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Highlighted Session: AI in the classroom: How media literacy can offer a path for teacher education around the world

Wed, March 26, 1:15 to 2:30pm, Palmer House, Floor: 3rd Floor, Salon 3

Group Submission Type: Highlighted Paper Session

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With the rise of generative AI, many educators fear academic dishonesty, misinformation, and copyright infringement. As with new emerging media, the fear of losing “control” becomes paramount. How can we prepare educators to answer these questions: What is the future of Generative AI, and how can media literacy demystify ethical concerns surrounding AI? The panelists in this session will present case studies of teacher education and professional development from Brazil, Greece, and the United States.
The researchers observed educators across different context applying Generative AI tools in the form of classroom assignments involving text-based and image-based design. Participating students had to tackle ethical concerns such as honesty, integrity, discrimination, and intellectual property theft, among many others. What are the ethical problems they care about the most? Are there any differences in how students from various contexts approach to ethics in AI? What are their thoughts on the potential of these tools, and what do they fear the most about AI? The researchers will share their findings and present practical ideas for initiating discussion about the ethical concerns of Generative AI in any classroom setting. During this discussion panel, participants will be encouraged to ask questions and engage in conversation about teaching ethics in AI.
This panel will offer participants a glance at how various educational settings, address teaching and teacher education about degenerative AI and its ethical concerns. Looking at various types of professional development, training, and assignments with different learners and goals will allow us to examine the similarities and differences in using media literacy education to prepare educators and administrators to address the manufactured realities used as propaganda. With examples from each one of the five case studies and a summary of the benefits of teaching ethical AI within teacher education, we hope to help address new moral dilemmas as generative AI takes a major role in our lives.
The first panelist, Dr. Yonty Friesem, is an associate professor of communication at Columbia College Chicago and the executive director of the Media Education Lab. Yonty has been designing the MediaEd Institute (Formerly the summer institute in Digitla Literacy) for 14 years to address current challenges of digital media within the educational system. For this presentation, Yonty will share work with the latest cohort of teachers taking the 6 week long online training on media ethics where the educators can learn how to navigate ethical issues in the media. Yonty will showcase how the cohort of educators examines the ethical issues of applying generative AI into their own classrooms from a media literacy perspective.
The second panelist, Dr. Nikos Panagiotou, Professor at Aristotle University will share how professional development applying a media literacy approach in Greece helps educators explore how AI technologies are being leveraged to help students critically assess media sources, identify misinformation, and navigate the complex media landscape. Nikos will describe specific examples from a Greek professional development and its application of an innovative program, it highlights successes, challenges, and lessons learned, offering insights that are relevant to global educational contexts. The presentation also explores the role of educators after taking the professional development in adapting AI tools to foster critical thinking and empower students to combat media manipulation.
The third panelist, Dr. Michael A. Spikes from Northwestern University will discuss how to provide professional development to media educators on the ethical issues that surround the use of AI as part of producing journalism, and particularly the ways that AI accelerates the creation and propagation of “pink slime” news sites. He will also briefly share tools he demonstrates in teacher education for ethical AI uses in journalism that he himself embeds in his broadcast journalism courses.
The fourth panelist, Alexandre Le Voci Sayad, CEO and founder of ZeitGeist and special advisor on Media and Information Literacy to UNESCO. He will present the experience in teacher education course called “Artificial Intelligence and Critical Thinking”. The course focuses on basic teacher education (from Kindergarten to High School). Alex will share the main findings from his book based on his study on Artificial Intelligence and Critical Thinking. Last, he will show how episodes of the television series “Idade Mídia” on Futura Channel promoted teacher's professional education in Brazil.
The fifth panelist, Dr. Anna Kozlowska-Barrios, is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). She primarily works with Honors College students majoring in STEM fields. Because UIC is a federally designated Minority Serving Institution (MSI), most students in her classroom come from immigrant backgrounds. She will focus on how she advocates for faculty in her university to address ethical concerns of Generative AI, such as discrimination and intellectual property theft, with a particular emphasis on students' voices from immigrant backgrounds. She will also offer best practices for teaching AI to this student population.
With the rise of generative AI, many educators fear academic dishonesty, misinformation, and copyright infringement. This panel will offer a path for revising professional development to better prepare educators and administrators in various educational settings to address generative AI and its ethical concerns. The panelists in this session will present case studies of teaching and teacher education from Brazil, Greece, and the United States. Looking at a media literacy method in professional development with different audiences and goals will allow us to offer a roadmap of media literacy education to prepare our educators and therefore our students as well for a world of uncertainty with manufactured realities used as propaganda. By the end of the session, participants will be able to have this roadmap to creating a professional development encompassing multiple approaches of media literacy to their particular educational setting to introduce the ethical use of generative AI to their students.

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