calling the meeting to order It will be based on whether or not we have a quorum So thank you so much everyone for your patience And I guess if we could start that process that'd be great
Barbara McQueen school board district one member Yes For for Matt Lane Um here Christine Tibs school board district 2 member
here Rachel Freshburg school board district 3 member here Nate Collins school board district 4 member Dr Holly Seinfield School Board District
5 member Laura Felman School Board District 6 member Present Charmaine Post Postal County Council of PTA PTSA Victoria
Hillard Coalition for Black Students Achievement Regginald Durandis IET and Action Inc Randy Great Gabriel District ESse Advisory Committee present
Sheila Scott Luben Palm Beach State College So I lost track How many people are present We have seven We have a quorum We have a quorum Wonderful Um for those who were absent
um did anybody send a um an email or a call to indicate that they would not be here The only person uh that I know of um was vice chair Charmaine Postit Uh she
has a commitment in Tallahassee and she indicated that she may not be able to attend Okay So she has an excused absence Um and for everyone else if you would please mark them down as unexcused
absences Then um with that have there been anybody who has missed three consecutive unexcused absences Not not that we we're aware of No Okay
So we'll keep this in mind I think for next month That'll be um good information to have So um I'll go ahead and start the meeting now Hi this this is Laura Felman um chair of the academic advisory committee and I'm calling the
meeting to order at 5:50 p.m Thank you all for showing up and uh very excited that we can have a quorum And let me go back to our
agenda Actually I'm not I'm not seeing the agenda So um it would you like me to present the agenda Certainly that'd be great Okay Okay thank you Um so the next item on our agenda is the approval of a minute
of the minutes Um will somebody please make a motion to approve the minutes McQuinn so moved Thank you Do we have a second Second Thank you so much And any
discussion Hearing none Um all in favor please either raise your hand or verbally say you um vote in favor I thank you Any opposed Motion carries Wonderful Do we have
anyone here from the public for public comment Not in person Okay And nobody online I assume Correct Oh Sheila I see that your hand is raised Yeah I just wanted to know if you did roll call cuz I wasn't able to
get in We did do roll call Um can we please make sure that uh Sheila has been marked as present Thank you Thank you very much Okay And moving right along if we
would uh uh Miss Bishop if you would please give us the update for the chief academic office that'd be wonderful Good evening everyone Hope you're doing well Happy Monday Um just very few
updates today We are uh very very busy during this time of the year really plugging away implementing our our our action plans our second semester action plans making sure our students are ready um
for this uh this last second half of the year preparing for our um pupil progression preparing making sure everyone's meeting their standards showing their work getting ready for our final PM3 all of our final end of the year testing So lots going on here Um I
do want to share as far as um I mentioned it before our kindergarten kickoff So if any child will be five before September 1st of 2025 we want to make sure that uh they attend their zoned school kindergarten kickoff which
is scheduled the week of April 7th It's a great time for families to go to the school meet the staff Um some schools allow you to tour the building uh the teachers will share information regarding curriculum and all that's
needed to start to register school is shared as well Um we also will be distributing kits again for parents to work with their children at home making sure they have their readiness skills and that they are ready to go starting
um kindergarten So make sure that you are looking out for that This event again kickoff in all of our schools will take place April 7th Um also want to just mention that we had
a lot of great celebrations in February We celebrated Black History Month Um right now in March we have it's the music um in schools month as well We're getting ready for our spring break school district will be closed Our
offices um March 24th through March 28th Uh we reopen on the 31st but that's like our our school uh professional I think it's a work teacher work day that day on the 31st of March Students come back
April 1st Um and just as far as what's coming up we have the district volunteer and business partnership award breakfast in April April 11th Um April 24th is just take our daughters and sons to work day here at the school district And I
just saw that our paid summer student internships uh we are now accepting applications for the summer and that's a great program for our students uh to engage in some internship opportunities They're paid so that's a plus during the
summer months here in within our Fulton Holland buildings And I did want to just share from last time a followup from we had um Dr um Hkins shared high school graduation data
with us and there was a question about the CLT usage and so I just wanted to provide that response Okay So out of the 13,740 FY24 graduates
642 or 4.7% of the students used CLT for algebra conc concordance Sorry Um let me see And it just says 4,94 29.8% used another concordance
