There is lots of debate and discussion about Artificial intelligence (AI) in many settings including education.
“AI has been a part of education for years, but the introduction of generative AI has brought AI to the forefront of conversations about the future of education since the November 2022 release of ChatGPT. This release, followed by many other generative AI tools, has created a boom of interest in the use of these technologies with educators and students, as well as concerns about their misuse.
Generative AI tools are artificial intelligence tools that generate text, images, audio, video, and code based on what it has learned in its training data set. When presented with a prompt by the user, the model then predicts a response. While each response is new, the model pulls from the data it analyzed in the training phase and transforms it into a response based on the user input or prompt. The recent proliferation of generative AI has been remarkable in its unprecedented pace, which has been more rapid than any other technological innovation in history. The acceptance and use of generative AI tools is inevitable and businesses and institutions of higher learning will expect our students to have generative AI skills. Therefore, the ways in which public schools address generative AI has serious implications for both the future of education and for today’s students.” (North Carolina AI Guidelines)
Our district is beginning to explore the use of AI as a teaching and learning tool. We will try to provide information about the process and what we are discovering.