How should schools be handling AI?

Educational, school and district leaders are scrambling to come up with policies and guidance regarding AI in schools.   Students especially high school and college students are already using AI and there is no detection system available to adequately assess when AI has been used.  Luckily there are a number of organizations working together to provide leadership and guidance.  TeachAI has created an AI Guidance for Schools Toolkit that is the result of 60+ global organizations working together.  It is designed to "help local, state, and national education systems worldwide develop guidance on the responsible use of AI, ensure compliance with relevant policies, and build the capacity of all stakeholders to understand AI and use AI effectively. "  It provides a framework for implementing AI in an educational system and many resources for policymakers and educators to consider.
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Code.org, ISTE, Khan Academy, and ETS have partnered together to create an AI 101 page to help educators think about how to use AI.  There are a series of 30 minute videos that provide wonderful guidance in terms of thinking about using AI for teaching and learning and specific examples of teachers using generative AI to create content for their classrooms.  This intro video below of Hadi Partovi of code.org and Sal Khan of Khan academy is a great place to start to think about all of the risks and benefits of AI in schools

In addition to the series of videos for educators, there are high quality videos explaining various topics related to AI and a growing collection of professionally designed curricula that students and teachers can access from Code.org.  There is a link to ISTE's course for educators on generative AI and two AI tools specifically designed for students: ETS has developed a writing tutor for students and Khanmigo is Khan Academy's chatbot designed specifically for students.  

The AI toolkit and AI 101 page offer thorough and well thought out ideas for implementing AI into school systems and both leave space for room to grow as the field of generative AI advances.