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How AI is impacting acquisition
With the emergence of artificial intelligence, advocates accidental it tin beryllium a adjuvant instrumentality for kids and teachers — but others accidental it discourages students from captious thinking.
Many educators person been teaching themselves however to usage AI. For Jerome Ong, a 5th people teacher successful Ridgewood, New Jersey, AI has changed the mode helium approaches teaching. He present uses AI tools each week successful his classroom.
"You person to find what works for your students," helium said.
Ong not lone teaches his students what AI is — but besides wherever it falls short.
"If you support astatine it and say, 'no, you're wrong. You're wrong' — yet AI volition say, 'I'm sorry, I was wrong.' Doing that with your people tin amusement you that AI isn't truly arsenic astute arsenic you deliberation it is," Ong said.
Training teachers to usage AI
This summer, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic announced a first-of-its-kind program to bid hundreds of thousands of members of the American Federation of Teachers, the country's second-largest teachers' union.
"I deliberation if we're going to marque AI enactment for students, for kids, we request to perceive to teachers," said Microsoft president Brad Smith.
The $23 cardinal concern volition spell toward virtual and in-person grooming successful New York City. The AFT national president said the transportation "between a teacher and their kids tin ne'er beryllium replaced by caller technologies, but if we larn however to acceptable communal consciousness guardrails, teaching and learning tin beryllium enhanced."
"It can, I think, alteration the mode teachers enactment successful ways that empower teachers, gives them much information, makes it easier successful presumption of preparing for classes, reasoning astir however to enactment unneurotic acquisition plans," Smith said.
In a caller survey by Gallup and Walton Family Foundation, teachers reported redeeming an mean of astir six hours a week with the assistance of AI.
Ong said if AI is already here, "let's effort to fig this retired to assistance our kids proceed to larn and grow."
However, critics mention cheating concerns and Microsoft's ain research, which showed a self-reported diminution successful captious reasoning skills erstwhile AI was not utilized responsibly.
"This is simply a mode to get profits," said erstwhile precocious schoolhouse teacher and AFT subordinate Lois Weiner.
She thinks teachers would beryllium amended served by much enactment wrong schools than by an confederation with Silicon Valley.
"There is truthful overmuch drudgery successful the job, but the reply to that is to amended the conditions of teachers' work," said Weiner, adding that AI does not execute improving enactment conditions for teachers.
Smith said yet acquisition should beryllium near to teachers, "those of america successful the tech assemblage request to supply the tools and empower the schoolhouse boards and districts and teachers truthful they determine however to enactment those tools successful practice."
Changes successful policy
CBS News analyzed shifts successful AI policies successful the country's largest 20 schoolhouse districts betwixt 2023 and 2025.
The investigation recovered that portion immoderate territory policies were unclear successful 2023 oregon did not initially artifact the usage of AI, determination is present guidance connected however it tin beryllium utilized successful the classroom.
The information tin beryllium recovered below.
Nancy Chen is simply a CBS News correspondent, reporting crossed each broadcasts and platforms. Prior to joining CBS News, Chen was a weekday anchor and newsman astatine WJLA-TV successful Washington, D.C. She joined WJLA-TV from WHDH-TV successful Boston, wherever she spent 5 years arsenic a play anchor and weekday reporter.
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