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AI Masterclass: Empowering educators, igniting innovation

A 360-degree AI Intro for HBCU educators and administrators

Empowering education through AI: A comprehensive learning series

Setting the stage: Introduction

At Deloitte, we recognize the immense value in fostering a diverse workforce to remain at the forefront of the AI revolution and to continue delivering exceptional value to our clients and society. AI literacy and education is particularly crucial for HBCUs to help bridge the digital divide, foster diversity in AI development, pave the way for lucrative job opportunities, stimulate innovative research, and revolutionize educational delivery. This AI masterclass provides an overview of key concepts that educators and administrators can apply to innovate and enhance their learning delivery, while helping students prepare for the workplace of the future.

Working with Strada Education Foundation

Strada Education Foundation is dedicated to enhancing the link between higher education and opportunities in the United States, primarily focusing on assisting individuals facing significant hurdles.

As part of its HBCU Initiative, the Strada team contributed toward the shaping of the curriculum, the selection of HBCU schools to participate in the pilot and official launch, and the communication and rollout process.

Aminta Breaux, PhD, president of Bowie State University, and Marshall Grigsby, PhD, co-chair of Strada HBCU Advisory Council, engaged in a fireside chat (see “Setting the stage: Introduction” and “Looking forward: Shaping tomorrow with AI at HBCUs”) as part of the training to start the dialog around how to apply learnings.

Learn more about the Strada Education Foundation
 

Five modules designed for educators and administrators

Cracking the code: Understanding AI fundamentals

This module breaks down the complexity of AI into digestible examples and analogies, helping to bring the theoretical concepts of AI to life by highlighting key applications and industry disruptions. It includes an AI intro, a timeline of how AI has evolved, the key components and different elements of AI, and an overview of data types and their use cases.

Feeling the impact: Implications of AI/education use cases

This module provides an overview of how Generative AI applies to higher education, with potential applications for students, faculty, and administrators. It also covers the unique context of HBCUs and how to tailor AI solutions to them and promote diversity in AI. It includes an overview of potential applications in Higher Education, a review of key advantages of AI, identification of the primary bias risks inherent with AI, and the importance of AI literacy, education, and initiatives to increase representation.

Fostering innovation, ensuring trust: Ethical AI

This module covers Deloitte’s seven-part Trustworthy AI™ framework, highlighting the importance and role of each portion in designing an ethical and healthy AI system that fosters diversity in AI. It includes a description of what constitutes trust in AI development and application, the need for trust to reach AI’s greatest potential and reduce risk, an overview of different domains in the Trustworthy AI™ framework, and the role of AI governance and implications for regulatory compliance.

Fostering innovation, achieving compliance: Legal landscape

This module introduces key legal topics and sets the stage for a series of AI masterclass debates in which actors representing personas from both sides (e.g., the “Business Person” and the “Artist”) will demonstrate the duality and complexity of these topics. It includes background on copyright law and its applications, an overview of privacy law and data subject rights, an analysis of pursuing AI development and the risks of misusing the technology, and takeaways on what to expect given the fluid nature of many AI legal topics.

Future of work: The impact of AI on the workforce

This module presents key statistics and concepts of how AI is transforming work. It sheds light on a recent “Prompt-a-thon” that uncovered innovative use cases for using AI tools. Important skills students should prioritize are also addressed. It includes findings about how AI is impacting the workforce/workplace, common questions and challenges facing organizations, obstacles that organizations will encounter in embedding AI into their DNA, and opportunities for equipping the workforce with a comprehensive AI intro and AI-related skills.

Conclusion 

Looking forward: Shaping tomorrow with AI at HBCUs

This module will tie together common themes from the training and encourage participants to enhance their capabilities. This conclusory video highlights upcoming opportunities to engage in AI Masterclass Peer Circle sessions to share experiences, successes, and challenges.

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