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Edtech Throwdown

Episode 198: Educators as AI Guides: Crafting Resources for Families and Communities

Welcome to the EdTech Throwdown.  This is Episode 198 called Educators as AI Guides: Crafting Resources for Families and Communities.  In this episode, we will walk through a step by step process that educators can follow for creating AI resources that are not just for staff and students, but the community as a whole.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

Segment 1: 

We are concluding a 3 year journey that has attempted to establish AI policy, share the ai policy with staff and students, teach staff about ai, teach students about ai, and the final phase … teaching the community.

One thing that still surprises me is the number of people (usually adults) who don’t use AI.  Maybe they disagree with it, maybe they don’t know where to go or what to do, or maybe they just don’t care.  But everyone has a stake in at least knowing what these tools are capable of.

A local library reached out to the school district and asked if we would collaborate on creating, sharing and presenting resources from the school so that the community could learn from them AND be aware of what schools are doing with AI.

This is our journey, laid out in a step-by-step manner so that it might help others trying to accomplish the same thing.

Segment 2:

1. Establish policy at the highest levels possible (board, superintendent, etc).
2. Must start here so you have a legally backed document to fall back on
3. This can be slow and painful
4. Start identifying the stakeholder’s opinions
5. Teachers,
6. Students
7. Administrators
8. Parents
9. Have a focus group to help with wordsmithing
10. Identify proper use/misuse
11. Establish an “AI director” for the district
12. Not a new position, someone who already has a tech role
13. This person is responsible for maintaining and updating the resources and plan that follows
14. This person may also want to recruit a small team to help them build out and present the materials (tech coaches, media specialists, etc)
15. Create a...