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Canada’s AI strategy needs educators who feel prepared, not just trained

The Conversation · 🇦🇺 public Australia · · 1031 words · By Cheryl Lee-Yow; Emily Luo; Lydia Scholle-Cotton
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What to know about Canada’s AI strategy needs educators who feel prepared, not just trained

Doctoral students in education describe their research project, the GenAI-dentity Survey and Workshop, which explores the comfort levels of Canadian educators regarding generative AI. The authors argue that AI literacy should move beyond technical training to include emotional and ethical reflection to better support both teachers and students.

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What happened

The Canadian government recently introduced AI for All, a national artificial intelligence strategy that has two focuses: building trust and creating opportunity.

Why it matters

As Canada invests in AI literacy and adoption, schools and post-secondary institutions can play a central role in ensuring that future generations are prepared to discern appropriate, effective and ethical uses of the technology.

Common ground

Over the past year and a half, as doctoral students in education, we have worked with more than 800 educators from schools, universities and professional learning settings to explore how they understand, discuss and respond to generative AI.

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Doctoral students in education describe their research project, the GenAI-dentity Survey and Workshop, which explores the comfort levels of Canadian educators regarding generative AI. The authors argue that AI literacy should move beyond technical training to include emotional and ethical reflection to better support both teachers and students.

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Claim 1: “it’s been supported by our academic mentors and professors: Saad Chahine and Pamela Beach here at Queen’s University.”
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The REEDAI project page explicitly thanks Saad Chahine and Pamela Beach for support and mentorship. Additionally, a web search confirms Saad Chahine is a professor at Queen's University.
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web search NEUTRAL — How to Use ChatGPT Projects and Skills for More Creative Ideation. The GenAI Nerd Channel by Prof.
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web search NEUTRAL — Saad Chahine. Queen's University | QueensU · Faculty of Education.This article examines the outcomes of the ACEE program, which is a one-year transition program for youth with disabilities, preparing …
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web search NEUTRAL — GenAI-dentity Survey.Saad Chahine and Pamela Beach, for all the support, guidance, and mentorship throughout the development of this project.
https://www.reedai.ca/home/genaidentity
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Claim 2: “Our experience with educators led to the development of the GenAI-dentity Survey and Workshop project”
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The claim is confirmed by multiple independent web sources, including a Yahoo News Canada article and the REEDAI project page, both stating that experience with educators led to the GenAI-dentity Survey and Workshop project.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following scientific events occurred in 2023.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — These datasets are used in machine learning (ML) research and have been cited in peer-reviewed academic journals. Datasets are an integral part of the field of machine learning. Major advances in this…
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web search NEUTRAL — Drawing on student interviews, observations, and survey data, it examines how GenAI technologies are influencing various aspects of writing, including revision practices, writing confidence, and writi…
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Claim 3: “The Canadian government recently introduced AI for All, a national artificial intelligence strategy that has two focuses: building trust and creating opportunity.”
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The claim is repeated in a cross-reference (Phys), but no independent news sources, official government websites, or Wikipedia entries confirm the existence of a national strategy specifically named 'AI for All' with these two focuses. The provided web results are irrelevant (Google Reminders, Outlook).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — AI slop, also known as slop content or simply slop, is digital content made with generative artificial intelligence that is perceived as lacking in effort, quality, or meaning, and usually produced in…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The artificial intelligence industry in Canada is a rapidly expanding sector. Although Canada held a pioneering role in the early development of artificial intelligence, transforming research excellen…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cohere Inc. is a Canadian multinational technology company focused on artificial intelligence. Cohere specializes in large language models and AI products for regulated industries, particularly the fi…
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Claim 4: “our project uses four comfort personas, or “sparks:” Traditional Thinker, Puddle Jumper, Curious Explorer and Deep Diver.”
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The use of the four specific personas (Traditional Thinker, Puddle Jumper, Curious Explorer, and Deep Diver) is confirmed by both the cross-reference (Phys) and the Yahoo News Canada article.
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web search NEUTRAL — A tool for reflection. For those who do complete the survey, our project uses four comfort personas, or “sparks:” Traditional Thinker, Puddle Jumper, Curious Explorer and Deep Diver. An owl, frog, fox…
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web search NEUTRAL — Designed to spark curiosity, comfort, and conversation, this study explores how educators see themselves in a world increasingly shaped by generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI).
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web search NEUTRAL — Create and share simple applications by training your own machine learning image classifier.
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Claim 5: “This book chapter, “The Generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) Comfort Spectrum: Navigating the Role of genAI Through Self-Assessment to Support Educator Growth,” is part of the Handbook of Theory and Research in Digital Media and Education.”
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The existence of the book chapter and its publication in the 'Handbook of Theory and Research in Digital Media and Education' is confirmed by both the cross-reference (Phys) and Yahoo News Canada.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The philosophy of artificial intelligence is a branch of the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of computer science that explores artificial intelligence and its implications for knowledge and unde…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Generative design is an iterative design process that uses software to generate outputs that fulfill a set of constraints iteratively adjusted by a designer. Whether a human, test program, or artifici…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In artificial intelligence, an intelligent agent is an entity that perceives its environment, takes actions autonomously to achieve goals, and may improve its performance through machine learning or b…
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Claim 6: “So far, more than 800 educators have filled out our survey”
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The fact that more than 800 educators filled out the survey is confirmed by both the cross-reference (Phys) and an independent web search result from Yahoo News Canada.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sophocles' Ajax, or Aias ( or ; Ancient Greek: Αἴας [a͜í.aːs], gen. Αἴαντος), is a Greek tragedy written in the 5th century BCE. Ajax may be the earliest of Sophocles' seven tragedies to have survived…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — No Kings protests (also called No Kings 2 and No Kings Day 2.0) took place on October 18, 2025, as part of a series of demonstrations taking place largely in the United States against Donald Trump's p…
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Claim 7: “Over the past year and a half... we have worked with more than 800 educators from schools, universities and professional learning settings to explore how they understand, discuss and respond to generative AI.”
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The claim describes the specific activities of the authors. While other web results discuss generative AI in education, none independently corroborate that these specific authors worked with over 800 educators over the last 18 months.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — AI warfare refers to the use of artificial intelligence technologies to automate military operation and enhance or bypass human decision-making in armed conflicts. AI is used to rapidly analyze large …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alice AI is a neural network family developed by the Russian company Yandex LLC. Alice AI can create and revise texts, generate new ideas and capture the context of the conversation with the user. Ali…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Z.AI Co., Ltd., branded internationally as Z.ai, is a Chinese artificial intelligence company; their flagship product is the GLM (General Language Model) family of open weights large language models (…
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