What do educators and parents need to know about AI in schools and at home? How can adults have conversations with children about the use of AI? What policies should schools have when it comes to AI use? And what do you do when a child uses AI to cheat? Journalist Jill Barshay of the Hechinger Report interviews Lalitha Vasudevan, Vice Dean of Digital Innovation at the Digital Futures Institute at Teachers College, Columbia University, and Amanda Lenhart, researcher and Senior Fellow at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. They discuss the many ways we could be using AI in education and beyond, the questions we could be asking young people about their AI use, and how we can play a role in shaping how all this unfolds.

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