We had Sandy from Science World in Vancouver come to speak to us about what digital literacy is and how AI is incorporated in that. Digital literacy is the understanding of the software and the hardware. Understanding what is going on and how we can filter it.
Technology is changing all the time. Being able to keep up with it and understand how to teach our students about it is important. The generations we teach have a large amount of access and literacy already with the internet. With social media, websites, coding, and everything in between at our leisure. As educators we can teach our students on how to find a reliable source and how to filter through biases opinions to form their own point of view. We can incorporate technology into our lessons through so many subjects to make our lessons more engaging. We can teach how algorithms work and how we can be influenced easily and how someone can fake something well. We were shown a video by the BBC April fool’s joke in 2008 about penguins flying. It looked real and to someone who wouldn’t know a lot about penguins would think it was. It of course was CGI, but the power and abilities people have it can be a lot to sort through.
The idea of AI is so interesting to me because I can see the benefits and I also am aware of the ‘conspiracy theories’ behind it. Learning about how AI can be helpful through this presentation and throughout Block 1 of the program, the idea of it is growing on me a bit. Seeing how AI is used through games, subtitles, lessons, and just by watching a video. We were given links to these AI games, which quick draw is fun.
https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/#
https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/train
I want to learn more, and I wish we had something big like science world here in PG. The exploration place is one of the closest things we have along with UNBC programs and some others but to be able to have access to science world for field trips etc. would be nice. They do have lots of online resources for educators and sometimes if they are able they can send someone to speak and share like we had today.
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