Weekly Reflection: Pro-D Day Sessions

Session #1: Student AI Literacy Lessons K-12

The session focused on two topics which were the negative and positive uses of AI.

To begin with the negative aspects of AI of course consisted of the detrimental environmental aspects of using AI. However, a topic that intrigued me and that I was interested in was the topic of deepfakes. An example that was used and brought up during the session was how important it is to educate students on the negative implications of deepfakes in regards to blackmail. I found this relatable as right now in my assessment class we are lesson planning for a social studies 9 mini unit on current events. One of the issues that we are looking at in this unit is the topic of “fake news” and how AI can create deepfakes that might be very convincing and real. I have attached the a news article with a video on the AI deepfake video in which we are exploring in this unit:

I found this session very relevant and helpful for planning our socials unit plan for my assessment course, and as well moving forward as an educator.

Session #2: Student Cybersecurity Awareness Lessons (3-12)

This session was the one that intrigued myself the most, and hence why I signed up for. To begin with, resources on cybersecurity education for students can be found here.

We looked at a variety of resources that can be used to teacher cybersecurity topics to grades 8-12. We began with looking at lesson plan resources for creating safe passwords .

The area that intrigued myself the most was the topic of social media literacy. I believe this is an area that I want to focus on heavily as an educator as it was an area when I was a student that was not focused on enough. Here is the link to the resources on social media literacy .

This information I received in this session is content I want to implement when teaching PHE in relation to health content. Social media literacy is an aspect of health content I believe is not covered enough, despite being such a critical component of our (in particular students) everyday life. To end with, attached is the link to the topic of online identity. This is where I explored during the last part of the session where it was a student led time to explore the website we were exploring. I really certainly refer to these resources later on in my career when needed when focusing on teaching online literacy to students.

I have left the two sessions today with access to new resources I can access when teaching my students in the future.