challenge – AI with Heart (10 min)

Content:

Introduction to the project, purpose, and alignment with SDGs, ISTE Standards, and Semper Altius profile components.

Explore why teaching AI literacy, ethics, and digital citizenship matters.

Engagement:

Quick audience poll on current classroom challenges with misinformation or AI.

Icebreaker discussion: “What’s the most surprising piece of online misinformation you’ve seen?”

Process:

Tactics: Live poll (Mentimeter/Kahoot), peer-to-peer sharing in pairs.

2. Critical Thinking in the Digital World – What’s Real? What’s Fake? (20 min)

Content:

Strategies to teach students to detect fake news, deepfakes, and algorithmic bias.

Classroom activities: fake news detection games, manipulated image analysis, guided debates.

Engagement:

Activity 1: “Real or Fake?” – Participants analyze sample posts and vote in real-time.

Activity 2: Group analysis of a deepfake video and short discussion on how biases appear in AI.

Process:

Tactics: Small-group collaboration, device-based activity, whole-group discussion.

3. Co-Creating an AI Ethics Code – Empowering Digital Citizens (20 min)

Content:

How to guide students in creating an ethics framework for technology use.

Examples of student-created “AI Ambassadors” and digital responsibility manifestos.

Engagement:

Activity: In groups, participants draft a short “AI Use Guideline” and design a character representing ethical AI behavior.

Share and compare ideas with other groups.

Process:

Tactics: Collaborative group work, peer feedback rounds, gallery walk of group ideas.

4. Becoming Responsible Creators – From Learners to Leaders (20 min)

Content:

Explore how students turn learning into action: podcasts, animations, comics, videos, and school-wide campaigns.

Show real examples and discuss project design, assessment, and student leadership opportunities.

Engagement:

Activity: Participants choose a project type (e.g., podcast or campaign) and sketch a mini-plan for their classroom.

Peer-to-peer sharing of ideas with constructive feedback.

Process:

Tactics: Team planning, brainstorming, guided peer exchange.

5. Reflection, Planning & Takeaways (15 min)

Content:

Recap key ideas: critical thinking, ethics, creative communication.

Showcase how these connect to ISTE Standards and transformational learning principles.

Engagement:

Activity: Reflection journal – Participants write how they will adapt one idea to their context.

Open Q&A and sharing final insights.

Process:

Tactics: Individual reflection, group sharing, Q&A discussion.

Engagement Strategies Throughout the Session

Peer-to-peer interaction: Regular group discussions, idea exchanges, and feedback rounds.

Device-based activities: Quizzes, polls, deepfake analyses, and collaborative digital tools (Padlet, Canva, Jamboard).

Games/contests: “Real or Fake” challenge and ethics card dilemmas.

Hands-on creation: Drafting guidelines, designing avatars, and planning digital campaigns.

Reflection moments: Individual journaling and collective debriefs to connect learning to classroom practice.

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Outcomes

After this session, participants will be able to design and implement student-centered projects that integrate AI literacy, ethical decision-making, and digital citizenship into the curriculum. They will learn strategies to help students critically evaluate misinformation, co-create responsible technology guidelines, and produce creative digital campaigns that promote ethical AI use in real-world contexts.

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Supporting research

References

UNESCO. (2023). Guidance for generative AI in education and research. UNESCO. https://unesdoc.unesco.org

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). (2021). AI and the future of skills: Capabilities and assessments. OECD Publishing. https://www.oecd.org

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). (2022). AI in education: Preparing learners for the future. ISTE. https://www.iste.org

Benjamin, R. (2019). Race after technology: Abolitionist tools for the new Jim Code. Polity Press.

Jenkins, H. (2009). Confronting the challenges of participatory culture: Media education for the 21st century. MIT Press.

🌐 Online Resources

Common Sense Education. (n.d.). Digital citizenship curriculum. Common Sense Media. https://www.commonsense.org/education

AI4K12 Initiative. (n.d.). AI literacy guidelines for K–12. https://ai4k12.org

World Economic Forum. (n.d.). AI ethics and governance resources. https://www.weforum.org

Partnership for 21st Century Learning (P21). (n.d.). Framework for 21st century skills. Battelle for Kids. http://www.battelleforkids.org/networks/p21

Algorithmic Justice League. (n.d.). Fighting bias in AI. https://www.ajl.org

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Presenters

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Session specifications

Topic:

Digital Citizenship

Grade level:

6-12

Audience:

School Level Leadership, Teacher

Attendee devices:

Devices required

Attendee device specification:

Smartphone: Android
Tablet: Android

Subject area:

Interdisciplinary (STEM/STEAM), Technology Education

ISTE Standards:

For Students: Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Creative Communicator

Transformational Learning Principles:

Elevate Reflection, Prioritize Authentic Experiences

Additional detail:

Student presentation