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South Colonie outlines AI rollout for teachers and students, highlights Magic School pilot
Summary
District technology staff described a year-long pilot of Magic School for teachers, plans to roll out student-facing Magic Student this spring, and a framework of seven principles intended to protect privacy and academic integrity while offering translation and lesson-generation tools.
South Colonie Central School District technology leaders on Tuesday described a phased rollout of artificial-intelligence tools for staff and students, stressing training, privacy safeguards and classroom uses.
Jim Lovett, identified in the meeting as the district's director of technology and data privacy officer, told the board the district ran a year-long pilot of Magic School with more than 110 teachers. He said the pilot produced a teacher-facing suite of roughly 80 tools — from lesson- and rubric-generators to text proofreaders and translation utilities — and that a student-facing…
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