Today I had the privilege of attending a professional development workshop on AI in the classroom. Following our discussion of AI a few weeks ago, which I discussed in my third reflection, this workshop was particularly interesting. We discussed privacy concerns, environmental concerns, uses, and how to use in schools.
Something that I learned in this workshop that was very interesting to me is that media and AI literacy will become part of some standardized testing outside of Canada by 2029. The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international assessment for 15-year-old students, which have historically measured math, science, and reading. In my opinion, expanding these examinations to include media and AI literacy is very important. I can only imagine the developments to technology by 2029, and I’m sure these kinds of assessments will become more common.
Another part of this workshop that I enjoyed was them sharing the Focused Education Artificial Intelligence Student Lessons. This is a useful resource sorted by grade level, which is particularly helpful as the examples they showed were primarily catered towards elementary students. They reported these lessons going over very well in their experience and I think it would be interesting to gather information on how these resources work in a secondary school setting. Below is an image captured from the Focused Education Lessons for secondary students, a lesson plan that I can imagine would be very useful for me as a teacher as AI continues to grow.
