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aiEDU brings AI Literacy, AI Readiness agenda to Congress
CEO Alex Kotran emphasizes importance — and urgency — of building skills that will help students compete and keep up.
Save the Date: A day for AI Literacy
aiEDU is joining other like-minded organizations to support a national AI Literacy Day. This effort will engage students, teachers and community members to learn more about how AI is shaping our world.
Cultivating Critical Thinking: Guiding AI Use in Today's Classroom
Cultivating critical thinking is a vital part of AI Readiness. In aiEDU’s latest one pager, we offer strategies for ensuring that critical thinking is a core component for teachers, even as their classrooms adjust to a world with AI.
Building AI Readiness with AI fundamentals in Your Classroom
aiEDU is hosting a series of professional learning sessions designed to support teachers in learning AI fundamentals and building AI Readiness in their classrooms and schools. The sessions are designed to meet educators where they are.
‘Making the Grade with AI’ — best practices for how to use AI with grading
There are best practices for how to use AI when it comes to grading. aiEDU’s quick guide — Making the Grade with AI — offers some best practices for teachers.
Shaping AI education, building AI Literacy with the aiEDU Trailblazers Fellowship
aiEDU is recruiting its second cohort of Trailblazers, a unique fellowship that gives K12 teachers the opportunity to prepare students an AI-driven future. Applications are due Oct. 11 by 11:59 PST. The fellowship a unique opportunity for K12 teachers to learn more about AI, how to incorporate AI Literacy and AI Readiness into their classrooms, and to build a network with other education leaders and drive real impact.
aiEDU snapshots — building AI Literacy en español
aiEDU's AI Spanshots are now available in Spanish — thanks to a collaboration with Miami EDTech. The snapshots will support multilingual students and classes in exploring AI concepts. Snapshots are bite-sized, five-minute lessons are designed to spark curiosity and critical thinking about AI's role in our daily lives.
aiEDU builds AI Literacy and AI Readiness with educators in Minnesota, North Dakota
aiEDU: The AI Education Project and the TIES Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM recently hosted a pair of AI Summits in Bemidji Minnesota, and New Town, North Dakota — bringing together passionate educators for focused training and conversation on building AI Literacy and AI Readiness in their school districts.
Read: Full opening statement of aiEDU CEO Alex Kotran to Senate HELP subcommittee on Employment and Workforce Safety
Read aiEDU CEO Alex Kotran's full testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Pension and Labor (HELP) subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety.
aiEDU brings AI Literacy, AI Readiness agenda to Congress
aiEDU CEO Alex Kotran emphasized theimportance — and urgency — of building skills that will help students compete and keep up, while testifying to a Senate subcommittee. Kotran said that cultivating AI Literacy for America’s students — and building AI Readiness for students, schools, and school systems is a matter of urgency — is critical if the US is going to compete and keep up.
Building AI Readiness Where You Are
aiEDU’s fall series of virtual professional learning sessions gives educators across the U.S. the opportunity to build AI skills they can bring the classroom, with a new lineup of virtual sessions designed to empower K12 educators.
Google.org supports aiEDU to provide AI education, drive vision for AI readiness
Google.org announced significant funding to aiEDU — which the organization will use to drive forward work in AI education and its vision for AI Readiness.
Guest Blog Author! Ethics and AI with Dr. Graham Culbertson (part 3 of 3)
Dr. Graham Culbertson will be our guide as we explore Ethics and AI in this three part series. In part one he establishes working definitions of ethics and morality so that we have a strong foundation as we begin to think about using these terms in our discussions about AI.
Guest Blog Author! Ethics and AI with Dr. Graham Culbertson (part 2 of 3)
Dr. Graham Culbertson will be our guide as we explore Ethics and AI in this three part series. In part one he establishes working definitions of ethics and morality so that we have a strong foundation as we begin to think about using these terms in our discussions about AI.
Empowering Educators: Highlights from Ohio's AI Summits
Hundreds of Ohio educators attended three sold-out AI Summits, hosted by aiEDU, to learn about AI literacy and its effective implementation in the classroom.
Guest Blog Author! Ethics and AI with Dr. Graham Culbertson (part 1 of 3)
Dr. Graham Culbertson will be our guide as we explore Ethics and AI in this three part series. In part one he establishes working definitions of ethics and morality so that we have a strong foundation as we begin to think about using these terms in our discussions about AI.
AI Summer Reading List
As school winds down for the year and teachers prepare for a much deserved break, I thought it might be prudent to offer a summer reading list for anyone looking to increase their understanding of things related to AI, or perhaps just enjoy some good fiction. No matter what you are looking for, hopefully something on this list will appeal to you.
Miami EdTech and the “First Wave” of AI Literacy
Miami EdTech, an aiEDU partner, leads efforts to increase access to AI literacy for English language learners and underrepresented communities, particularly Spanish speaking students.
Introducing Flex Plans
Flex Plans offer aiEDU’s proven AI literacy resources in a format that is engaging and effective for busy educators and their students.
How to engage students in AI literacy conversations
While most educators do not have official AI policies or AI curriculum yet, they can still begin to engage their students around AI literacy. Here are four strategies to get started.
Educators Eager Yet Uncertain About Embracing Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom
According to a new aiEDU survey, a significant portion of teachers and administrators have yet to explore this emerging technology within their classrooms and are not yet prepared to do so.