ORLANDO, Fla. – Orange County Public Schools are taking up artificial intelligence in the classroom in a discussion about district policy today. The meeting is happening at the school board workshop right now, ahead of the regular board meeting tonight at 5 p.m. at the OCPS headquarters in downtown Orlando.
You can read the agendas here.
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The district hopes to have a policy in place before the next school year begins.
The proposed policy would allow AI use as instructed by teachers in clear instances. Students would not be able to use AI chatbots for emotional support, and teachers would have to take more steps to use AI detectors to check students who are not doing their own work.
The proposed policy would also require all AI use to be vetted by the district first. It would also ban the use of OpenAI programs for students and staff so nothing the district or students do can be used to train future AI models.
More than 5,800 parents responded to a district survey, weighing in on their concerns about AI, which grade levels should have access to it, and how comfortable they felt with their children using it for schoolwork.
Some parents say the technology has no place in the classroom. Others argue AI is simply the next step forward and could benefit both students and teachers.
The survey also revealed that some parents worried the district might use AI as a way to reduce human resources.
The district used parent feedback to update its AI guidelines. Other key changes include prohibiting student data from being entered into AI programs and banning the use of deepfakes and copyright infringement.