(TNS) – While artificial intelligence continues to progress at a cheeky speed, St. Charles public schools are trying to follow new technological changes in its classrooms by giving teachers more resources.
On Monday, the district should approve the purchase of a new business training program, Gruvy Education, to help teachers follow the AI revolution. According to Superintendent Robert Routh, it is not only a question of ensuring that students maintain academic honesty in their work, but also to prepare them for a world where they will meet artificial intelligence in their lives.
“It is our responsibility as a school system to give them the skills they will need,” said Roth about teaching students to adapt to the use of AI. “If we don't do it, we do a bad service for our children not to exhibit them and adapt to time.”
The district pays a basic amount of $ 4,000 for the training, with additional costs of $ 30 for each person who took it.
Schools have been trying to adapt to the advent of artificial intelligence tools for several years, since the OPENAI technological organization launched the Chatgpt program. The program allows users to ask questions that are still complex with the gratuity of quasi-mingen answers. It also allows users to generate large quantities of written work, which means that students could use it to find shortcuts to class assignments.
Roth described the start of AI tools as the “new Google”.
“This is the new tool that we must find new ways to manage and understand how it will work in the life of our students,” said Roth. “Our children will be part of the trip with AI for their professional life and their personal life. So now, as a school system, we must decide what type of influence we will have on its use.”
According to Roth, the St. Charles training program adopts will help teachers inform students of the appropriate use of AI tools, such as Chatppt. One of the ways that the district is going to do is to ask teachers to devote at least one class unit to the application of AI.
Even if training is finally at the service of students, it should also have advantages for teaching staff. An overview of the program indicates that “teachers who finish training save an average of 3.23 hours per week on preparation and administrative tasks”.
“(It is) teach a teacher how to use it too,” said Routh about the training program. “For them to be comfortable with this, they must adopt it in their own life at a certain level.”
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