Artificial intelligence has gotten a lot of bad press when it comes to educating students who use programs like ChatGPT to write papers and do homework.
More schools are claiming AI is in the classroom, and one North Texas school district is hiring one of the nation’s largest companies to make sure students are AI-savvy before entering the workforce. We are partnering with one.
It’s still a few months away, but the North Mesquite High School senior is thinking seriously about graduation.
“My goal is to maintain all ‘A’s,” said one student, expressing his desire to graduate in the top 10% of his class.
Students have been setting goals throughout the year with the help of technology.
It’s called AYO, and it’s an AI-based program that Mesquite ISD is implementing in its classrooms to monitor how much students are studying and doing their homework, and to make sure they’re truly on track to be in the top 10%. Let students and teachers know if you are
“I didn’t know if it was new or not. How do I make this work? How can I fit and adjust it into my class?” Kimberly Christina told us.
Christina said she was hesitant, but then realized how the tool not only makes it easier to track student performance, but also acts like a virtual assistant to facilitate student progress.
Regarding the new program, Abigail Ortega said, “We set goals for ourselves, such as academically, and then we also think about what we want to achieve for ourselves.”
AI in the classroom may make adults do a double take, but students don’t see the big deal. Just as Netflix pays attention to what you’re watching and suggests what to watch next, computers can do the same for you when it comes to studying. And life.
“We need all these questions and similar activities to understand what we want to do career-wise, what we want to do after high school, things like that,” said Fatima Castro, another. said. student.
At a time when many of America’s largest companies want high school students to regularly use and familiarize themselves with the AI that is expected to soon explode into the workforce, the district is enlisting the help of the Walton family. This new technology was adopted.
“I can’t say I’m working on it 100% at a time, but when I’m doing it, it’s really helping me get my work done,” Castro said.
The district is only using it in AVID classes that set goals and work on study skills, but it’s a first step and how AYO could one day slip into science and math classes. And the teachers and students we met are there to see if they can do that. Don’t worry about it for a second.
“A lot of what we do as teachers is build relationships with our students, and I think that’s what the teaching is about, not the technique,” Christina said.
