AFT: Educator Voice in AI Tool Development and Deployment by Stacie Johnson

What if students had a safe place to practice their language skills without fear?

stacie37 — 2024-08-12 12:27:38 UTC

Idea 1: Allow students to speak to AI in their home language while developing confidence and proficiency

Idea 2: Build AI that allows students to practice sharing ideas in English before sharing out loud.

How do we get training to overwhelmed teachers? AKA- a 1-hour session in the middle of a PD day is not effective

stacie37 — 2024-08-12 12:51:44 UTC

2024-08-12 16:06:32 UTC

We need advocates for school funding. Schools in my state lost 1 to 1 tech because the school lost funding.

2024-08-12 16:07:06 UTC

Comprehensive tk12 scope and sequence designed by educators for CS and AI (National/state)

Bias in AI

2024-08-12 16:07:35 UTC

We have seen bias in AI. How do we correct this (especially since we have our own bias that prevents us from recognizing it sometimes).

Personalization

2024-08-12 16:07:37 UTC

When does AI personalization support student assessment - and when might personalization be harmful (doing what is comfortable but not developmental)?

2024-08-12 16:08:04 UTC

New York State has Ed Law 2d which is intended to protect ppi- this makes it increasingly difficult to utilize any type of platform that isn’t 2d approved by our school districts.

We need to find a way to make it simple

2024-08-12 16:08:23 UTC

How can we make it as simple as possible? there are so many websites, so many companies, none that has a "one size fits all" for every content area and age group. What should be used? Sometimes too much information is OVERWHELMING. What about the educators who are refusing to allow AI into their life?

Access

2024-08-12 16:08:59 UTC

During COVID we realized many students don’t have access to the internet at home. Especially on Indigenous Reservations. How can we improve this?

Real-time

2024-08-12 16:09:21 UTC

Can AI capture and be responsive to societal learning at an individualized level? How can this responsiveness support teachers and their classroom management?

Using AI in current student mental health cisis

2024-08-12 16:09:46 UTC

What are the best strategies for supporting student mental health when some ai use may take some students even further away from connection?

Appropriate Use of AI

2024-08-12 16:09:52 UTC

Helping students use AI to facilitate writing while ensuring they’re writing their own thoughts.

Concerns around non-adoption

2024-08-12 16:10:09 UTC

Personally, our school district has BLOCKED AI tools for students to use, such as ChatGPT, on school computers. Even teachers cannot access these tools without an override. How can we use these tools and teach students how to use these tools if they are not allowed by the district?

Transparency of use

2024-08-12 16:10:24 UTC

Educators need all work generated by ai to have a watermark or provenance marking it as such.

2024-08-12 16:10:57 UTC

Ensuring classrooms have current technology and that there is bandwidth to access AI across the district

What is AI and how’s it different from simple web searches?

2024-08-12 16:12:06 UTC

Educating students about AI tools and what they mean and how they can use them.

SEL

2024-08-12 16:12:42 UTC

Students are often isolated if overly dependent on technology they also face to face communication. There has also been a huge increase in online bullying as well.

Paid time for training

2024-08-12 16:12:54 UTC

Educators must have paid time to become proficient

Calls to Action

2024-08-12 16:13:28 UTC

Requiring AI usage in assessments with clear guidelines to safeguard academic integrity.

Contingent faculty equity

2024-08-12 16:13:47 UTC

At the higher ed level, it’s important to ensure our contingent faculty are able to access the same AI tools as tenure-track faculty. Resources are needed

Access

2024-08-12 16:15:18 UTC

Some students will not have the access to master the tool because consistently working technology is unfortunately still an issue in our district.

Educational Sovereignty

2024-08-12 16:15:46 UTC

Using linguistic and cultural resources of tribes requires agreements with those tribal governments to protect data sovereignty

2024-08-12 16:16:08 UTC

Student data needs to be protected. Profiting off student data is unacceptable.

