It's well known that AI can hallucinate and sometimes just get things wrong. (Side note, have you met humans?) The question for educators is how do we teach that important AI literacy lesson to students? You can never be sure when an AI will fail in that way, so a predictable lesson that worked once may never work the same way again. It has to fall to the teachable moments. But beyond, "Hey, look, the AI failed us!" what do we offer our students as the next step? What should they do when the AI fails? Here is an example of the teachable moment that happened last week in my classroom. My seniors are reading Into the Wild. We are nearly done with the book, but my colleague just used her own powers of AI creativity to generate a fun activity where students have to decide what they would put in their own backpacks if they were headed into the wilderness. I liked it. My students liked it. It was a great way to connect with the book on a Friday afternoon. (Pack Like Chris Ac...
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