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How Should We Approach the Ethical Considerations of AI in K-12 Education?

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And with this change comes a host of new questions—concerns about the ethical design and implementation of these new tools. In K-12 education, a focus on ethical considerations is of critical importance. Students, as consumers and users of AI tools themselves, need a foundational education on what AI is and how it works.

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How Teachers Are Pondering the Ethics of AI

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It’s also somewhat eclipsed conversations about the ethics of how these tools are implemented, according to one observer. And the decisions those teachers make may be influenced by factors like how familiar they are with the technology or even what gender they are, according to a new study. The main findings?

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Is It Ethical to Run Learning Experiments On Students Without Their Knowledge?

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That’s the ethics debate playing out in one online educator space , a lively back-and-forth carried over from a recent workshop on educational A/B testing. He adds that the discussion is ultimately one among practitioners about methods and what’s ethical. “It It carries with it the question of, what’s benign? Lynch says.

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Supporting Digital Citizenship Through Ethical Monitoring

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But when it comes to ethical monitoring—concerned with how school systems set up their digital classroom management tools and teachers use them—we hear far too little. If we truly expect learners to develop those desired digital citizenship skills, educators must first become ethical monitors of their students’ online activity.

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University Data Science Programs Turn to Ethics and the Humanities

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Formulating a product, you better know about ethics and understand legal frameworks.” Madsen recently tweeted his frustration, spurring a conversation about ethics in data science curriculum, what’s missing, and where programs are already working to fill in the gap. Research ethics is baked in throughout the curriculum,” Hale explains.

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The Moral Imperative of Teaching Every Student Tech Ethics

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After all, when it comes to emerging technology, equity in terms of factors like gender and race is crucial. Educators can facilitate conversations around ethics in technology with students so that these technologies develop equitably. Today’s schools can start laying the groundwork now.

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A look at AI use in schools across the country

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Of the 50 percent of surveyed educators who use generative AI, 72 percent plan to use it even more in the next school year; 76 percent believe generative AI is at least somewhat valuable to their work, and 73 percent say it saves them time. In Michigan’s Fenton Area Public Schools, staff may use AI in ethical and responsible ways.

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