431: Highly Recommended: This Vehicle for AI in ELA Conversations
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Betsy Potash discusses the implications of AI in education and recommends a resource for understanding student perspectives on AI.
So I've been working on the materials for Camp Creative: Your Back-to-School Kickoff Kit, this year's iteration of the free summer PD I run every year. (By the way, you can get all the details and sign up right here for this fun, free, async PD). And it seems to me that one of the most vital conversations this year for us all to be having is what exactly it means to use AI at school - the risks and dangers, the helpful aspects in terms of accommodation, the temptation, the citation process, all of it. I've been in and out of the rabbit hole on AI for months and years now, following along with policies, trends, Ted Talks, teacher frustrations, and most recently, the growing movement away from letting AI increase its foothold in our classrooms (a movement I'm very glad to see, as it matches up with my own take). My rabbit hole life has led me to one particular resource for you that I'd like to highly recommend as a conversation starter this week, and that's the student finalist gallery from The New York Times' Growing up with AI Multimedia Contest . This contest plays a central role in the AI Conversations & Research Stations I've created for Camp Creative, and whether you join us…
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