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Dover Area SD teachers demonstrate classroom uses of AI and urge human oversight
Summary
District technology and classroom staff demonstrated generative AI tools for differentiated instruction and feedback, emphasized privacy cautions and recommended an AI-literate approach with teacher oversight; board members asked about age thresholds and how to preserve foundational skills.
District technology staff and teachers gave a demonstration to the board on artificial intelligence uses in K–12 classrooms, describing tools for differentiating text, generating practice items, providing formative feedback and producing student-facing reports — and emphasizing the need for human review and student privacy safeguards.
Samantha (Sam) Helwig opened the presentation by describing types of AI and the recent rise of generative models used to create text, images and video. She said generative AI can produce classroom materials quickly from prompts, but that it learns from large amounts of existing data and can raise copyright or accuracy issues.
Teachers showed examples Heather Zimmerman, a fifth-grade teacher at Dover Elementary, described classroom uses she—s trialed: adapting texts to multiple reading levels, creating targeted practice items, and using an AI-driven "Topic Explorer" that allows…
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