「人工智能素養」在學校興起。原因何在？ （2/2）

 Recently the New York Times reported the following:

‘A.I. Literacy’ Is Trending in Schools. Here’s Why. (2/2)

Artificial intelligence companies are urging teachers to prepare students for an “A.I.-driven future.” What that means varies from school to school.

The NYT - By Natasha Singer - Natasha Singer has covered A.I. in schools for more than a decade.

Feb. 23, 2026, 5:02 a.m. ET

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Which other groups are shaping A.I. education?

Some researchers and nonprofit groups are backing broader education efforts covering an array of related societal issues. Among them, the Kapor Center, a nonprofit in Oakland, Calif., recommends that students assess A.I. safety risks and examine tech industry power dynamics, including the companies profiting most from A.I.

These experts are urging schools to help students gain a technical understanding of A.I. as well as skills to investigate the consequences of the latest technologies.

The Computer Science Teachers Association, a nonprofit with nearly 10,000 teachers as members, recently revised its national learning standards to include a new proposed student skill: identifying how products like A.I. prioritize different values, such as promoting user engagement over accuracy or human civility.

“Students need to be able to make informed decisions about when and how A.I. tools are used — both in their own work and also when A.I. is used on them, as citizens who are entering a world where more and more decisions about their lives will be made by machines,” said Jake Baskin, the executive director of the Computer Science Teachers Association.

What have we learned from past tech literacy campaigns?

Take social media literacy. The programs have helped some young people more easily identify certain online hazards. But tech literacy efforts are generally not designed to curb underlying risks like predators and sextortion, problems that regulators and lawmakers have long pressed tech companies to address.

In 2017, Google introduced a free digital citizenship curriculum called “Be Internet Awesome.” The gamelike lessons, featuring colorful virtual worlds like “Reality River,” asked students to distinguish between facts and misinformation or to make choices about how they shared their personal information online.

The intent was to help students become more alert, safer and kinder online. More than 100 million children have since tried the lessons, according to a Google blog post in 2024.

But a study of the digital citizenship game, involving more than 1,000 fourth to sixth graders, found mixed results.

Students who were randomly assigned to the Google lessons showed better knowledge of concepts like “catfishing” and approaches to handling online problems like mean behavior, according to the study, which was published in 2023 in Contemporary School Psychology, a peer-reviewed journal.

The Google lessons, however, did not reduce mean online behaviors like cyberbullying or improve children’s online kindness or their data privacy practices, the study said.

Google did not respond to a request for comment.

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「人工智能素養」正在學校興起。原因何在？ （2/2）

人工智能公司正敦促教師們讓學生為「人工智能驅動的未來」做好準備。但具體意義因學校而異。

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還有哪些團體正在塑造人工智能教育？

一些研究人員和非營利組織正在支持更廣泛的教育工作，涵蓋一系列相關的社會議題。其中，位於加州奧克蘭的非營利組織卡珀中心建議學生評估人工智能的安全風險，並研究科技業的權力動態，包括哪些公司從人工智能中獲利最多。

這些專家敦促學校幫助學生掌握人工智能的技術知識，以及掌握去研究最新科技所帶來之影響的技能。

電腦科學教師協會，作為一個擁有近萬名教師會員的非營利組織，近期修訂了其國家學習標準，新增了一項學生技能：識別人工智能等產品是如何考慮不同價值的優先次序，例如，優先提升用戶參與度而犧牲準確性或維護人類文明。

電腦科學教師協會執行董事Jake Baskin表示:「學生需要能夠就何時以及如何使用人工智能工具做出明智的決定 - 無論是在他們自己的學習中，還是在人工智能被用於他們自身上。作為公民，我們即將進入一個世界有越來越多自身生活的決策是由機器做出來的」。

我們從以往的科技素養宣傳活動中學到了什麼？

以社交媒體的素養為例。這些項目幫助一些年輕人更容易識別某些網路風險。但科技素養宣傳活動通常並非設計出來去遏制諸如網路掠食者和性勒索等潛在風險，而監管機構和立法者長期以來一直敦促科技公司解決這些問題。

2017年，Google推出了一套名為「Be Internet Awesome」（做個網路醒目人）的免費數位公民課程。這套遊戲化的課程以色彩繽紛的虛擬世界例如 “Reality River” 為特色，旨在引導學生區分事實與虛假信息，或他們如何在線上分享個人信息時去作出選擇。

其目的是幫助學生提高網路安全意識，變得更加謹慎和友善。根據Google2024年發佈的一篇博文，已有超過1億名兒童體驗過這套課程。

然而，一項針對1000多名四至六年級學生的關於這套數位公民課程的研究卻得出了參差的結論。

研究發表於同儕審查期刊《當代學校心理學》（Contemporary School Psychology），研究發現，隨機分配到Google課程的學生對「網路釣魚」等概念的理解更透徹，也更善於應對諸如惡意行為等網路議題。

但研究指出，Google課程並沒有減少網路霸凌等惡意行為，也沒有提升兒童的網路友善度或資料隱私保護意識。

谷歌未回應置評請求。

              So, tech giants in the US such as Google, Microsoft and OpenAI are urging schools to teach the latest topic: A.I. literacy. The U.S. government has issued A.I. education guidelines to ensure “all American workers are able to share in the prosperity that A.I. will create for our economy.” But tech literacy efforts are generally not designed to curb underlying risks like predators and sextortion. Apparently, more practical training and education are needed in order to equip students to face the day-to-day challenge in the world of AI that is developing rapidly.