Assignment 6: Ethical Uses of AI in Education

Directions: 

In our introduction to Artificial Intelligence, and AI in education, we have read a number of scholars who have emphasized the need for leadership, guidance, and formal structures that delineates explicit values (i.e., "human rights") as a key component of AI. In education, as a humanizing enterprise (i.e., one that seeks to create learning spaces, experiences, and practices in which our humanity is emphasized, rather than technology reducing, limiting, or inhibiting on these creative processes), it makes sense to think critically about the ways that AI might be used. However, it is clear that traditionally powerful Ed Tech actors (i.e., those designing AI systems and those advocating for AI in education) are often not the same people as those who are harmed by Ed Tech (i.e., marginalized populations, those in the Global South, and others). Therefore, there is a tension between the desire to experiment and innovate with emerging technologies, such as AI, and being a critical scholar of educational technology, who knows the ways that technology has been used in harmful ways. As educators, our job is to manage this tension productively, with an eye toward the future and its innovative potentialities, while recognizing and actively working to understanding how harm is unevenly distributed in society. 

Therefore, this assignment asks you to visit a student-created archive Links to an external site. and then to adapt a lesson, activity, or experience. These activities were created by undergraduate students, so you will bring your critical, trained eye to validating this student work and also looking for potential harms (as discussed in this unit's readings). 

Requirements:

• Visit the archive and review the activities
• Adapt, modify, or create a new activity, lesson, or experience for your professional context (Part 1)
• Keeping this unit's readings in mind, actively integrate "ethical AI" into this work
• Write a 250-300 words reflection, in which you describe how your activity, lesson or experience was an example of "ethical AI" (Part 2)
• Upload Parts 1 & 2 as a single document to this padlet Links to an external site.