New Guidance from TeachAI and CSTA Emphasizes Computer Science Education solon Important than Ever in an Age of AI – Information Global Internet

The counselling features newborn analyse accumulation and insights from teachers and experts in machine power (CS) and AI, revelation the forthcoming of CS education.

SEATTLE, July 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Today, TeachAI, led by Code.org, ETS, the International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE), Khan Academy, and the World Economic Forum, launches a newborn start in partnership with the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) to hold and charge educators as they clutch with the ontogeny opportunities and risks of AI in machine power (CS) education.

Guidance on the Future of Computer Science in the Age of AI launches with threesome underpants matured by TeachAI and CSTA in partnership with AAAI, AI4K12, Code.org, Digital Promise, Everyday AI, the Teutonic Informatics Society, Grok Academy, and directive researchers including Karen Brennan, Shuchi Grover, Maya Israel, and Matti Tedre. The underpants entertainer on primeval investigate and insights from CSTA members, organizations in the TeachAI consultatory committee, and proficient pore groups to come ordinary misconceptions most AI and substance a counterpoised appearance on grave issues in CS education, including:

• Why is it Still Important for Students to Learn to Program?
• How Are Computer Science Educators Teaching With and About AI?
• How Can Students Become Critical Consumers and Responsible Creators of AI?

“CS teachers are inclination into doctrine with and most AI, still it module verify more than CS teachers to front AI literacy. This counselling serves as an warning for the whole activity accord to study as we grappling with the persona of AI in every subjects and every classroom,” said Pat Yongpradit, Chief Academic Officer of Code.org and Lead of TeachAI.

As AI becomes progressively inform in the classroom, educators are understandably afraid most how it strength stop the doctrine of set CS skills same programming. With these briefs, TeachAI and CSTA wish to fortify the intent that acquisition to information is the cornerstone of computational intellection and an essential gateway to the problem-solving, grave thinking, and fictive intellection skills needed to turn in today’s digitally unvoluntary world. The uprise of AI exclusive makes CS activity more important, with early research display that grouping with a greater apprehension of inexplicit profession concepts are healthy to ingest AI tools more effectively than those without.

“Even in an geezerhood of AI, teachers are vital for delivering high-quality and evenhanded machine power education,” said Bryan Twarek, Head of Research and Innovation at CSTA. “We intend to charge teachers by suasion their intellection with whatever primeval insights from another educators and researchers.”

To inform this start and meliorate wager pedagogue perspectives and expectations attendant to the persona of AI in CS curriculum and education, TeachAI and CSTA conducted a analyse of direct and alternative machine power teachers in the outflow of 2024.

Key Survey Findings

• CS teachers are mostly pollyannaish or viewless on the possibleness benefits and risks of AI in CS education: 52% said the benefits predominate the risks, 43% wager an coequal mix, and exclusive 5% said the risks predominate the benefits.
• CS curriculum is cod for a change: 80% of teachers concord that set concepts in CS activity should be updated to accent topics that meliorate hold acquisition most AI.
• CS teachers requirement hold to inform with and most AI: 88% indicated a requirement for added resources and professed acquisition to inform with and most AI.

“We requirement to support students see to communicate questions well,” said Christina Gardner-McCune, assort academic at the University of Florida and co-chair of AI4K12. “We requirement to inform them to hit control of these tools.”

In occasion of the launch, TeachAI module patron start webinars on Wednesday, August 14. To register, meet www.teachai.org/webinars or meet teachai.org/cs to see more most the guidance.

About TeachAI
TeachAI brings unitedly activity body and profession experts to support governments and activity polity in doctrine with and most AI. The start is led by Code.org, ETS, the International Society for Technology in Education, Khan Academy, and the World Economic Forum and wise by a different assemble of 150+ organizations, governments, and individuals. TeachAI’s goals allow guiding policy, antiquity accord and capacity, and crescendo awareness. To see more most TeachAI, gratify meet www.teachai.org/about.

About CSTA
The Computer Science Teachers Association’s (CSTA) assignment is to empower, engage, and exponent for K-12 machine power teachers worldwide. With more than 25,000 members, CSTA supports and promotes the doctrine of machine power and another profession disciplines. Visit https://csteachers.org/ to see more.

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