17 3.4 Recommendations for the Future
Professional training for teachers and AI literacy workshops for students will help spread an ethical environment in school. According to Zhao et al. (2022), Many teachers have been exposed to the technological environment with AI-enabled appliances, but they need help understanding the fundamental concepts. Teacher training is vital in teaching ethics, and the administration should always provide professional development training. Due to gaps in curriculum, teachers struggle to help students understand the ethical implications of these issues and continue to face risks while engaging with technology and AI. According to William et al. (2023), schools should include a curriculum designed to incorporate active learning through hands-on activities and projects, embed ethics and critical reflection about societal implications. Teachers need to be trained for this curriculum to encourage students to use AI to generate ideas and promote critical thinking to finish the assignments. Teachers should be trained to explain the importance of sharing who did the work in their assignment to avoid cheating, copyright and plagiarism issues. To begin with, when applying AI approaches, teachers must understand the fundamental concepts, knowledge, and information before providing them to students.
Zhang et al. (2022) demonstrated that interventions like AI Literacy workshops significantly improve student’s understanding of AI and its ethical implications. By engaging in workshops, students internalize what they have experienced, connect to the ethical implications of technology design, and develop positive ideas about their future selves with AI. The positive results of these workshops highlight that AI education in younger grades is essential, and it should focus on filling the gap in understanding the moral and social implications. Students need to know what AI is and how they can use AI ethically in future. It also encourages future interventions to be more hands-on and allow reflective learning experiences for students. Schools should offer workshops or interactive seminars to promote digital citizenship among secondary grades. The addition of short stories with embedded ethical dilemmas is practical for secondary school students to develop an understanding of AI ethics issues such as fairness, bias and privacy (Kilhoffer et al., 2023). The gamified approach in the curriculum is also the best method to teach ethics to students by enhancing engagement and motivation. Activities should include demonstrations of existing AI systems, simulations that allow students to function as different components of an algorithm, and group discussions about how humans and computers accomplish cognitive tasks (William et al., 2023). These additions to the curriculum help students understand the differences in what they are supposed to write in the assignments that ask for human-generated work.
Policymakers should take steps immediately to combat complex issues, such as cyberbullying, plagiarism, and discrimination, arising from the unsafe use of AI. Teachers in schools are performing based on policies placed by policymakers, which need to be modified to deal with challenges that are arising daily. Based on the positive results of developing workshops, administration and policymakers should pay close attention to the framework to teach students about AI, emphasizing teaching ethics at a young age. They should collect feedback from teachers about AI issues happening in the classroom. The student should also take part in developing policies where they can share their experience while using AI. Strengthening policy frameworks, teacher training, and interactive AI workshops help address student’s lack of ethical standards and provide educators with concrete guidelines for teaching AI ethics.
