How Ohio is navigating AI in the classroom
OCRI Executive Staff Director Rebekah Michael offers insight
WLWT reported that Ohio is the first state to require artificial intelligence policies in all public K-12 schools.
Rebekah Michael, Executive Staff Director of the Ohio Cyber Range Institute, weighed in on AI in schools.
“The technology of the time is AI,” Michael, who is also a professor at the University of Cincinnati’s School of Information Technology, told WLWT. “If we're using AI to help write our papers — which is a great tool — we don't know what that source of information is. So, it is something that we're addressing.”
Michael also noted that “critical thinking is at risk” when implementing AI into the classroom, especially in verifying if information is correct.
“If we put some rules and regulations around it, it makes it easier for us to instruct in the classroom,” Michael said. “It also makes it easier for the students to not be afraid of it, but instead kind of have those rules around it so that they can use it.”
Featured image at top of kids on laptops in the classroom. Photo/iStock/adamkaz
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