Existing K-12 computing standards give AI minimal coverage¶

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q2 i? The CSTA K-12 Computing Standards contain only two sentences about AI, both in the 11-12 grade band, leaving little guidance for teaching AI at the K-12 level. → Touretzky 2019

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Touretzky 2019¶

Touretzky, D.; Gardner-McCune, C.; Martin, F.; and Seehorn, D. (2019). Envisioning AI for K-12: What Should Every Child Know about AI? The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19). https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33019795

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Document analysis of the CSTA K-12 Computing Standards (2017) finds minimal AI content: "there are only two sentences about AI", both in the 11-12 grade band. The authors use this to argue there is little guidance for teaching AI at the K-12 level despite AI's growing societal impact.

"In the new CSTA K -12 Computing Standards, there are only two sentences about AI. Both standards appear in the 11 -12 grade band (CSTA 2017)."

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