Are Educators Failing Students by Ignoring AI Literacy?

Why AI Literacy Must Begin in the Classroom

True story. Decades ago when the internet was in its infancy, one of my scrawny 8th grade students, Steven, created a fake AOL profile. He misspelled his fake profession as a "rapper," which, triggered a visit from a SWAT team to his house and resulted in a one-year ban from AOL. The astonishment and seriousness of that moment drove home a critical point: we were entering a new digital era unprepared.