The Jedi’s Guide to Ethical AI Leadership

Outline

1. The Force Awakens: Hopes & Fears Activity (10 minutes)
Content: The session begins by exploring participants' hopes and concerns about AI in education. This section highlights the balance between AI’s potential and its risks.
Activity: Participants reflect on their biggest hope and fear related to AI in education.
Process: This opening activity gets participants talking and engaged from the start, creating a safe space to share their views on AI.

2. A New Hope: AI’s Transformative Potential (20 minutes)
Content: This section introduces the transformative possibilities of AI, focusing on its practical applications in education. Participants will see how AI can streamline tasks and support personalized learning.
Presentation: Showcase 2-3 AI tools that allow teachers to save time, increase student engagement, and make learning more accessible to all students
Share: Participants share AI tools they are already familiar with and discuss how AI could help solve a specific challenge in their school or classroom.

3. The Empire Strikes Back: Understanding AI Risks and Limitations (20 minutes)
Content: This section emphasizes the ethical risks and limitations of AI, including bias, privacy concerns, automation of poor teaching practices, and AI’s potential to generate inaccurate content.
Discussion: Discuss the ethical challenges associated with AI (e.g., bias, data privacy, and security).
Small Group Discussion: In groups, participants discuss the potential risks of AI in the scenario and brainstorm strategies to address or mitigate these risks.

4. Return of the Jedi: Framework for Ethical AI Use and Developing AI Guidelines (30 minutes)
Content: In this section, participants will apply the quadrant framework to assess AI tools (helpful vs. harmful, substitution vs. transformation) and create actionable guidelines to address AI’s risks.
Quadrant Framework Activity: Provide participants with 1-2 AI-related scenarios while working in small groups to place these scenarios in the appropriate quadrant.
Guideline Creation: After placing scenarios in the quadrants, participants review the risks discussed earlier and develop a specific guideline to address each risk.
Resource Sharing: Introduce resources like teachai.org and AI4Education.io for participants to further explore the process of creating an AI team in their district.

5. The Last Jedi: Co-pilot, Not Autopilot (10 minutes)
Content: The session concludes by reinforcing the idea that AI is a co-pilot, not an autopilot, and that educators must lead with ethical responsibility.
Call to Action: Participants reflect on and commit to one specific action they will take to promote responsible AI use in their schools.

Supporting research

2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report from Microsoft and LinkedIn
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/ai-at-work-is-here-now-comes-the-hard-part

2024 Global Talent Shortage Report from the Manpower Group
https://go.manpowergroup.com/talent-shortage

The Adoption of ChatGPT across Occupations, by Gender
https://www.aiforeducation.io/s/The-Adoption-of-ChatGPT.pdf

Faithfulness Hallucination Detection in Healthcare AI
https://openreview.net/pdf?id=6eMIzKFOpJ