While artificial intelligence continues to be integrated into technology, local school systems have started to update their directives for the ethical and appropriate use of the tool.
Managers of the County Hall and Gainesville City schools explained how each system plans to deal with the use of AI for students and teachers.
Hall County School Eddie Millwood's digital convergence director and the digital convergence specialist from kindergarten to 12th year, Laney Park, if the system does not currently have a policy for or against the use of AI, directives for the district are at the primary stages of planning and can be subject to change as technology is developing.
“We know that this is such an evolving technology, and we know that we may have to change some of our AI changes orientation practices,” said Millwood. “Many things with the AI that may be concerned are already addressed in our current policies, whether it is an acceptable use agreement or the code of conduct. So there was really no need to recreate this, because there was just to give directives and best practices of use. ”
Park recalled that the district had started to consider establishing guidelines in 2025 by encouraging teachers to familiarize themselves with technology.
“We first wanted to be able to teach teachers and other members of the district staff on AI, on the user use of AI, on how to take it effectively and the positive impact that he may have on teaching,” she said.
Park and Millwood have explained that even if AI has existed for some time, the district has not immediately created guidelines for its use, because most software has not been designed for educational purposes and forced users to be at least 18 years old. From now on, the need is more widespread because the resources that the district has previously bought begin to integrate the tools in its software.
“There are (now) generative AI products that are built only for educators,” said Park. “As part of our purchases from Microsoft and Google in the district, teachers have access to Microsoft Gopilot and Google Gemini, then they also have access (to) Khan Academy (who owns) Khanmingo tools for teachers, who are free for all educators, and again, built directly for educators and education.”
The two also clarified that although the district presents technology to teachers, students generally do not use AI in class. Instead, teachers use technology to create headings for assignments, differentiation of teaching or the personalization of lessons for individual needs. Teachers should always examine the products of the AI of the product.
The director of educational technology and the media of Gainesville City schools, Eddie Nemec, explained that, like the schools of the county of Hall, GCS gives priority to the safety of students and staff when they decide which tools will be and will not be used in class – whether integrated or not. The process of verification of the two systems examines the policies of application of the request and the conditions of use.
“The great thing that worries us is where the data is going? Who sees the data and where she lives,” said Nemec. “Thus, for example, (with Chatgpt), if an end user goes to Chatgpt and enters everything you know, say, the work of a student. Well, technically, who has fueled the model of AI, and he is now in the AI model.”
NEMEC said that GCS guidelines for technology describes appropriate and inappropriate uses for AI, which could include the use of technology to do harm, creating an account for an age model required by the service or the use of technology to generate school work.
While the school system discourages students to complete the work using AI, the district also advises teachers not to use tools that detect the use of AI to missions.
“We have really guided teachers not to want to count on the tools that report AI, because these tools could be biased, and these tools can also have a lot of false indicators,” he said.
In addition, the HCSD and the GCS do not currently block generative AI sites such as the Chatppt on school issues, but give teachers the possibility of blocking or restricting access to certain sites if necessary.
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