option and 634 or 4.6% 6% use a CLT for reading concordance and 3,960 or 28.8% used another concordance option Those that was a question that was that uh was asked of M of Dr Houchins at the last
meeting and that is all I have to share with you [Music] today Thank you very much Um does anybody have any questions Oh Erica I see you have raised a hand Yes Um this is Rachel Sorry my
daughter's name is showing up on the uh screen I had a question What is how is the school district um preparing for the possible um situation if the board of education um if the department of education gets
dismantled How are we preparing Are we working on it currently And can you give us any any insight into what is going to happen At this time I don't have any information to share regarding that I know that we are watching very closely
what's going on um at the federal level Um our leaders they were just in Tallahassee last week So any kind of plan or anything right now is taking place behind the scenes working with the officials but nothing we have nothing to
share at this point yet but as soon as as um that information is available it will be shared Thank thank you Um I I do have one question Uh you had mentioned that some schools allow tours
Uh that it's a it sounds like it's a school by school decision um for the kindergarters kindergarten families Um is there what the question is is how many of our
schools are not giving tours and and for what reasons So it depends too on what time they offer the kickoff events Some schools do them in the evening some schools during the do it during the daytime Um some schools do it twice So those are some of
the considerations Um obviously during the day we have all of our students on campus and so that becomes more difficult But uh a lot of times in the evenings the schools will take the parents through um you know walk around campus Some it depends on each school
individually Uh many schools will offer v will play videos kind of a day in the life of a kindergartenner where um you know students can be seen in the different areas of the school and so forth But I really don't have the numbers that will say which allow it and
which which do not It's it is a school-based decision Um but the all the schools really do their best to make sure that parents understand what the what the campus is like get a feel for it have different um
speakers teachers and so forth But I would depending on each school the parents may always reach out to the school administrators to see what their policies are I see Is there any discussion about
um making this consistent throughout the district so that all families will feel equally welcomed We do have a lot of consistency in terms of the program what it looks like the resources that are shared the kits and
all that But in terms of exactly what that looks like not but we will definitely consider that Okay great Thank you Um does anybody else have any other questions Okay thank you So if we could move on to
the presentation that would be wonderful Uh thank you Mrs Felman Uh good a good good evening everyone I'm Adam Miller the chief of performance accountability Uh here with me today is our brand new director of educational technology Mrs
Rebecca Smeckla Um Mrs Smeckla is in the job literally a week so I'll be presenting and she'll jump in if you have any questions uh to rescue me So um uh yeah So I'm going to share my screen
Okay here we go Okay we're going to talk all about AI this evening Um please note the picture on this slide was generated by AI And I know um we've all heard a lot about AI Some of us are using AI Um we're excited
about AI here in the school district Um but we're excited about using it safely And we're going to kind of talk about that as we go through this presentation Uh I'm going to talk about three specific agenda item um uh pieces I guess Uh first I'm going to level set
what is artificial intelligence Uh in my experience talking to many people about AI um there's quite a bit of uh differences a range in understanding So I just want to kind of level set for this group uh first then we're going to talk about how we're using AI currently
in the school district and then we're going to focus on conigo which is our main uh AI implementation with our students So uh before I start though I'd like to do a little audience
participation So um if you can uh this has uh four pieces of technology on the slide airplanes internet Facebook and generative AI The question is how many years did it take each of these technologies to get to 50 million users
Um love everyone to go on to the chat and let's do the airplane first How long did it take airplanes to get to 50 million users Anyone could drop in the chat their guesses Do you mean how many people actually
flew on an airplane Yep First time 50 How many years did it take 50 million people to fly in an airplane Great question Mr McQuinn We got decades Five 70 Any
others Okay Miss Tibs was very very close 68 years for uh 50 million people to fly in an airplane Let's do the internet How long did it take people 50 million people to use the
internet Got 20 20 30 20 Let's see seven years H how about Facebook One year four years three years two years three years Great job Miss Scott
Luben And then how about generative AI How long did it take to 50 million people to use generative AI I see one month I see one year Okay Miss Tibs you're gonna have to go buy a lottery ticket I think Um and
