Krishnan questions AI civics and responsible use education

Great.

And as that, oh, go ahead.

I want to be able to add that also, you know, you and many others have spoken about here is that we're doing this together with our educators, with our parents, and really with our students.

And that that is going to be a really important part of this and ensuring that we have processes that are regularly helping them understand, but also give input and insight into this work so that we can update and continue to be able to revise this work.

Great.

And I would expect that the next set of guidance will have details on how we'll continue to iterate.

And on the point of AI civics, I completely agree with the points that were made earlier.

I'm going to make assumptions, but most, if not all, students are getting access to smartphones.

Their parents and teachers are getting access to these tools, and they're readily available outside of the classroom.

So how are we teaching students to use AI responsibly, critically, ethically, not becoming dependent on it, viewing AI as a tool, not a replacement, and critically evaluating that distinction

to interrogate AI, not just operate AI?

And I know you mentioned this before.

Yeah, and I think that that is truly a conversation and some of the most important things we could be focused on in education today.

And, you know, in an age in which it is

so readily available for us to be able to get access information, but we can't understand whether or not that is officially true, or to be able to participate in our democracy requires that we're educating and working with each other on that.

We have a number of teachers that have been very thoughtful about thinking about what this, it's not just literacy, but really working deeply on evaluating the information that they are getting.

And we look forward to sort of working with our labor partners, with our school principals, and really being able to sort of showcase and demonstrate what that can look like so that we can help support that happening across more and more of our schools.

I would echo the, oh, go ahead.

I wanted to jump in.

As Dr.

Chain, Future Ready NYC is within him, and Future Ready NYC and the Office of Student Pathways this year did create a high school instructional module for students, which was 38 teachers delivered.

It's a 15-lesson module covering AI concepts, ethics, societal impact, and connection to Future Ready Pathways.

That's happening at the high school level.

And then for this coming school year, our computer science education team, which really historically has done a lot of the capacity building and developmental work around computational thinking.

They helped co-create our state standards on the computer science and digital fluency standards.

They will be doing a K-8.

support with teachers as well as instructional modules that aren't just use AI.

It's really looking at the conceptual concepts across age and developmental grade bands.

So they will be implementing that within this school year.