L.A. school officials say their new app lets students and parents, in one place, find anything they need related to school and their specific learning path.
The Los Angeles school district on Wednesday unveiled a much-awaited AI tool named “Ed” to serve as a new student adviser, programmed to tell its young users and their parents about grades, tests results and attendance — while giving out assignments, suggesting readings and even helping students cope with nonacademic matters. With Ed's introduction, L.A. schools Supt. Alberto M. Carvalho sought to establish the nation's second-largest school system as a hub for innovation.
Unified had to persuade its many education vendors to open the doors to their platforms — so that students and parents don't have separate paths, logins and passwords to reach different parts of the system. Many vendors have business models that do just the opposite: create a closed ecosystem so that the client would have difficulty integrating with competing products. Other elements of the effort: The chatbot is unavailable to students younger than 13.
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