Leveraging the Humanities for the Development of AI Skills

Teacher Version

Objective Standards Description

Objective

Teachers will be able to:

Understand how to develop AI skills using their existing Humanities experience and expertise.
Experiment with AI using existing skillsets in a way that will increase comfort with the technology and allow them to pass on knowledge to students.

Standards

State Standards

Concepts

Globalization, Productive Resources

Description

Students and teachers need AI skills to adapt to our changing economy, and using AI is a creative writing skill. Don’t take it from me, take it from Jules White, Senior AI Advisor at Vanderbilt University. This session will show you why and how to leverage your existing Humanities skills to gain more comfort with AI systems — and subsequently pass knowledge onto your students to ensure ethical AI use.

Subjects:

Other,Economics

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