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New York City has also banned AI for younger students as concerns over classroom use grow

Another school district has banned AI from being used in the classroom by students across all grades. While this isn't the first ban of its kind that we've seen, what's interesting is that it was introduced just weeks after the district started piloting Google Gemini for older students. Frederick County became the latest school district to ban AI use in the classroom this week, voting 6-1 to restrict the technology from pre-K through 12th grade. Initially, the board considered only banning AI for younger students, but eventually extended the ban through high school.

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[–] LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

the board probably asked IT for suggestions, and they said, "just go with gemini, we already have it in our gsuite."

I work in IT and your reasoning is solid but there’s a better chance that conversation went more like the board said “here’s every AI option but the one already in our platform” and then IT asked what the AI needed to be able to do and got a ¯\(ツ)/¯ back.

Then IT said “just go with gemini, we already have it in our gsuite."

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I have this exact conversation once every few months, but about forms. "Can we get some kind of survey platform? Like surveymonkey?" "We already have office 365 forms, just use that"

[–] tehBishop@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

I do the same, otherwise they'll go out and get the wrong service for $100-300k that'll take a year to implement and they either won't use or simply doesn't do what they want to do and expect us to support a service we've only known they purchased ~20 minutes ago.