AI Unplugged

AI Unplugged: The Hype and Hope in Education Futures addresses a comprehensive range of challenging and potential-rich scenarios for the integration of generative artificial intelligence into curriculum, instruction and assessment in schools. It does so from a critical perspective, seeing teaching and learning as an intensely human activity. AI can help but not replace the work that skilled, professional teachers do. Many school professionals are concerned about the impact that AI tools will have on academic integrity, job security, teacher-student relationships, algorithmic bias, digital privacy and beyond, particularly as young learners become proficient in free-to-use tools and other AI resources. This book provides graduate students, teaching faculty and scholars of teacher education, as well as school and district leadership, with accessible background information, practical use cases and change management approaches pertaining to generative AI. Teacher unions will also gain insight into what their peers are doing regarding AI and the profession. School professionals in training will come away with a substantive, evidence-based means of discovering and integrating AI in ways that accommodate common uncertainties and greater preparation to manage risks and lead change.

Stephen Murgatroyd is Chief Executive Officer of Skills4AllOurFuture, Founder & Director of Collaborative Media Group Inc., and an Academic Coach in the Faculty of Business at Athabasca University, Canada. J-C Couture is Adjunct Professor & Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Part 1: Setting the Stage: The Contested Context for AI in Schools 1. Contested Futures: Navigating the Emergence of AI in K-12 Education 2. Critical Praxis: Reimagining AI as a Co-Intelligence 3. Navigating Contested Terrain: Risks, Uncertainties and the Politics of AI Implementation 4. Contested Futures: Navigating Possibility, Not Inevitability 5. Teacher Organizations Anticipating AI 6. From Critique to Creation: Design Justice as Transformative Praxis 7. Beyond Resistance: Regenerative Futures for Education Part 2: AI In Action: Possibilities and Lessons 8. Beyond Surveillance and Scores: Reimagining Assessment Through Design Justice 9. Beyond Cognitive Offloading: AI, Deep Learning and the Paradox of Student Agency 10. Exceptionalities, Technology, and Justice: Beyond Access to Liberation 11. Making Futures Happen: Use Cases for AI in Schools 12. Critical Competencies: Skills for Agency, Not Compliance 13. The Imperative to Innovate - The 'AI Literacy' Race Epilogue: AI - Neither "The Last Invention" nor "The Last Conversation"