Are you a teacher curious about how to engage your students meaningfully and responsibly with generative artificial intelligence? AI models like ChatGPT are touted to enhance student learning. However, a growing number of teachers understand that there are concerns with AI student use emerging from biases in AI training data, privacy, and environmental impacts. I-Think, an education charity developed at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, has engaged over 3,000 students in their I-Think AI Challenge program. By engaging students in this program, I-Think has gleaned some insights into the AI literacy and fluency that teachers and students need so that AI use is ethical and human-centered. In this webinar we will discuss what AI literacy and fluency are, and how teachers could develop these skills for themselves and their students. Don’t miss out on this important and timely discussion.

Heidi Siwak

Heidi is an experienced Ontario educator and now Teacher Coach at I-Think, an education charity originating at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, which is focused on helping children and youth become optimistic and confident problem solvers. She leads I-Think’s work in Artificial Intelligence and is the architect of I-Think’s Artificial Intelligence Challenge Kit for students in Grade 6-12, where students engage in deep critical thinking about AI and use an empathy-based problem-solving process to imagine how AI might enhance the lives and possibilities of all students. Heidi believes that student and teacher voices need to be front and center as AI tools are developed for education. She regularly shares the learning of I-Think regarding what students want from AI (and the people who make it) from the over 3,000 students who have participated to date in the AI Challenge. Heidi is passionately committed to helping students, teachers, and school leaders develop essential skills to explore the main issues facing society and education systems in the development and application of AI. She is committed to responsible and ethical AI in education and exercising leadership skills to empower students and educators to navigate the multidisciplinary and practical reality of responsible AI and human rights.