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Students press trustees on AI and classroom resources; board outlines curricular and software plans

Sharyland Independent School District Board of Trustees · October 21, 2024
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Summary

High-school and middle-school students asked trustees about artificial intelligence and resource allocation. Trustees and administrators described oversight through committee work, monthly assessment reports, piloting prescriptive tools and use of software such as IXL and Branching Minds.

Students at the start of the meeting asked trustees how the district plans to use artificial intelligence to enrich classroom learning and whether trustees use AI in their own work. Student body president Alyssa Cedillo and vice president Jessica Garcia introduced the question and audience of students who had prepared questions.

A board member described testing ChatGPT personally and using it as a prompt to think differently about information access, noting they had spent an hour experimenting with the tool. The board and administration framed AI as a tool to expand access to information rather than…

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