Student AI Literacy Lesson

The presentation had so much depth about AI and she actually went on to teaching students about the danger of AI usage, which I felt was something that aren’t being made aware by young students. AI is just a tool and how one uses it matters. She also discussed the token system of how AI generates it’s answer from the prompt, using relevant vocabulary from the words used in prompt, which was new for me to understand and I thought that made sense. It is randomly generated, so each time you ask and each time you ask in different words, the answer will be different. Knowing this can allow students to now gear towards asking good questions and intentional questions, which should impact their literacy skills overall. I also liked the various categories of digital security issues that AI platforms present. Hallucination of making students trust a wrong information, biased opinion that is not properly filtered or deep fake of generating real-looking image can severely impact the student belief and forming of values. Even though this presentation was about caution for AI, it concluded with discussing how to teach students to use it properly and to prompt better ways to use AI and the data centres. The presentation on FOCUSED website is so resource and I have them downloaded for future use!

NFB – More than just great Canadian Films!

I have never heard of NFB as a teaching tool before, so this webinar was very resourceful and educational! I now remember a few times that my elementary or secondary teachers may have used it, but it was very brief usually and sometimes a lot more focused on the assignment rather than to sit and watch the film and what it has to offer. I particularly was sparked by the new resource format and soon to be released film. It was explained that it was a teaching resource by a current teacher in Toronto based on the film and the teaching points were so engaging for social emotional learning and it showed some character of the teacher, being a basketball coach. Although that particular film may not work the best with the elementary students, other films with particularly diverse Indigenous films, will definitely broaden the teaching experience. Indigenous films are amazing resource for integration of Indigenous knowledge and curriculum, because following the last point of FPPL, some knowledge are sacred and not mine to share. Yet I can be confident in knowing what I can explore and share with students in a classroom through film, because most were produced by Indigenous people and shared by them, so I feel empowered to teach more of the Indigenous stories.