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Parents and experts urge caution on generative AI; librarians describe district—s AI-literacy lessons
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Parents, students and an AI ethics expert urged the board to slow any wide rollout of generative-AI tools and include teachers in curriculum design; district librarians said fifth-grade AI-literacy lessons are in place and elementary devices do not have AI access.
Parents, students and subject-matter experts urged the Ann Arbor Public Schools board to avoid or pause a districtwide generative-AI rollout until teachers are meaningfully involved and community concerns are addressed.
Angie Berkeley, a University of Michigan writing teacher and parent, told the board she opposed incorporating generative-AI tools into Advanced Academic Programs curricula and cited research that short-term AI assistance can reduce students' long-term problem-solving ability. "I do not want our AAPs students to be paying this kind of heavy cognitive cost," she said.
Sonia Chawla, who identified herself as a parent and a researcher with…
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