Teacher prep

2024-08-12 16:17:05 UTC

How is it integrated into these programs?

2024-08-12 16:17:45 UTC

Create policies that promote AI in education and respect data and privacy laws

2024-08-12 16:18:18 UTC

AI is marketed as helping with individualized and differentiated education. I worry that this, in practice, will end up as students being isolated

Potential overreliance

2024-08-12 16:19:50 UTC

We don't want AI to replace authentic human interactions or the answers it may give to have an undue influence on students self concept.

2024-08-12 16:19:54 UTC

We need reliable detection tools. These can function as boundary setting. And we know from human development that students need boundaries to feel safe and seen. With reliable detection tools, we can achieve the potential of AI

2024-08-12 19:55:33 UTC

What if we don't have access to devices to use AI?

Teacher Digital Literacy Skills

2024-08-12 19:57:23 UTC

Many teachers outside of tech/CTE still use pen and paper. Unless the school district places an emphasis on teacher competency around digital literacy, there will continue to be equitable utilization of technology to teach public school students.

Where Does the Info Go?

2024-08-12 19:57:47 UTC

Will teachers and students intellectual knowledge be protected? If teachers/students are inputting the ideation of the intended activity, can they use it as their own?

Assessment tools

2024-08-12 19:58:17 UTC

I need tools that help me give immediate and helpful feedback to students based on my rubrics, but I need that feedback to come out in student-friendly language so the students can use that feedback immediately to revise and edit their writing. Giving feedback on student writing is the most time consuming part of my job and the immediacy of the feedback matters.

2024-08-12 19:58:40 UTC

Where do we start with digital literacy for students who have grown up in environments where they don't have access to technology?

Some of our students come from developing countries, where they have grown up in areas where they haven't had access and are new to turning on a device and knowing what the Internet icon looks like.

Digital divide is real

2024-08-12 19:58:57 UTC

Not all students (schools or districts) can afford the best tools. So, the folks that can pay for those things may have an advantage to those who can't. Cost must be a consideration

Jim

IP concerns

2024-08-12 20:03:39 UTC

My son is a digital artist and has a lot to say about how AI is being used to "create" images

And the way models draw on content that creators may not have commented to be a part of is problematic

2024-08-12 20:04:00 UTC

How do we ensure AI doesn't replace relationships with people?

Appropriate content for students

2024-08-12 20:04:05 UTC

How can I ensure that the AI tools do not give students age-inappropriate or offensive images, information, etc.?

2024-08-12 20:04:51 UTC

AI and tech. fatigue can be harmful to social and emotional well-being.

How Emotional Can AI be?

2024-08-12 20:04:58 UTC

I wonder about AI capturing the cues when students do not feel good, or their moods change. Teachers have to balance the energy of the room, from frustration to excitement.

Teacher Development

2024-08-12 20:05:38 UTC

If a district has been deemed a MS partner, professional development should be deployed to each building in that district. It’s not fair to expect teachers to teach students how to utilize AI, when teachers have not been trained. It’s similar to teaching someone how to fly an airplane and build the plane simultaneously. It’s not fair and not right.

2024-08-12 20:06:04 UTC

How is AI culturally responsive and relevant?

2024-08-12 20:06:38 UTC

How do we support multilingual learners with limited and interrupted formal education?

AI Language in Action

2024-08-12 20:06:53 UTC

It was so cool to see a teacher your AI to create an AI of herself to be able to speak multiple languages in her own voice. This is huge for delivering lessons to MLL students.

2024-08-12 20:06:56 UTC

How can we evaluate and support with literacy in native language?

2024-08-12 20:10:05 UTC

It's important that resources remain free for public education!

Access to data collected

2024-08-13 15:41:58 UTC

Education professionals should have easy access to any data collected on their students/classroom and work place use of platforms.

Students and families should have annual access to all data collected, and have the opportunity to opt/opt, remove any data collected over their time on site as a minor.