The EduProtocol Field Guide: AI Literacy Edition Book Review

Ryan -The Pixel Classroom: Hello everybody and welcome to the Pixel Classroom Podcast. This is a book review, which we'll be doing the Edu Protocol Field Guy, AI Literacy, 15 Lesson Frames for Teaching AI Literacy in any content area. I am, of course, Ryan Reed, your host here, and I, of course, got the brand new one piece in here using the well, of course, one here, the Edu Protocol Field Guys AI Literacy Edition. I actually got this last spring. Here, this is season eight. This was actually originally supposed to be one of the final episodes for season seven. Schedules got busy, time got busy, and I said I had to end the season without getting this book review. I was making the transition two from Restream to Riverside, which is what I'm now recording on these days. And it just got lost in the shovel. But even better though, I have been putting the practices in order. So let's talk about this both for our video people as well as our audio listeners. So AI Proto Golf Strategy Guide, this is by Kate Meyer and Nick Cole Davis, of course, with Milani Herman and John Kapora, who has, of been a fantastic guest I've had on the podcast twice. I'm hoping to get John in sometime this season, too. John and I just have a little too much fun. But I did like that. We do live in an age. Of AI. It is everywhere. There's a lot of pieces. There's a lot of differences on everything. And the question is, how can we use it as a good tool? As you know, when I worked in Harvard, hard to believe now, two years ago, we had I was part of the AI Education Council, how we were going to use AI programs and so forth. It worked great. We have here, and I really do love the system here, which they use here. And I'm going to switch that over for the video. People who are listening in the audio will be able to do this, but I definitely love. The keep the human in the loot. Use H Halt and ask yourself: is this something you want to use AI for? Is the outcome appropriate for the task? Is it an ethical use of AI? This is a great question because I just recently did this, which I'm going to talk about in the classroom. Of course, you utilize. How might you utilize effective prompts to help craft your inquiry? Because you can't just say, hey, make my PowerPoint look pretty. Well, that's great. How do you want to make it look pretty? I mean, yes, now we have Banana imaging in Google Slides, it doesn't always come out the way you want it to do. What frameworks will help ensure the desired output? A great question. monitoring, accuracy, and bias. Do you have evidence to back up information? What perspective is missing? Is the information new neutral or is it through specific lens? And you gotta watch that with AI. Doesn't matter if you use magic school AI, doesn't matter if you use notebook LMS, Gemini. Merton, chat GPT, whatever. Sometimes you gotta be careful. People don't understand is that information is done thing. And the more we use our information, we gotta face it. I taught this in digitalities for a year. We all have our own cognitive bias. There's just some things we do not agree with, whether we have the evidence or not, or thought processes. And as we put that more into it, the AI starts talking and thinking like us. We Can accidentally become our own echo chamber, which is always a big thing, which gets talked of. Make sure it's authenticated. The A in human. Go through inquiry. Is it the ethy your voice on task? Is it work? Is it my work? Is it appropriate to use? Does it you know enhance and not replace the lesson and the learning style? Of course, use the end note. You know, note key elements of use. How do you use the AI? Do you help it for your thinking? Do you need it for disclosure to use AR, or do you need to cite your AI? And that's a great, great question that comes up so many times that I don't think sometimes we even think about using. And that is also a part we have to do. So, you know, it's always up to that idea of how do we use the AI for our pieces? And that's what I really love about the protocols here. So, you know, like I said, I took this in, I've used AI for things. I've helped it with my rubrics, I've helped it for updating lessons. I've even had it to websites that no longer exist, which I recently did too. I am currently teaching some internet safety as well as citing and sorting, and I had to actually use my AI to actually update my links into it. But at the same time is I use that AI to help me. Said based on these links, based on this information, what are some modern sources that are peer review or cited sources? So I used the AI for that. I checked up my thing, made sure it also could clear so my students could look at it, and basically did the lesson. And then believe it or not, I used a mind map and it says, Would you like to update the look? And I said, you know what? Let's use that. And you know what? I agreed with it. I stopped, but it didn't take away the template. It didn't take away the learning objectives. That was still me. That was still from the teacher who developed it. We just gave it, as I say, a fresh coat of paint and updated some of the pieces because, like I said, the lesson at that point, why still relevant, was six years ago. Things have changed. And I really do like that right here. And I have bookmarked right here on my page here on page 43 about discussion about discussion order. But it basically says after students have discussed each scenario, place it on the continuum. Have them write two of their own scenarios about using AI in the classroom. And that's what I did. I put them in that piece and say, not even research is put two things you've learned, put two things you understand. Believe it or not, a lot of things that happen now is some people say, that's AI. Well, is it really AI? Or is that just the pop culture term? It's like how sometimes terms happen and then people use them and not understand what they're saying. So henceforth, that's what I really love about the educators. It goes through the different protocols, it goes through ways you can do that. Of course, managing overwhelming, using things, smart starks. I love it when I have, of course, John and Miriam and all that pop up in the book here about talking about this, about teaching big ideas, using the background, using academic, especially like I said, right here on page 63, as you can see in the visual. Right here, the human thing. And I think that's a great one because this works best after students have had experience with ethical AI use. It's a remix, it's not an introduction, and they're already wrestling with the core human framework question. It's no different, like when we used to use smart goal or the think message. Think, does it harm? Is it accurate? Does it do thing? Does it benefit? It's not much different. We just use AI. Once back in the day, there was early internet. As they used to say, you can't believe everything on the internet. Now some people believe everything on the internet. Some people look at a TikTok and it could be a complete thing saying, you used AI to change it. Like, no, really. I got up on the board, had somebody record it, and I really did that turnpike shuffle. But some people think, that's AI use. It's because it does become comfortable to use it as an excuse. There are people who think, AI is going to replace jobs. Some people out there probably are thinking that. But at the same time is it is also a tool, just like when Google was a tool. Just like when email was a tool. Just like we had things like I'm recording on this camera, a streaming camera, was a tool. It's how you use it. It's teaching ethical practices and well as ways you can do it for both, especially if you are an edu protocol user or fan. I gotta tell you, folks, this book is for you. I am really, really happy with this. I think it is a fantastic book. If you have read the previous educational, you know, edu protocols. Get this book. Seriously, it has been out for a while. I have all of them, even pre-kindergarten, which works, or as they say, TK through second grade. But at the same time, is there's beneficial things for everything. And it even might help you go over things you already use in Edu Pro Cause with the Wait. I didn't think about using that. That's a good idea. I have used it. It's not to do a quick little shortcut, it's not to replace anything you don't already teach or the students learn. It's basically enhancing it, using it as a tool for it. Is and of course the most A journey of learning. And honestly, I can't say more enough in a book, and I am going to keep up with this book. So this is short, this is simple, folks. This gets the five stars from old Ryan Reed here. And honestly, I look forward to the next chapters of the Edu Protocols. But if you're a one deep dive into AI at the early levels, or the fact it's just part of your curriculum in your school learning computers, whether you're one to one or still pencil and paper. There's something here for everybody here. And you can, of course, check out the link here if you want to pick up your book copy either through the website, through Amazon, or your favorite other bookstore or ordering. Because honestly, guys, this is another win for both Edu Protocols and the Dave Burgess consulting publishing area. And honestly, I say that without any cognitive bias. Thanks for joining me today, everybody, on the short and simple review of the Edu Protocols, the AI guide here. I hope you like and subscribe to the channel as well as looking me out on my social medias on both of Blue Sky and Instagram for that, as well as my LinkedIn connections here. Thank you for joining everything and for your support. And thank you for everything you do, everybody here, in both education and more. And I'll talk to everybody later.