It's time for the education system to make a choice: continue to ignore the importance of teaching kids and teens how to navigate technological innovation OR try to prepare them for constant and rapid technological innovation. Nowhere is this now more critical than when it comes to AI. Fail to teach kids to understand how it works, form ethical behavior around it and use it responsibly and schools will undo a lot of the benefits

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NewTechKids ended up making some important last-minute changes to our digital literacy programs for primary school students at Wereldwijs Primary School in Amsterdam Southeast. Why? The explosion of generative AI. In their article "Teaching Digital Literacy is a 21st Century Imperative & This is Why", Miah Daughtery and Laura B. Hansen write "In classrooms, digital literacy enables students to access information in new ways and then communicate what has been learned with others, giving students

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