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  • Dr. Lesley Farmer
  • California State University Long Beach
  • lfarmer@csulb.edu

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COLLEGE-DEVELOPED AI ETHICS GUIDELINES FOR K-12 TEACHERS AND LIBRARIANS

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  • One of the indicators of AI literacy is its ethical use.
  • To this end, CSU Long Beach College of Education developed a series of guidelines with resources aimed at college students and K-12 students.
  • I served as the school librarian representative on this committee.
  • This session explains the process of their development and distribution,  noting their implications and use by school librarians.

ABSTRACT

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Pitch Deck

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CONTEXT

  • CSU Long Beach College of Education
  • K-12 Teacher and Teacher Librarian preparation
  • College and University concerns about (generative) AI
  • Goals: knowledge, skills and dispositions
  • Where is ethics???

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OUR ETHICAL ROLE:�FOSTER ETHICAL AI USE AND DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP

  • AI issues: bias, privacy concerns, algorithm fairness, copyright
  • Digital citizenship with AI
  • Critical thinking
  • Societal impact of AI

(ISTE: The hands-on AI Projects for the classroom guide)

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GUIDELINE TOPICS FOR FACULTY

  • Generic ethical AI use
  • (G)AI’s unethical practices
  • Students’ unethical use
  • Consequences of unethical AI use
  • Encountering and counteracting unethical AI use, teacher recommendations,
  • Considerations of ethical AI use: linguistics, subject, SLO, stages of learning
  • Resources

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  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fpfx5I4kEVsZ_MPtly54xbbs9cmsEY9v/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107167216046356013902&rtpof=true&sd=true

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WHAT ARE LIBRARIAN AI LEADER SUPERPOWERS?

  • YOU are information professionals
  • YOU are educational tech savvy
  • YOU have led prior tech adoptions (e.g., Internet, Wikipedia, social media)
  • YOU probably have more education than most personnel
  • YOU work and collaborate with the entire school community and other libraries
  • YOU work across curricula and some co-curricular activities
  • YOU teach multiple literacies
  • YOU provide formal and informal education
  • YOU provide a unique welcoming, safe and stimulating learning environment

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ETHICAL AI GUIDELINES FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIES

  • Generic ethical AI use
  • AI tools ethical issues
  • Identifying and counteracting unethical AI use
  • Recommendations for teachers
  • AI use considerations: linguistics, learning objective, stages of learning

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  • https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LVA-V6-NznG8yyR6XYfPD8vqb0FahYx7/view?usp=sharing

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STRATEGIES FOR INCORPORATING AI ETHICS

RESOURCES

  • Identify, test, compare, select AI tools for their ethical practice
  • Promote ethical AI tools and other resources about AI ethics
  • Share the AI ethics guide

INSTRUCTION

  • Teacher ABOUT and WITH ethical AI tools
  • Apply skills used with supporting literacies
  • Collaboratively tie AI ethics to curriculum
  • Provide PD to faculty and families

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https://www.euriun.com/ai-guidelines/

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AI MIRRORS TRADITIONAL RESEARCH SKILLS

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Prompt engineering

    • Search strategies

Evaluating sources

    • Know reputable sources
    • Fact-check

Lateral reading

Summarize/extract

Organize

Citing sources

    • Citing styles

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Cross formats

Cross POV

Concept map

Timeline

Spreadsheet

Headings

Key words

Quotes

Now add the ethics dimension…

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IT’S YOUR ETHICAL DUTY AND OPPORTUNITY TO MODEL AND TEACH AI ETHICS���AND YOU CAN DO IT!