Students working with AI rather than AI working for students

/ Michelle Lampinen

Please note: These live learning blogs are posted on the fly, and I am more concerned with capturing information rather than perfecting my writing/proofreading skills. So yes, there might be mistakes, and no, it’s not the next great American novel. We’ll live!Presenter: Betzabé Orenos

TriConference 2024, Mexico City, Mexico

We started with a wooclap diagnostic test to see if we could tell the difference between AI and just regular tech. Examples:

Artificial Intelligence

  • Phone assistants (Alexa, Siri)
  • Self-driving car
  • Spam email filter

Just Regular Tech

  • Calculator
  • Alarm clock
  • Bluetooth speaker

Five Big Ideas of AI

  • Perception – computers perceive the world using sensors
  • Representation and Reasoning – Agents maintain representations of the world and use them for reasoning (processes information and makes sense out of it)
  • Learning – Computers can learn from data (AI works by training it)
  • Natural Interaction – Intelligent agents require many kinds of knowledge to interact naturally with humans (natural language processing)
  • Societal Impact – AI can impact society in both positive and negative ways

Types of AI

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machine learning
  • Deep learning
  • Generative AI
  • Large language models

One of the challenges with AI is people getting AI literate.

Co-creation – instead of saying “I did this with AI,” how about saying, “I co-created this”?

Even with AI, teachers will not be replaceable. How about the empathy, the creativity, the humor, and the love? Machines will never be able to do that. And that’s why our students need us to mentor them in the use of AI.

Ethical Use of AI – there are rules and we should model this to students. When our students notice us modeling proper use of AI, they’ll probably feel mentored by us.

Always disclose when you use AI – the kids are gonna know when you use AI, so may as well tell them.

We need AI literacy for our teachers. Teachers and admin have to understand AI.

We need policies in our schools! You have to be clear how the tools are going to be used. Guidelines must be clear and communicated to community. Also, you need a set of consequences for misuse of AI.

Day of AI – in April. Goals: promoting awareness of AI and ethics/responsible use/best practices. Make your celebration of Day of AI student led.

Some tools are for people 18 years or older. Sent home a consent form letting them know that they are using the tools. This gives parents to opt them out. Also, teachers need to evaluate the tools before having students use them. The tools need to be safe for students to use.

Tools

  • 11 labs to generate audio
  • Poe.com – you can find AI models – you can train it to do the tasks that you want it to do
  • Magic School AI
  • teachai.org – has a complete toolkit for writing policy (collab between ISTE, Microsoft, MIT, etc.)
  • dayofai.org – tons of resources for you (in English and Spanish)
  • wooclap – short diagnostic quizzes
  • Suno – song generator. why not use it to present a concept to students? Or use it for a wrap up? Or have the kids use it to create their own songs
  • resources from the presentation: https://sites.google.com/decrolyamericano.edu.gt/tricon24genai/home

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