Board of Ed for April: artificial intelligence task force

 there's a memo here
Tutwiler notes that it is a K-12 specifically, not the Governor's task force
"establish a shared understanding of AI"
"just the beginning...continue to explore the topic and engage with stakeholders"

Jackie Gantzer, Director of school support and edtech
"your perspective today will be invaluable"
want to be clear that this work and presentation is focused on generative AI
marks a shift from reactive and predictive
"uses pre existing data sets to create new content"
(the pre existing data sets, of course, are other people's work)
introduces a host of 
"began by listening to our communities" they did?
using for planning, assessment, grading
"inconsistency with which it is being used...quality, safety, and effectiveness"
student exposure varies drastically from teacher to teacher 
"is it this okay? why? for who?"
"some direction from the state" on use
"promoting a more consistent, informed approach to AI in education"
focus on recommendation 
"support improved experiences for historically underserved students"
"wide variety" on task force, looking at roles and personally identity markers
"truly represented the needs and realities of diverse school communities"
it's kinda wild how removed this is from "hey, there are so many ways this is very much a bad thing for us to do"
heard about hopes, engage with real world
negative impacts on instruction and learning, "ethic implications of AI"
difficult to 
"comparing it to scissors": at some point, we as educators looked scissors, that even though they're dangerous, it's more beneficial for everyone to use it
what is the parallel for not running with scissors
that is remarkably dismissive of the massive issues with this technology
three categories: 

• resource creation and curation
  
• professional development
• policy supports (which as per usual, seems to think that districts develop their own local policies and that somehow the state needs to "support" that)

"we know many schools are already on their way with this work" existing pre-existing resources
"a lot of work still to be done"
task force ongoing: monitor impact of work

asks: biggest risks and gaps? asks for promising efforts?
"truly has the potential to redefine a lot about the school experience" but is being implemented very unevenly
"can be a state leader"

Hills: involvement of business or industry?
what is this really good for?
Hills says this is a deeply enjoyable presentation, initiatives that DESE can help spearhead and scale it up
"in a way that districts if left to their own devices would not be able to"

Stewart: impact level that we're just beginning to understand, for awareness and discussion, of course, and impact
"fears seem pretty...they don't seem unusual"
curious about teacher support, educator support going forward
inequities in access to information
Gantzer: "developing materials to develop AI literacy": knowledge and understanding about AI
make information more widely available "given its prominence in our world"
there's a real lack of thinking about the framework of who has made it prominence and why
Stewart: bias which is a real problem already
"I've embraced it in my work"
"have scraped all information since whenever it has been...there's definitely bias"
digital footprint awareness
Paula Moore: have both digital literacy standards and computer science
already encompass things like bias "really looking at it with a critical eye"
"what is their data and how do they keep their data private and how do they not feed into that algorithm"
wait we want them to use it but we don't want them to contribute to it, because we want their data and work to be private? Do we see the conflict here?
Craven: giving voice to students who are voiceless
"be mindful of the positives of technology in the classroom"
opportunities for different kinds of learning