Name: AI in Schools: The Good, The Bad & How to Set It Up for Success
Start: 2025-05-10T09:45:00+0800
End: 2025-05-10T11:00:00+0800

Saturday May 10, 2025 9:45am - 11:00am CST

2nd Floor Tech Cube

AI is transforming education and student life in ways both exciting and deeply concerning. While it can enhance learning and creativity, it also presents serious risks—deepfakes, manipulated images, and AI-generated chatbots that exploit loneliness and vulnerability. Too often, when students fall into harmful AI-driven spaces, it’s because they feel disconnected in the real world. This session will explore how schools can take a proactive approach—helping students find the good in AI, understand its dangers, and, most importantly, build real-world belonging so they are less likely to seek unsafe connections online.

Why this matters:

AI is not just about ChatGPT and homework—students are facing deepfakes, body manipulation, AI-generated influencers, and romance chatbots that impact self-esteem and relationships.
Schools must go beyond banning AI—developing a framework that educates and safeguards students against misinformation and AI-driven deception.

Practical strategies & policy development:

Creating a schoolwide AI policy that provides clarity for students, teachers, and parents.
Teaching students and staff to recognize AI-generated deception, including deepfakes, AI-altered images, and algorithm-driven manipulation.
Addressing AI’s influence on online relationships, including AI chatbots and romance simulators.
Examining the impact of AI on mental health, particularly in body image manipulation and AI-generated influencers.
Building AI literacy into advisory, media literacy, and digital citizenship programs.
Educating parents on AI’s risks without fearmongering.

Key Takeaway: School leaders will leave with a clear roadmap for AI education and policy, along with practical strategies to teach AI literacy across different roles in the school.

Speakers

Allison Ochs

Founder and Owner, Edit change management -Digital Wellbeing and Citizenship

Allison Ochs is an American-Swiss social pedagogue, author, lecturer, and consultant specializing in digital literacy and citizenship in schools and beyond. With a background in social work and education, Allison has worked with families, children, and schools in diverse capacities... Read More →

Saturday May 10, 2025 9:45am - 11:00am CST
2nd Floor Tech Cube

Whole Community (Anyone)

EduLead 2025

Allison Ochs

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