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Educators urge nuanced AI rules for classrooms and flag 'Inanimate Alice' on VitaLearn
Summary
Montpelier Roxbury Superintendent Libby Bonesteel and technology director Mike Berry told the Senate Education Committee that a five-year moratorium on chatbots would block useful instructional and accessibility tools; lawmakers and the AOE debated definitions, vetting, and a VitaLearn listing for a product called Inanimate Alice that prompted parental concern.
Libby Bonesteel, superintendent of the Montpelier Roxbury School District, and Mike Berry, the district's director of curriculum and technology, told the Senate Education Committee on May 4 that H.650 needs clearer language to separate student-data privacy from pedagogical decisions.
"Those two things are not the same," Bonesteel said, urging the committee to adopt the Agency of Education's two-track approach and to keep curriculum decisions at the local level. She and Berry recommended tying edtech vetting to districts' continuous improvement plans and using established frameworks such as the SAMR model…
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