On October 24, 2024, prompted by a Biden administration October 2023 executive order and as a result of U.S. Department of Education (USDE) public listening sessions held with 90 educators as well as 12 roundtable discussions with education leaders between December 2023 and March 2024, USDE’s Office of Educational Technology released a highly anticipated guidance to help K-12 leaders integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into their school districts. The 74-page toolkit includes strategies for mitigating risks and developing AI use policies and comes as more K-12 school districts look to use the technology in their classrooms or for business operations.
Titled Empowering Education Leaders: A Toolkit for Safe, Ethical, and Equitable AI Integration, the toolkit contains three sections. They are:
–Mitigating risks while safeguarding students’ privacy, security and civil rights.
–Building a strategy for integrating the use of AI tools that best fits students’ needs.
–Guiding the effective use of AI to boost teaching and learning.
Click here to access the toolkit.
Source K-12 Dive