Early in the morning on November 30th, 2022, a new chatbot was released to the internet by a small research non-profit by the name of OpenAI, this chatbot was of course what we now know as ChatGPT. In less than 5 days the website attracted more than a million active users, becoming the fastest growing website in the entire history of the internet. The majority of those users? Students.

Personally I have always been interested in technology, and I remember following OpenAIs progress way before ChatGPT was released. One of the things that really got me interested in coding, was actually making a chatbot inspired by Jarvis from Iron Man when I was 10. From the moment I saw the first developer preview of ChatGPT, I knew that it was going to be groundbreaking in education, the thing I didn’t realize back then tho? How incredibly quickly it would be distributed and improved.

And this is exactly the problem, schools and teachers are having an incredibly hard time keeping up with the rapid development of AI. And this with a good reason, AI technologies are improving at insane speeds and are becoming available for free for everyone. We have never in the history of humankind had technology evolving so quickly.

My capstone project goes into how we can help schools to integrate AI into their curriculum. I want to figure out how K-12 schools can successfully implement AI in their classrooms in a way that effectively teaches AI literacy and utilization to allow students to be successful in a world with AI in its center, while still preserving students' creativity and authentic learning.