Manlius, ny – The Fayetteville-Manlius school district is grappling with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in education, a subject that took the scene during a recent meeting of the School Board. The district is collaborating with the University of Syracuse to develop a framework for using AI in classrooms, using a color coded system to determine when the technology is appropriate.
Territs Kiritsis, a specialist in support for the behavior of autism with 40 years of experience, expressed both optimism and concerns about the role of AI in education. “I have been doing this for 40 years. Education is my passion and my faith,” said Kiritsis. She acknowledged that AI programs could facilitate her workload, but worrying about students' dependence on technology. “I want you to know how to access the information. I want you to understand the information you are trying to disseminate. And if you use AI to do it for you, you will never know,” she said.
The Superintendent Craig Tice compared the AI ​​to the calculators, emphasizing his potential as a tool. “We must be able to adopt it as a tool, a bit like the calculator. I mean, it did not end mathematical education. It really changed it and improved it,” said Tice.
The assistant superintendent of the Kathy Daughton Study Program and Instruction underlined the varied IA impact between the subjects. “We asked the secondary school science teachers to talk about the incredible ways of which the AI ​​presented the opportunities to the students to really dig into really complex data sets that they would not be able to use without this technology, while the human science teachers were worried to ensure that the writing that was produced was made in an ethical as well as informative and truthful.”
The district focuses on the preparation of students in the future, as Tice noted: “It really puts students first, in fact, we try to prepare them for their future, not for our past.”
With an ACT report indicating that almost half of the students use AI, the urgent question remains: how will schools evaluate AI use and establish guidelines?
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