Joseph on teacher training timeline and AI literacy gaps
Joseph asks for a timeline to ensure every educator receives AI training, noting some students are 'running circles around their teachers' with AI. Dr. Pate acknowledges no timeline is set yet and agrees technology moves faster than training development, describing it as a challenge of chasing capacity building.
What PD is being provided for them?
Because I also know.
that some of these curriculums also come in a hybrid model where you have a technology component to it.
How is that being used and how are teachers being trained?
So we spoke a little bit earlier about the two-tiered approach that we're taking now.
We have developed AI guidance at the central level, and our educators are engaged in that training.
So to date, more than...
More than 8,300 staff members have taken that information and that course.
In addition to that, on the other side of it is that we are partnering with our labor partners who are doing some really, really great work.
Even myself, I've attended their capacity building training.
Tara has attended the capacity building training that the UFT is offering.
So that is another way in which educators are being trained very skillfully around that work.
What's the timeline to make sure that every educator somehow went through at least one session of these classes that they're not navigating?
Because I know some kids, I could tell you, are running circles around their teacher with the use of AI.
And they can find other detectors that can make sure that the product that they produce is AI.
You cannot detect if it was used through AI.
And I know quite a few.
Yes, so I have an 11th grader at home who is currently providing professional development to me connected to...
All that AI has to offer and then some.
So I do agree with you.
around the need to continue to build capacity.
We have not set a timeline as of yet that I can offer you.
But the technology is moving faster than you're working.
By the time you go to sleep, somebody has created a new one.
And you are absolutely correct.
And there lies the challenge in it.
So I don't disagree.
I am agreeing with you that because of the rapid evolution of technology, it sometimes feels like we are chasing the development of professional learning and capacity building opportunities.
But we are actively creating and developing that.