Dinowitz raises credit recovery and principal concerns about AI
Dinowitz shares concerns from multiple principals who feel they are 'building the plane as they're flying it' on AI. He draws parallels to credit recovery programs where students sit at computers with no teacher interaction, warning AI could worsen this without proper guardrails.
Issues and I will tell you when it's almost 1600 schools escalating these issues to me I've had multiple principals tell me you know when it comes to this AI stuff they're they're frightened and they feel like there isn't enough guidance and they feel like they're building the plane it was an
as they're flying it that was an actual phrase multiple principals have said they feel like they're flying the plane I want to share a reality with you
that I experienced in high school about credit recovery.
You know, all of the principals are really incentivized to make sure kids graduate at any expense.
And so what they would often do is what's called credit recovery.
Does this sound familiar, credit recovery?
And they'll plop a kid in front of a computer.
I think in one of my schools it was called Atlas.
And they would sit for 45 minutes doing like online test stuff.
And that was bad enough.
No teacher interaction with 30 kids in a credit recovery class.
And now we didn't even get to the biases, the hallucinations of generative AI.
And we do not have the guardrails right now to ensure that our yearning to make sure kids get these credits doesn't conflict with what good education looks like.
And it's frightening to so many of the students and families and honestly, a lot of principals who just don't feel like they have the guidance yet.
Yet these tools, these approved vendors are still permeating their schools.
I'll ask two more questions and I'll turn it over to my co-chair, my neighbor from the south, Chair Diller.
For those of you that don't know, my district is like here and her district is right to the south of mine.
A little geography lesson for all of you.