Our top education executive is under-educated on the proper use of AI, and we shouldn’t send our students into the world similarly unequipped.
Updated: 28 seconds agoDepartment of Education and Early Development Commissioner Deena Bishop sits in the audience before oral arguments on Thursday, June 27, 2024 at the Alaska Supreme Court in Anchorage.
The AI debacle was doubly unfortunate because it distracted from two more worthwhile discussions that we should be having around education and technology — first, the topic Bishop enlisted AI aid to tackle, limits on cellphones in schools. It’s ironic that the citations hallucinated by Bishop’s AI helper were bogus because there isindicating that limits on cellphones in schools are beneficial to student success and social-emotional well-being.
With that in mind, the solution cannot be to impose some sort of monastic moratorium on the technology, but rather to integrate it thoughtfully into the curriculum and teach students how to use it in a responsible way. In the face of such a game-changing development, the impulse to panic is powerful, and — especially in schools — we’re wary of doing things differently than the way we ourselves were taught.
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