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.”
Calculators also made people dumber, but the world goes on with technology elevating peoples ability to be productive despite being dumber. Trying to stop technological progress is never going to be a good thing, you can scare monger all you want that it will turn us all fascist but youre no different than those complaining about cars or the internet.
If calculators routinely gave the wrong answer this would be more compelling.
We better do something like China does with the great firewall, before the sky falls.
That’s such a non sequitur I don’t even know what you’re trying to communicate
The technological progress LLMs represent has come to completion. They’re a technological dead end. They have no practical application because of hallucinations, and hallucinations are baked into the very core of how they work. Any further progress will come from experts learning from the successes and failures of LLMs, abandoning them, and building entirely new AI systems.
AI as a general field is not a dread end, and it will continue to improve. But we’re nowhere near the AGI that tech CEOs are promising LLMs are so close to.
How long have you been under the influence of Ai? Cause I think you are starting to show symptoms.
You see, a calculator actually functions and doesn’t make shit up. Pretty simple concept.