A draft decree of President Donald Trump aims to integrate artificial intelligence through the education of kindergarten in the 12th year, with potentially important ramifications for schools.
The ordinance would ask the federal agencies to take measures to teach students how to use AI, train teachers to integrate it into their tasks and associate with the private sector to develop relevant programs in schools, according to The Washington Postwho obtained a copy of the order project and first reported that.
IAAnd more specifically, America's competitiveness in this technology has become a major objective of the Trump administration, said John Bailey, a non -resident researcher at the American Enterprise Institute. Another objective of the administration is China, which recently announced its own policy which aims to integrate AI into its education systemssaid Bailey.
“When you combine these two things, it is not surprising for me that you would see the administration to look at this moment to say that we should feel agencies to explore different ways of taking advantage of AI to help labor problems, with labor problems, with with with Itaph“He said.
If Trump sign the sign, the prescription would intervene at an important time, said Bailey, so that schools use technology to accelerate learning while math and students' reading scores continue to delay.
But carrying out an initiative led by the federal government – whether it is an executive decree or something else – to integrate AI roughly in the US schools of the K -12 could respond to several obstacles. Among them: a federal government reduced with less financing, staff and expertise may have trouble carrying out the directives of the order project, and the States can be resistant to the efforts of the Trump administration.
What the decor of the executive decree on AI in schools would require
The copy of the prescription obtained by the post is marked “predealized”, which means that it could change before the president signs it or that the administration can delete it completely.
As it is currently being written, the decree would establish a working group of the White House on the education of young people on artificial intelligence chaired by the director of the Bureau of Blanche House and Technology and including the Secretaries of Education, Agriculture, Labor and Energy, as well as Trump's Special Advisor for AI and Cryptocurrency, according to Post.
The draft order would have ordered the working group to identify the existing federal funding which can be directed towards effort, and it indicates that the Secretary of Education Linda McMahon has specifically prioritized to prioritize the federal funding for subsidies for teacher training on the way of using AI. The order stipulates that all educators should receive professional development on the integration of technology in all areas. Work secretary Lori Chavez-Deremer is said to be responsible for developing learning programs recorded in AI-related jobs.
The order of order also requests relevant federal agencies to prioritize IA expenses and seek public-private partnerships with the university world, industry and non-profit organizations to teach students Itaph and the skills of critical thinking.
Finally, the order would create an AI competition for students and educators called “AI presidential challenge”, according to the post.
The departments of education and work and the office of the scientific and technological policy of the White House did not respond to requests for comments.
These are all promising objectives, said Pat Yongpradit, the university director of Code.org, a non -profit organization that promotes Computer education.
“Many points raised in the (project) decree … are positive things, in particular the emphasis on the literacy of AI and the skills of critical thinking”, “ He said.
The literacy of AI, however, should not focus on how to use AI as indicated in the order project, said Yongpradit, who also leads TeachAn initiative supporting schools in the use and teaching of technology. AI’s complete literacy should include learning to interact and collaborate in a creative manner with technology, effectively managing AI actions and in a responsible manner of AI solutions, he said.
Yongpradit, who did not see any copy of the order project, said he was interested in seeing what it would look like in practice.
“Professional development is essential to change the practice of the class, but it must be of high quality,” he said.
Joseph South, the director of innovation for ISTE + ASCD, said that he was encouraged by the reported content of the draft decree. What he would like to see is more support for education leaders, he said.
South said that when he managed the Education Technology Office during the Obama Administration, he saw a lot of Professional learning on Ed Tech for teachersBut “almost no support for leaders around Ed Tech.
“I would love to see that this will become an element of the final (executive decree),” he said.
AI national priority would be difficult without federal support
But starting a national initiative to promote the integration of AI into teaching and learning kindergarten in the 12th year could be difficult given the recent funding and reductions in the endowment to the American Department of Education and other federal agencies, according to experts.
For example, the team of the Department of Education which was responsible for cracking a national educational technology plan under several administrations and helping states and districts to implement technology in schools Recently eliminated As part of the Trump administration's efforts to reduce the federal workforce and finally eliminate the education service. The department now has about half of the number of staff members as he did when Trump has taken office.
“It is difficult to understand at a time when they deprived the federal education policy and priorities, how to reconcile this by establishing a national priority in this field (of AI),” said Bailey, former director of the Office of Educational Technology during the George W. Bush administration. However, he said, a more rationalized department of education could be better able to respond to the priorities of the Trump administration, as indicated in the order project.
“Maybe the Ministry of ED. Reinvents how the best staff and structure and support something like that. But I think it's an open question,” said Bailey.
For the moment, schools need advice and support on how to maximize the advantages of AI while minimizing potential risks and damage, said Bailey. But even if the federal government may want to establish the integration of AI as education priority and the resources of Marshal to meet the challenges that schools face, the Trump administration is likely to undermine its objectives by politicizing AI.
“History is full of examples of really good and important work (in education) that, when the federal government began to establish it as a priority, has been controversial,” he said. “We have seen it with school responsibility, as we saw with Common Core.”
While AI technologies have been around for decadesattention to her increased in 2022 after the release of CatA generative AI tool that can produce human -type conversational responses to prompts. Since then, the districts have been with which role rapid evolution technology should play in classrooms.
The Department of Education, under the Biden administration, was published A toolbox for education leaders on the integration of AI In schools that have an eye on security, ethics and equity problems. At least 27 states and Puerto Rico have also developed their own AI directives for districts, according to Teach.
The order project comes as McMahon recently thought about how AI could be integrated into classrooms, in particular to improve individual instructions. Speaking before Representatives and educators of technological companies Earlier this month at the ASU + GSV summit in San Diego, McMahon applauded a district that included AI from pre-maternal. (She wrongly called AI as “A1”, which launched a Viral fire storm on sampling.)
“Not so long ago, it is:” We are going to have the internet in our schools, Whoop, “she said. “Now, ok, let's do (Ai) and how can it be useful?” How can it be useful in the head-to-head instruction? How can it be useful to absorb more information for these fast learners? ”
