From elementary classrooms to college labs, AI is changing how students learn STEM. It offers personalization, collaboration, and efficiency, but it also risks skill loss, academic dishonesty, and teacher frustration. Context and guidance are key. When paired with training, structured use, and attention to ethical issues, AI can evolve from a destabilizing force into a scaffold for critical thinking and real-world readiness. It’s an urgent issue, because AI is developing so fast that the changes it can bring could well escape our ability to manage them.
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Over two-thirds of Americans have little or no understanding of how AI tools work to shape what we read, think, buy, stream, and generally encounter in our online lives. For students entering a workforce increasingly shaped by AI tools that are getting developed at lightning speed, such a lack of understanding can hinder career success. Our AI career guide and student workbook publications can help.
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AI is already embedded in students' lives and will be only more so in their careers. Their future successes will require AI literacy. While only 2% of jobs require technical AI skills, understanding and using AI tools are crucial for all. Read more to find out what AI literacy is really all about and how to help students build it into their educational and career plans.
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