I focused on steps, four and five. For step four, teaching ethical use. I think it's very important at this point, especially with how easy it is becoming to find content online and just reuse it. Many students grow up without even considering the images or content posted online is someone else's creation, and that using it is not necessarily allowed.
The more AI is integrated into many of the tools that we use daily the easier this is going to be. Having conversations about what it means to plagiarize and what it means to cite information so you can give credit to the proper creators is important and they are skills that we need to consistently discuss and teach to our kids.
For step five, online safety is a topic that has to be consistently approached in classrooms so students realize how important it might be to not share personal things online. As a district, we need to do a better job of modeling what password security looks like. When it comes to social media use, I am not naïve enough to believe that we are going to stop kids from using products that are not available to them due to the age restrictions placed on them. Since they have been introduced into society, people have lied about ages to get access to things that others have access to. This is no different than when people from my generation used to lie about their age through fake IDs and things like that to access alcoholic bars. I believe this is unavoidable in the best way for us to discuss this is to have discussions around healthy habits and the safe use of these tools.
This may seem like a simplistic view of how these can be integrated into our current teaching methodologies, but if we were to take some of the standards and incorporate them into our units of study, then it may make the lift a little less heavy. Depending on what you're asking students to create for an output method, to show their understanding of a topic or their demonstration of learning, we may be able to take some of these standards, and incorporate them into our rubric. We may use to evaluate student final product.
The more AI is integrated into many of the tools that we use daily the easier this is going to be. Having conversations about what it means to plagiarize and what it means to cite information so you can give credit to the proper creators is important and they are skills that we need to consistently discuss and teach to our kids.
For step five, online safety is a topic that has to be consistently approached in classrooms so students realize how important it might be to not share personal things online. As a district, we need to do a better job of modeling what password security looks like. When it comes to social media use, I am not naïve enough to believe that we are going to stop kids from using products that are not available to them due to the age restrictions placed on them. Since they have been introduced into society, people have lied about ages to get access to things that others have access to. This is no different than when people from my generation used to lie about their age through fake IDs and things like that to access alcoholic bars. I believe this is unavoidable in the best way for us to discuss this is to have discussions around healthy habits and the safe use of these tools.
This may seem like a simplistic view of how these can be integrated into our current teaching methodologies, but if we were to take some of the standards and incorporate them into our units of study, then it may make the lift a little less heavy. Depending on what you're asking students to create for an output method, to show their understanding of a topic or their demonstration of learning, we may be able to take some of these standards, and incorporate them into our rubric. We may use to evaluate student final product.