“Bringing these issues closer to the classroom today is urgent and from the Public Defenderunderstanding that our work is the defense of the audiences that today are crossed by media, technologies, platforms and AI, we consider it essential to work on media and information literacy,” he said. Sebastian Novomisky, director of Training and Promotion of the Ombudsman.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and Public Defenderwith him National Institute of Teacher Training (INFOD), Registration for the course was launched on Monday of this week. “Media and Information Literacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)” for teachers across the country.
The training will be carried out virtually and lasts for 10 weeks, from September 18 to November 27. Throughout the classes, the course will provide tools to “reflect and produce knowledge to face the challenges that digital environments and the information society impose on teaching practice,” indicates the description of the training.
The content units of the virtual course are: “Artificial intelligence, algorithms and the challenge of technologies in the classroom”, “The field of communication, education in Latin America. The emergence of Media and Information Literacy”, “New challenges and new rights” and “Tools and proposals for the classroom”. According to those responsible, the proposal will not only try to “establish a diagnosis of the situation, but also provide a series of concepts and inputs that allow us to interpret and intervene in the classroom.”
“We have been thinking that generative AI, especially these new programs such as ChatGPT, Bard They produce texts that begin to circulate and that often have erroneous information. Or we start to come across ‘synthetic disinformation’, which are images like the Pope in a rapper jacket that never existed. So we work on the relationship between misinformation and AI”, explained Novomisky, author of the course, along with Nicholas Berbardo.
The specialist maintains that there are “many opportunities” in the uses of AI in the classroom because “they can help to compare information, to complement each other, to renew the didactics a bit.” But he also warned about its risks: “They can produce misinformation or if teachers do not work in the classroom, it is a possibility that students do tasks solved with, for example, ChatGPT and falsify exams, etc.”
So far, the alliance between the Ombudsman, UNESCO and INFOD has trained 10,000 teachers and it is estimated that with this training 3,000 more will be added. “Today you can reproduce things that seem true, that are plausible, but that are not really real. That is why we say that from now on nothing that we see, hear or read a priori can be true”, concluded Novomisky.
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