TeachAI is an educational resource designed to help education leaders and their communities realize the potential benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) while addressing the potential risks. While the site is primarily aimed at K-12 educators, it integrates resources specific to higher education, such as Strategies for Teaching Well When Students Have Access to Artificial Intelligence (AI) Generation Tools from George Mason University. The site features a toolkit which aims to:
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Create a vision statement or set of principles and beliefs.
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Integrate AI guidance into academic integrity, privacy, and responsible use policies.
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Inform classroom practice, school policies, and professional development.
The toolkit addresses seven principles for using AI in education:
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Purpose: Use AI to help all students achieve educational goals.
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Compliance: Reaffirm adherence to existing policies.
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Knowledge: Promote AI literacy.
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Balance: Realize the benefits of AI and address the risks.
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Integrity: Advance academic integrity.
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Agency: Maintain human decision-making when using AI.
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Evaluation: Regularly assess the impacts of AI.
With the goals of emphasizing the following:
- Guidance Leads to Transformation: Guidance and policies coupled with organizational learning can set the stage for improvement and transformation across the system.
- Don’t Ban AI, #TeachAI: The AI Guidance for Schools Toolkit aids education systems in a thoughtful transition to guiding the safe, effective, and responsible use of AI.
- Realize the Benefits and Address the Risks: Rather than just acknowledge the opportunities and risks of AI in education, the toolkit provides suggestions for mitigating risks so potential benefits can also be realized.
The Steering Committee that sets the vision and strategy for TeachAI is staffed and operated by Code.org, in collaboration with the Educational Testing Service, the International Society for Technology in Education, Khan Academy, and the World Economic Forum. While the Advisory Committee consists of individual, organizational partners, and supporters from academia, corporations, as well as state and governmental agencies from around the globe.
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