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Norwalk coaches pilot classroom 'chatbots,' Digital Promise partnership to frame AI training
Summary
District coaches and leaders described classroom and operational uses for closed AI chatbots, emphasized human oversight to limit hallucination, and said the district plans to purchase locked systems to protect data.
Norwalk School District staff and board members on Feb. 21 described pilot uses of artificial intelligence tools to support teachers, curriculum planning and district operations and said they plan to buy closed systems that keep local data from leaving the district.
District officials said the technology is being used as a planning partner for lesson design, a coaching aid for teacher development and a resource that can surface district-approved instructional materials. The presentations highlighted three kinds of chatbots created this year: a curriculum-focused GPT for social studies, a math-algebra planning bot and coaching bots trained on explicit coaching texts.
"We're keeping artificial intelligence top of mind," said Doctor Alexander Strayer, who opened the…
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