K-12 schools across the Commonwealth are partnering with artificial intelligence in the classrooms. Officials said teachers are utilizing A.I. in ways that can save them about six weeks of planning per school year.
Marty Park, Chief Digital Officer at the Office of Education Technology, said utilizing artificial intelligence can help teachers build lesson plans, activities, or even create quizzes.
“Partnering with project inspiration. If I, as a classroom teacher, have a great idea for a project; project-based learning number one, is I'm going to do that project first before I work with my students and getting that project inspiration to tweak and partner with an A.I. to help me make it better prior to launching,” said Park.
Park added that including artificial intelligence in responsible use policies is very important.
“The potential is undeniable. Treating it differently than previous emerging technologies, that only hinders the effectiveness and the effective uses and the ready use today in our schools and classrooms. And so, approaching A.I. through the same lenses as we've approached other technologies in our schools is really smart. So, we think that's consistency, that's balance, that's normalization, that's understanding ethical and responsible use to its fullest.”
Education officials compare the uprising of A.I. as something to be harnessed and utilized as it cannot be avoided, much like the use of internet in classrooms.
Additionally, Park says Kentucky will partner with five other states starting in September to launch a professional learning series inside the Kentucky learning hub. Teachers and leaders will be able to interact with learning modules on leveraging AI in safe, secure and responsible ways.