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New York City is banning the use of generative artificial intelligence for public school students from 2K through 8th grade, part of a larger move to restrict classroom technology in the nation’s largest school district. https://cnn.it/4iGlH79

This is good as long as educators also develop programs on digital literacy and digital citizenship. I think wholesale bans on AI will lead to the same issues that plague the current generation in terms of tech literacy. Kids know how to scroll social media, but do not know how to use computers.

A kid asking AI to open a file for them or start an app for them or whatever is learning even less about how computers work. Using AI != Understanding AI either. The people who use it often have the largest misunderstandings about it. Some come to believe it is actually alive, for instance.

I agree! I just think the two things are unrelated and one is possibly harmful to the other. Digital Literacy courses are important. Ones that don't just slap an ipad or a chromebook in front of you and call it a day as well.