What is AI literacy and digital literacy? Well, it shouldn't be just be teaching students "how to use."
It should be teaching students the technologies on a level that they can understand them much, much more deeply.
We don't want "societal automatons" who just use as they're told.
We should want humans who can make the moral choices about what role AI specifically and technology generally plays in their lives and their future.
We should want humans who can decide for themselves whether the energy costs, water costs, and other resource costs are worth the continued personal and societal investment in AI and other technologies.
Too often Ed Tech and Digital literacy is about making "good-little users and consumers of technology."
Equipping our young with the whole picture behind these technologies, such as environmental costs, human costs, even personal costs, as well as a deep understanding beyond just churning out users for business and industry is imperative.
Otherwise we are just dumping all the problems in their laps to solve. And I don't have the religious faith in technology that I once held. It is not our savior in waiting. We still have to come back to the human.
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