Why teachers and students should be AI literate
Stefania helps teachers, parents, and children to understand the extent to which AI is becoming embedded in every aspect of our lives, and the importance of understanding how it works. With educators and children, Stefania has designed and developed games and tools to teach the fundamentals of programming, showing users how large language models work. Stefania encourages teachers to talk about values and guide their students to help them become critical users of AI.
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“If a lot of the basic skills that we were teaching and learning will become automated, what are the things that we are as humans uniquely positioned to do that we cannot automate?”
Stefania Druga
Stefania Druga
Stefania Druga (PhD) focuses on large language models and the design of creative AI tools and resources for education. She is the principal researcher at the Center of Applied AI Research at the University of Chicago and the founder of Cognimates, an AI education platform that helps educators and learners build games, program robots, and train models.
