{"data":{"ID":1419,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1757902974,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Teaching Towards What Lasts in the Age of AI","Handle":"teaching_towards_what_lasts_in_the_age_of_ai","ShortDescription":"AI platforms will come and go. What disposition should we be nurturing in students to prepare them for the murky future of living and working with AI? This conversation will surface new modes of skills that learners need to leverage an unprecedented and evolving AI toolkit: judgment, agency, and creativity.","Description":"Our students are dabbling or completely immersing themselves in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and whatever platform comes next, or our schools provide them with. But these platforms will change, disappear, become outmoded - if we anchor our teaching to platforms, we\u2019ll always be playing catch-up, and our students will be learning how to drive an App, not how to live with AI. The real work is preparing students to navigate a world where large language models are not too far from ubiquity, without losing their judgment, creativity, or agency along the way, but with a new set of skills and thinking habits that no previous generation has had the opportunity or need to cultivate. \r\n\r\nThis conversation invites us to ask: what is worth teaching about AI that won\u2019t be obsolete when the next version drops? How do we help students build durable habits of mind: questioning what a model generates, spotting its blind spots, and using AI not as an answer machine but as a thought partner, editor, or agent. Just as importantly, we\u2019ll consider how AI can offload the repetitive and tedious tasks that often create the friction that serves as a barrier to learning, without robbing students of the productive struggle that defines real learning.\r\n\r\nAgain, our goal isn\u2019t fluency with today\u2019s platforms. It\u2019s something bigger: equipping learners with the literacies and dispositions to learn intentionally with AI for the long haul, no matter what the interface or platform landscape looks like.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"We'll start with a brief framing to set context, but most of the time will be spent in conversation in small working groups, organized by ages taught. Participants will first reflect on their own experiences with students and AI platforms to date, and surface what positive practices and habits have emerged (one norm we'll establish is we're looking for what positive student\/personal habits we've seen developing with AI tools, to see if we can develop into something that might be enduring rather than focus on the pitfalls and annoyances). \r\n\r\nNext, we'll remix into small groups of folx that teach or work with many ages, to compare perspectives and surface the habits and dispositions they think will matter most in the long run, and how we might nurture those in a vertical progression of touchpoints. We\u2019ll use case studies to spark discussion: moments where AI shows up in student work, play, or learning process in positive ways, and from these ask what lasting skills those moments could teach if approached with intention. \r\n\r\nFinally, the group will build a shared artifact of \u201cAI literacies that last\u201d as a shareable online asset, capturing ideas and tensions in plain language that educators can take back to their schools. We\u2019ll end by gathering a round of takeaways, ensuring everyone leaves with both concrete ideas and open questions worth pursuing, and an opportunity for everyone to find an accountability partner if they wish to experiment with anything from this conversation in their current school year.","Presenter":["JP Connolly"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Avenues New York"],"PresenterEmail":["jp.connolly@avenues-ny.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":187,"ScheduleLocationID":34,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":"Looking forward to coming back to EduCon this year - it's been too long!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":13}}