Transforming Learning
Regardless of your WHY, it is in this chapter that you start to see it come to life. Whether you are driven by student AI Literacy, efficiency and workflows, or fully transformed classrooms and learning experiences, at this point you start to measure your efficacy.
For our 10,000 student district, this chapter started after around 14 months of work. After building Staff Literacy through Exposure, we were able to have targeted conversations with our key stakeholders (curriculum leads, experienced teachers, administrators) and create a plan to intentionally embed AI literacy into our existing curriculum framework.
Digital Citizenship as the Umbrella
Anchor student tech literacy in Digital Citizenship. This is the umbrella, the foundation of digital safety and excellence that will benefit them the rest of their lives.
AI Literacy - The Use and Evaluate framework from Chapter 2 works just as well for students as for staff! You just need more scaffolding. Here is the first draft of our slides we used for students.
Media Literacy - Students need the skills to critically evaluate anything they read or receive, whether that come from social media or a chatbot. We have seen great evidence of lessons, units, and full courses to teach this skill.
Digital Wellness - We have all seen the statistics of student mental health and well-being being negatively impacted by social media use and online interactions. We have decided to invest in both formal lessons and "in the cracks" class culture where teachers facilitate student digital wellbeing. This is a new initiative for us, materials are forthcoming.
As with all things in education: teachers must be invested in and master these concepts before they can teach them to students. ISTE is one of the strongest EdTech organizations around, and they are firmly committed to building DigCit for all, and we recommend their resources for developing staff mastery.
Materials for building an AI Literate Classroom
How does Digital Citizenship fit into the larger model of student success? Here's our initial pitch to district leadership.
ChatBots for learning! article
For Media Literacy lessons, Common Sense Education is great!
Other districts have gotten great resources from Humane Tech, for human-centered AI and media use.
Day of AI has some great lessons to share with students, and were building them even before ChatGPT showed up.