LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — As the use of artificial intelligence grows globally, it is also expanding within Clark County School District classrooms, officials say.
In the last few years, the district has embedded several AI tools into its curriculum, officials said. FOX5 got an inside look at one example at Faiss Middle School near Fort Apache and Warm Springs roads in southwest Las Vegas.
“If you had an actual assistant in your classroom, how would you utilize that assistant?” asked Karen DelCasino, an eighth-grade teacher at the school. “AI is just kind of that assistant.”
DelCasino, who has taught at the school for 19 years, demonstrated the use of an AI program called Writable in her classroom. She said the AI program operates on students’ Chromebooks, allows them to submit assignments, and provides feedback to her in real time.
“It used to take hours to grade paragraphs, to grade essays,” DelCasino said. “It’s a lot more efficient than it used to be on pen and paper.”
DelCasino said she reviews the feedback before sharing it with students.
“I might make revisions on how it’s scored because, as a teacher, I know exactly what I’m looking for; AI only knows so much,” she said.
Rachel Solem, director of the Clark County School District’s Literacy and Language Development Department, said Writable is one of several programs available to schools in the district.
“AI is not going away, right?” Solem said. “We want to make sure our students know how to use that, but use it responsibly.”
Solem said the school district has developed a “safe list” of programs allowed in classrooms, meaning they have an agreement with the district to ensure student data is protected.
Student safety is also top of mind for the Nevada Department of Education, according to Emily Bleyle, the department’s education programs professional for computer science.
“Always a huge concern is security, privacy of student data,” Bleyle said. “It’s a closed-loop system, where it’s not being used to train the models.”
She said an AI task force developed an ethics statement to guide AI use in schools statewide, adding that they hope AI can help teachers with administrative work so they can spend more time connecting with students.
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