{"id":1821,"date":"2025-04-15T11:50:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/tip\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2025-04-15T11:50:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:50:53","slug":"ai-spark-tips-how-ai-ready-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/tip\/ai-spark-tips-how-ai-ready-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Spark Tips: How AI Ready Are You?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New AI tools emerge every day. A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ASABxNenD_U?si=cAF9jv9KxB9KUDBy\">Y Combinator podcast <\/a>claims that 5 new Agentic AI companies will arise for every cloud-based application we use today. No conventional human could ever keep up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s tool encourages us to take a pause and reflect on how ready we are for the onslaught of opportunities we find in Generative AI and related apps. The approximately 20-minute <a href=\"https:\/\/usask.libwizard.com\/id\/1659492491849dc6ae30a5db0e7c238a\">AI Knowledge Check<\/a> created by the University of Saskatchewan provides a guided tune-up of AI literacy skills. This Knowledge Check can serve as a launching point to open a class unit about AI ethics or a research-based project where you may or may not encourage students to use AI. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bonus Tip: Throughout the AI Knowledge Check tool, users are introduced to tips and resources about &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.usask.ca\/LearningWithTechnologyToolkit\/being_AI_literate\">Being AI Literate<\/a>.&#8221; These resources include the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/academic-skills-kit\/information-and-digital-skills\/ai-literacy\/thinking-critically\/\">ROBOT Checklist for responsible AI<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/ark:\/48223\/pf0000391105\/PDF\/391105eng.pdf.multi\">UNESCO AI Competency Framework for Students<\/a>, tips for evaluating GenAI Outputs, and an overview of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interaction-design.org\/literature\/topics\/human-centered-ai?srsltid=AfmBOor1Dvbrns8DhFiUNvpmxzed_zGBMCy9V7eNOFaycqONt4NJzi_E\">Human-Centered AI<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"249\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/tip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/How-AI-Ready-Are-You.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the AI Knowledge Check site at the University of Saskatchewan Library\" class=\"wp-image-1823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/tip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/How-AI-Ready-Are-You.png 624w, https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/tip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/How-AI-Ready-Are-You-300x120.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New AI tools emerge every day. A recent Y Combinator podcast claims that 5 new Agentic AI companies will arise for every cloud-based application we use today. No conventional human could ever keep up. Today&#8217;s tool encourages us to take a pause and reflect on how ready we are for the onslaught of opportunities we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/tip\/ai-spark-tips-how-ai-ready-are-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI Spark Tips: How AI Ready Are You?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genai"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/tip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AI-Generated-image-of-Generative-AI-for-Higher-Education-1200.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/tip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/tip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/tip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/tip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/tip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/tip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/tip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/tip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/tip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/tip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/tip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}