AI-driven platform GenerationAI focuses on integrating artificial intelligence into educational settings, enhancing teacher's capabilities
ISTE, the International Society for Technology in Education, has announced a new AI-centric funding program called GenerationAI. This initiative aims to close the knowledge gap surrounding AI in education and empower teachers to effectively integrate artificial intelligence into their classrooms.
Tara Nattrass, Managing Director of ISTE + ASCD, discussed the importance of GenerationAI, emphasizing its role as a hub of innovation and creativity. The program will collect case studies, videos, frameworks, and resources to support educators nationwide, providing high-quality professional learning on AI.
The key objectives of GenerationAI include supporting teachers as leaders in AI integration, providing funding and resources for educators, encouraging responsible AI use, focusing on workforce readiness, and possibly including teacher training, curriculum development, and co-design processes. The program also aims to build identity-affirming communities of practice for teachers, building leaders, and district leaders, and to amplify the voices of educators in the developing medium of AI and technology.
GenerationAI will achieve its goals through four core principles. It will help clarify how AI is being used and its potential benefits in education, educate teachers on AI use within classrooms, build identity-affirming communities of practice, and help students understand their work better through the unique appeal of AI to individual students' needs.
In addition to ISTE, GenerationAI is partnering with several organizations, including NEA, CSTA, CBED, L4E, Indigitize, and Playlab. The funding for GenerationAI, in part, comes from Google.org, which has announced a new AI-centric funding program, contributing more than $25 million.
The focus of GenerationAI is to normalize the conversation around AI in education and help everyone better understand its applications and potential benefits. The goal is to help teachers adapt AI in the classroom to enhance teaching methods and learning experiences for students. GenerationAI intends to make the classroom experience simpler and help teachers and students connect more effectively.
With the aim to reach over 200,000 educators nationwide within the next three years, GenerationAI will continue to work towards closing the knowledge gap surrounding AI in education and fostering a new generation of AI-ready educators and learners. For specific details on ISTE’s GenerationAI program, it may be beneficial to check ISTE’s official announcements or website directly.
- ISTE's GenerationAI program aims to create identity-affirming communities of practice for teachers, building leaders, and district leaders, using technology and digital resources to support educators nationwide.
- The goal of GenerationAI is to help teachers adapt AI in the classroom, enhancing teaching methods and learning experiences for students while making the classroom experience simpler for both teachers and students.
- With a focus on education-and-self-development, online-education, and the integration of AI in education, GenerationAI will provide high-quality professional learning on AI, including case studies, videos, frameworks, and resources.
- By partnering with organizations such as NEA, CSTA, CBED, L4E, Indigitize, and Playlab, ISTE's GenerationAI intends to normalize the conversation around AI in education, helping everyone better understand its applications and potential benefits.
- The aim of GenerationAI is to close the knowledge gap surrounding AI in education and foster a new generation of AI-ready educators and learners, reaching over 200,000 educators within the next three years.
