CULTURE

Starting in September, Boston will become the first major city in the US with an AI literacy course for public high schools 🏫 Not sure about you but… I had to take a typing class. And learn how to research on the internet. And how to save files to a floppy disk. This feels like an evolution of that tech literacy, but with higher stakes. According to Boston’s mayor, the curriculum is “really grounded in ethics and grounded in understanding how to maintain and develop creativity, leadership” and is meant to “enhance the learning that's happening, not replace or substitute for it.” It is not a graduation requirement, and they don’t yet know what the exact course structure will be or what grades will take it. My main worry (and it’s a big one) is that leaders and teachers will be too slow to update the course every year citywide. Because while I believe some training is better than none, I worry about teaching outdated AI practices or conventions and the negative effect that could have on a person’s technical decisions.

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