Hi Brian,

Thank you for the great insights (I highlighted the points that particularly well resonated with me).
Also I agree with your short term hope & strategy as well. If we cannot move the mountain then we might as well take one step at a time with individual schools first and expand the influence to school district and state level.

In the meantime, I have noticed private schools like your school in this country is embracing AI integrated curriculum more aggressively than public schools . Maybe they can adopt this type of AI curriculum (Singapore)too and collect the data and make some impact to non private schools? (https://www.businessinsider.sg/singapore-just-announced-a-national-ai-strategy-that-will-transform-the-country-by-2030-here-are-the-5-major-plans-underway/)

4) Personalised education

In 2020, an automated marking system for the English language will be launched at selected pilot primary and secondary schools. The system will assess short-response questions and essays and provide quick feedback on the student’s work.This will be expanded to other subjects by 2030. By 2025, an adaptive learning system and learning companion will be launched to better support the differing needs and capabilities of each student. The adaptive learning system will use machine learning to tell how each student responds to learning materials in order to recommend a customised pathway for each individual. An AI learning companion will also help students reflect on their learning experiences and recommending further learning activities.

Best regards,
~ Yoonjung

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On Dec 27, 2019, at 12:41 PM, Brian Frank <brian.frank@questacademy.org> wrote:

Just catching up on my emails after the holidays and saw this one.  Before I became a teacher I ran big corporate projects, sometimes implementing them across thousands of US offices.  The key to success with these huge projects was effective organizational change management - carefully guiding all of those that are impacted through the change (even if it's a net positive).  Without a well-executed change plan that answers the question "What's in it for me?", many employees, local management and even customers will push back and slow down or completely stop the project rollout.

Rewriting curriculum to teach CS and AI in general education settings in the US is the project implementation, so before that happens someone needs to explain to those impacted (teachers, administration and parents) why this is an important thing to do.  I work at a private school, so agreeing to implement CS and AI in our classrooms 'simply' required the agreement of our board and the head of school.  We then planned and rolled out an AI education and communication plan for our teachers and parents which has helped support our new curriculum rollout.  Everyone impacted at our school knows what we're trying to do and supports the way that we're doing it.

To accomplish this across the entire country implies that someone in the federal government would fully embrace the integrated CS/AI education approach, develop a nation-wide AI education and communication plan for teachers, administrators and parents and then lead the difficult work to get everyone on board with this massive change.  In our highly decentralized education structure with politically polarized citizens, it is almost impossible to imagine this happening anytime soon.  Creating national AI education standards is an important step but it's clearly not enough to drive a successful national rollout - look at what happened with Common Core.  I think our best hope in the short-term is for individual schools, districts and potentially states to take the lead in integrated CS/AI curriculum and for us to help expose and promote these educational success stories through our networks.

BTW, I love the article and am thrilled to be part of this community.

Happy new year,

Brian 
    

On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 11:44 AM Yoonjung Lera <yoonjung@wisen.space> wrote:
Hi all,

I agree with April wholeheartedly in that “teaching CS and AI in general education settings”. And as far as I know, some of countries adopted this already like South Korea very aggressively. I don’t want to distract this discussion off the tangent but seriously wondering what is the biggest roadblock in this country to make that (teaching CS and AI in general education) happen. Any insightful response will be greatly appreciated. 

Happy holidays to you all 🎄

~ Yoonjung (WisenBoom)

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On 24 Dec 2019, at 6:49 AM, April DeGennaro <degennaro.april@mail.fcboe.org> wrote:

Dave,
This is a wonderful article. We need something like this to give to teachers to help them move forward in teaching CS and AI in general education settings.
Happy Holidays, all.
April

On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 12:18 AM Dave Touretzky <dst@cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
The attached article just appeared in AI Magazine, the flagship
publication of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI).

-- Dave

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