Here's what's actually happening across the country:
Thirty-seven states have now published official AI guidance for schools, but South Carolina is not one of them, so the 50,000-student Charleston County School District set out to build its own approach from scratch, calling it "a huge endeavor."
The district brought in AI for Education, the same group that helped write guidance for Chicago, Houston, and dozens of other districts.
Utah's training model, teaching the basics of how AI works alongside bias, hallucinations, ethics, and data privacy, has already been copied by Maine, West Virginia, and Georgia.
Extensive AI literacy training requires steep investment, which raises real concerns that kids in under-resourced districts won't get the same attention as kids in wealthier ones.
One expert put the goal simply: good AI literacy includes knowing when not to use it.
Thirty-seven states have now published official AI guidance for schools, but South Carolina is not one of them, so the 50,000-student Charleston County School District set out to build its own approach from scratch, calling it "a huge endeavor."
The district brought in AI for Education, the same group that helped write guidance for Chicago, Houston, and dozens of other districts.
Utah's training model, teaching the basics of how AI works alongside bias, hallucinations, ethics, and data privacy, has already been copied by Maine, West Virginia, and Georgia.
Extensive AI literacy training requires steep investment, which raises real concerns that kids in under-resourced districts won't get the same attention as kids in wealthier ones.
One expert put the goal simply: good AI literacy includes knowing when not to use it.