Artificial intelligence is an increasingly prevalent part of our everyday lives. From live-updating, turn-by-turn driving directions to responsive voice-controlled digital assistants—all in the palms of our hands—we are constantly interacting with computer programming where machines learn from experience and adjust to new data to perform human-like tasks.

For children growing up right now, AI will undoubtedly be a part of their future lives and jobs. It impacts every field of study in education. So, it’s critical that students understand computational thinking and know how machine learning works.

“It’s important that kids leave our classrooms with real-world knowledge and industry-standard software and technical experience under their belt,” says Teresa Blizman-Schmitt, a sixth through eighth grade computer science and business education teacher in Vernon, CT. She has always made it a point to ensure that kids leave her classes with transferable workplace skills. Recently, she completed the AI Explorations and Their Practical Use in School Environments professional learning program by ISTE and General Motors to learn how to compellingly integrate AI education into her lessons.

Here, Blizman-Schmitt describes how the program gave her practical, multimodal ways to teach students about artificial intelligence and explore the future of work.

Read the full article about AI exploration by Diana Lee at EdSurge.