The Consortium for School Networking highlights generative artificial intelligence in its 2024 Driving K–12 Innovation report. Here’s how schools are currently approaching the technology.
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The Consortium for School Networking highlights generative artificial intelligence in its 2024 Driving K–12 Innovation report. Here’s how schools are currently approaching the technology.
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"My first thought is this – after a year of diving down the educational AI rabbit hole I’ve come to the conclusion – AI Won’t Transform Education…"
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"The main barrier is the assessment system. We still rely on an assessment modality that has remained largely unchanged since the Victorian era."
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As organizations onboard more and more AI-powered solutions, it’s more important than ever before to educate and train employees to be AI savvy.
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"Algorithms remove the bias blind spot because you see algorithms more like you see other people than yourself."
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"While there's a lot you can do to extend your team's capacity and improve efficiency without technology, AI-powered tools are an increasingly powerful way to accomplish more with less."
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"We're inundated with messages about how to automate, boost efficiency, and streamline processes—often by using emerging tools powered by AI (artificial intelligence). In these days of shrinking budgets and headcounts, as more employees need re- and upskilling, efficiency is indeed prized."
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"Despite its popularity, research has shown that basing instruction on the traditional learning styles is not effective in improving learning outcomes. In addition, people’s preferences change with context, task, and experience. Fixed labels don’t accurately capture those differences."
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K–12 schools can no longer stand on the sidelines with AI. They must make professional development around the emerging technology a priority.
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"The Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology recently produced a report noting that teachers play a critical role in the AI revolution: 'Teachers and other people must be ‘in the loop’ whenever AI is applied in order to notice patterns and automate educational processes. We call upon all constituents to adopt Humans-in-the-Loop as a key criteria.'”
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"The lack of physical proximity between the instructor and learners in an online course creates unique challenges for instructors to connect with their learners."
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"Instructor presence (a component of both teaching and social presence) focuses on how the instructor establishes their embodied self, leadership style, and means of rapport with their learners"
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At a time when parents are concerned screen time, a walk outside with a podcast playing could be a practical and important step forward.
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"Artificial intelligence has the potential to personalize education, so more students enter and graduate college."
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"Since the public release of generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and countless other models less than a year ago, debate has swirled among educators about their potential to transform learning and upend traditional teaching norms."
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"As a teacher it can read text, recognise images and video, just like a real teacher."
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"GPT4o is better than GPT4 and hammers other models. It is also faster and smarter across text, vision and audio, truly multimodal."
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"New data shows most employees are experimenting with AI and growing their skills — now, the job of every leader is to channel this experimentation into business impact"
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"2024 is the year AI at work gets real. Use of generative AI at work has nearly doubled in the past six months."
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"GPT-4o’s improved voice and faster response times made it feel like you’re talking to a real-life tutor standing over your shoulder, guiding you without revealing too much."
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"OpenAI and Google showed us that AI won't kill learning"
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"TikTok says its efforts are an attempt to combat misinformation from being spread on its social media platform."
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"The move is part of an overall effort by those in the technology industry to provide more safeguards for AI usage."
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Districts playing catch up can still adopt sound policies for AI
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"When it comes to digital technology, educators and school systems haven’t historically been fleet of foot. But artificial intelligence is partially bucking the trend. Many teachers are embracing it, even as school systems follow form and are moving slowly, or barely at all."
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"The pace of technological change is relentless. Here are two important ways to ensure your upskilling strategy keeps pace."
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"Since 2023 the attention of much of the tech world and corporate aspiration has been around artificial intelligence (AI). However, that is only one of the important strategic priorities for organizations in the next five-to-seven years."
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Generative AI will increase loneliness and negatively impact well-being. Yet, if we learn from our past, we can make different trade-offs for better health.
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"As with all innovations, there will be trade-offs. Each time we trade an interaction with AI for a speedy response, we trade-off something else with it. We lose the opportunity to connect with another person."
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As educators, we cannot afford to delay providing instruction on appropriate use of artificial intelligence platforms to our students. Doing so places them at a significant disadvantage as they enter college and/or the workforce.
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Courses will cover topics including mathematics, computing, machine learning, applications of AI, and large-scale data sets, with the goal of preparing students to influence policies and fill jobs that don't yet exist.
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"It is the more fundamental fact that, unable to have a real relationship with users, AI will, at best, only be able to mimic or fake its way through conversation."
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Guidance released by the Future of Privacy Forum clarifies best practices for districts looking to implement the emerging technology.
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"The Future of Privacy Forum notes there are over 128 state student privacy laws that schools need to keep an eye out for when procuring AI ed tech." |
"CoSN defines a tech enabler as a tool that schools can use to surmount hurdles — roadblocks forcing schools to slow down or make a leap — and leverage accelerators, the “mega trends” that motivate and increase the speed of innovation."