Wong questions teacher AI policy for lesson planning and grading

Okay, do you have a policy for telling teachers what to do with AI when it comes to planning lessons or grading papers?

Because I know, like for even right now, HR departments, they screen the resumes and reject resumes if they don't see a certain term or they don't see a certain experience.

And then applicants get rejected without having anyone looking at the resume, just rely on some AI engine, right?

So what is your policy on...

You have a policy for teachers on how to use AI.

I am planning lessons or grading papers.

Councilmember Wong, thank you for that question.

I want to make it very clear that in the guidance that was released in March, it really clearly states that assessments and grading are prohibited uses of AI in our New York City public schools.

Okay, what you say is, what about planning lessons?

What stops a teacher from telling AI, generate a lesson about Revolutionary War in Saratoga?

I hope they get great lessons.

I think what we have to do is to make sure that ultimately the lessons are content aligned, they're factually accurate, and they are deeply engaging with the learning that we want students to be doing.

And so we do not recommend nor encourage teachers to be using AI tools to be generating those lessons.

We want to make sure that that educator input and guidance is culturally appropriate and accurate for those learning purposes.

And to one of the things that you said earlier, we really truly want to make sure that the intelligence is something that we're developing with our students through deep interaction, educator guidance and support, and that is what we strongly believe in.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Councilman Wong.

I'll put you down for round two.

Squeeze in one more question, I'll go to round two.

Let's do round two.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Councilmember Hanif.