Canada needs a national AI literacy strategy to help students navigate AI
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Step 3: Throw your electronics away, join Canada in negative per capita productivity growth.
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AI is American hoax to win over China.
What do you mean?
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AI is American hoax to win over China.
What do you mean?
AI race with China is artificially created to justify private and public money funding the AI and making it an industry.
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Author: Mohammed Estaiteyeh | Assistant Professor of Digital Pedagogies and Technology Literacies, Faculty of Education, Brock University
One recent study indicates that 78 per cent of Canadian students have used generative AI to help with assignments or study tasks. In China, authorities have even shut down AI apps during nationwide exams to prevent cheating.
The support structures and policies to guide students’ and educators’ responsible use of AI are often insufficient in Canadian schools. In a recent study, Canada ranked 44th in AI training and literacy out of 47 countries, and 28th among 30 advanced economies. Despite growing reliance on these technologies at homes and in the classrooms, Canada lacks a unified AI literacy strategy in K-12 education.
Without co-ordinated action, this gap threatens to widen existing inequalities and leave both learners and educators vulnerable. Canadian schools need a national AI literacy strategy that provides a framework for teaching students about AI tools and how to use them responsibly.
AI literacy is defined as:
“An individual’s ability to clearly explain how AI technologies work and impact society, as well as to use them in an ethical and responsible manner and to effectively communicate and collaborate with them in any setting.”
People who are pro-AI seem so weird and dystopian, people who are anti-AI seem logical and reasonable, but my employer requires us to use AI, and I’ve even been forced to work on multiple AI projects recently. It does seem it’s unavoidable unfortunately, but honestly Copilot has given me some of the most useful autocompletions I’ve ever had, especially for tedious things like logging, and I’ve had good luck with ChatGPT assisting with tedious things as well like writing both scaffolding and queries. Considering all of that, I’m torn on AI. I am afraid of the consequences of AI, the fallout of all of it, but I also do find AI/LLMs useful in my day-to-day job and I’m required to use them for my day-to-day job as well.
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Step 3: Throw your electronics away, join Canada in negative per capita productivity growth.
I’m all in on these NFTs, bros. Ain’t no way I’m missing the revolution!
