Language: English (mozilla)
Teachers of all subjects, students of all ages, come to this session on a collection of resources for introducing Trustworthy AI literacy into any classroom!
If we want the current generation to grow up having the societal discussions to advocate for a Trustworthy AI future, our educators will have to distill and share their best practices.
Educators have found that establishing “computational thinking” literacy as early as possible leads to much easier understanding of coding itself later in life. Coding education tools such as Scratch, MakeCode and others have enabled k-12 educators without computer science backgrounds to introduce coding into their classrooms.
AI education tools have started to appear, along with AI education frameworks that describe the thinking skills that need to be nurtured. The Mozilla Trustworthy AI Education Toolkit working group has assembled a guide for non-computer science educators to introduce AI education into their classrooms. This toolkit consists of 4 main parts: Components of AI, Principles of Trustworthy AI, Educational Activity Examples and Assessment. The parts of this toolkit were collected from materials and best practices created by AI researchers and AI education organizations from around the world.
We not only want to share this toolkit, we want your input! If you’re new to AI, what catches your interest, and what’s preventing you from getting started in your classroom or life? If you are learning about AI, what hooked you? What do you see shaping youth’s future around AI?
As AI educators, we believe that general AI literacy for everyone is a crucial step towards Trustworthy AI because in order to advocate for trustworthy AI, people need to understand AI.
Our goal from this session is for participants to gain perspective on the importance of AI education integration into classrooms. We would consider our session a success if:
1)Educators use these AI resources into their educational settings
2)Educators & students follow up with the gaps they find in these resources
3)Educators & students continue to add tools to our collection based on feedback
Real life is where AI meets society and the disruption it is causing is tackled head-on. If AI is only a tool for computer scientists to implement for power and money, it will only serve to reinforce the interests of power and money. If people understand AI and use it in their lives, they will demand the societal changes necessary to implement it Fairly, Accountably, Transparently and Ethically.
Building these AI ethic guides directly for educators and students, we hope to nourish an ethical understanding of AI at an early age. By attending our session and learning about the easy to use AI tools available, students not in STEM will be exposed to tools and resources that they normally are not. Equipped with this knowledge students can have the freedom of choice (of how AI affects their lives), and broaden their horizons for career paths in the future.
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session? What if 30 participants attend? What if there are 3?:The nature of our session will allow us to be able to scale to any number of participants. The most important aspect of our sessions is to inform educators & students about the trustworthy AI tools & activities available to them. This message is not dependent on the number of people present, and can be conveyed to any number of attendees at our session.
What happens after MozFest? We're hoping that many efforts and discussions will continue after MozFest. Share any ideas you already have for how to continue the work from your session.:We want our Trustworthy AI Toolkit to be collaborative and modular. We hope that educators/students will give us feedback on the activities/resources they used from the toolkit, and that collaborators will continue to add resources; making it a carefully curated space for educators and students alike to learn about Trustworthy AI.
What language would you like to host your session in?:English