Artificial intelligence is increasingly present across classrooms, used by students, teachers, principals, and administrators. Schools are adopting AI to personalize instruction, provide translation support, generate materials, and save teachers time. Some schools have developed formal AI policies that define permitted uses for both staff and students. Educators emphasize teaching prompt-writing and digital literacy as part of college and career readiness. Detection tools and plagiarism software are being employed to identify AI-generated work, while experts note that students continually devise ways to circumvent safeguards. Balancing opportunity and risk drives school-level AI strategies and practices.
Last September, David Banks closed his final state-of-our-schools address as chancellor by embracing a once-taboo topic in public education. "AI can analyze in real time all the work our children are doing in school," Banks said. Less than a year later, AI is all over the place, and keeping it out of classrooms is unrealistic, if not impossible. That's why schools like United Charter High School for the Humanities II in the Bronx have decided that embracing the technology is the only way to safely corral it.
"Because I'm not fluent in all languages that students might speak, I have the opportunity, through AI, to create individual slides," visual arts teacher Marquitta Pope said. "There's a huge opportunity to save time for teachers and prepare kids for college and career," Principal David Neagley said. "Part of being college- and career-ready in our world is making sure they know how to write an effective prompt." The charter school created its own AI policy -- what's allowed and what's not -- for both teachers and students.
AI is, after all, designed to sound human. So how do teachers know if humans wrote the papers they're grading? "Students are very innovative. They're always finding ways around it," said Alon Yamin, co-founder and CEO of Copyleaks, an AI-detection software company used by more than 300 educational institutions to detect AI and plagiarism in students' work.
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