Foundational Gen AI Literacy and Skills for All Students, Teachers and Educators
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Summary
This question concerns the Ministry of Education's efforts to ensure students and educators acquire foundational literacy and skills in generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI). Mr Patrick Tay Teck Guan asked the Minister for Education about measuring these competencies and identifying "Gen AI hallucinations" to improve readiness for an increasingly AI-driven workforce. Minister Desmond Lee responded that AI literacy is integrated into the curriculum and enrichment like the Code for Fun programme to teach critical thinking regarding AI biases. Teachers also receive guidance on the ethical and pedagogical considerations of AI use to manage its risks and limitations in an age-appropriate manner. The Ministry will continue monitoring the evolving technology to determine how best to measure AI literacy in the future.
Transcript
38 Mr Patrick Tay Teck Guan asked the Minister for Education whether the Ministry has any plans to measure and ensure that all students, teachers and educators acquire foundational literacy and skills in generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI), including how to identify false or misleading information produced by Gen AI, also known as "Gen AI hallucinations", to improve their competency in an increasingly Gen AI-driven workforce.
Mr Desmond Lee: The Ministry of Education (MOE) develops students' and teachers' foundational artificial intelligence (AI) literacy and skills in generative AI (GenAI) in a number of ways.
Students develop digital competencies, like digital safety and security; and digital knowledge currency, which has been updated to include AI literacies, such as to think critically about AI's biases, question AI outputs and to discern and identify false or misleading information produced by AI. These are developed through the curriculum, co-curriculum and other enrichment opportunities, such as in cyber wellness lessons and AI literacy modules in the Code for Fun programme in primary and secondary schools.
Teachers also have opportunities to attain foundational knowledge of AI. They are provided with guidance on the ethical and pedagogical considerations on AI use to understand its associated risks and limitations, and to use AI effectively and in an age-appropriate manner.
As GenAI and, correspondingly, what constitutes AI literacy is still evolving, MOE will continue to monitor developments and consider how best to measure AI literacy in due course.