please share with me It was five weeks So you're very close Can you imagine five weeks And I believe that's 50 million users Um Mrs Mecca I believe we're at 200 million users in six months
Is that am I off on that So within um eight weeks we were at a 100 million users and now we're at over 600 million users a week using child GPT a week not just using it for the first time Thank you Mrs Smecka That's uh
interesting to say the least that it took five weeks for that many people to use Gener AI each week So um that tells us that a lot of people see the value in AI and are finding new ways to use it every day and it's not going to go away
anytime soon So let's let's level set what is artificial intelligence Um I'm not going to read the whole slide to you but in very simple terms AI is the ability to computers to perform tasks that
typically require human intelligence Uh we've had AI for a long time Uh it used to be called machine learning Um um you know uh before chat GBT came out if you were typing in Gmail sometimes it would finish the sentence for you That's
AI and that was there before Um generative AI however is a sub field of AI and it focuses on creating new content Um uh so the creation is not just analysis like traditional AI proely
analyzes or predicts but that generative AI can produce new outputs such as text images music videos and even code Um so basically generative AI allows machines to create in a way that was previously thought to be exclusive to
humans So AI is and you're currently using it uh you may not realize it is uh online and intore shopping robot tractors precision agriculture warehouse fulfillment Anytime you place an order on Amazon it uses AI to fulfill that
order through their warehouses Credit card fraud protection insurance rates when you put in to get a quote for insurance rate that they use AI Uh NASA you uh uses AI to enhance images from space texttospech software foreign
language translations mapping and navigation like your GPS It's in all of our lives and industries But however AI is not alive It's not smarter than us It can think faster but it's not smarter and is not killer robots However I
always say thank you to my chat GPT when it helps me something just on the off chance We're all wrong about that Um but it's not going away Uh uh just a little bit more about AI and everyday applications I I mentioned you know autocorrect and
predictive text I mentioned the predictive text and Gmail Um we all have uh many of us have iPhones and use Siri Um if you have Google Android phone you might have Alexa or you might use your Google Assistant Um you might have been
on a website you get very frustrated trying to call and you can't get someone on the phone if you need customer service but you use that chat bots and those chat bots are sometimes really really well done and th those are AI and they will soon AI will soon be in almost
every application imaginable Uh so I'm going to give you a little quick lesson on something we call prompt engineering You may have heard Um so some people use AI like chat GPT and they go in and use like a Google search
and say you know give me all the cities in the state of Nevada or something like that and chat will do that and do it very well However if you know how to ask questions um uh succinctly uh the way
that a generative AI thinks you're going to get a better result And that's what prompt engineering is all about And very quickly I'm just going to we're going to use the acronym five parts And each letter the P stands for persona When you start your prompt you
want to tell the chat GPT or whatever the I is what your role is I'm going to use the example of a vacation Um I'm going to say I'm a husband going on vacation with my wife and two daughters Simple Uh the second piece is aim State
your objective I'm going to say my family were going on vacation to the keys Um the third one is recipients to spec specify the audience And I'm going to tell CHP I'd like um I'd like
suggestions on where to go in Key West and where to stay um in a schedule format um so my family can use it well The fourth is theme Describe the style tone and any related parameters My family were foodies so I
might add in we our family is foodies Please suggest some great places to eat Um and then the fifth piece is structure How would you like the results to look I already kind of said a schedule but I'm going to be very specific You can say things like provide it in a table format
with each column being a day of the week um and each row being an hour of the day and lay out your suggestions on the table Um and you'll get a very specific response um so uh that's prompt engineering and if you could remember
five parts um that might be very helpful to you as you use any of the AIS you might want to print this page and keep it with you It's very helpful I use it all the time So artificial intelligence in the school district of Palm Beach County What are we using Um there's currently
six applications Let me go through each of them Uh the first is Adobe Express And this is used by teachers and students And Adobe Express Adobe's been around a long time Um they're really good at video really good at pictures And their AI Adobe Express is very good
at that as well um you can use that to create the graphics web pages and even videos with very simple tools There's chat JBT which I already mentioned that was the kind of the first real um real AI as generative AI as we think of it that hit the streets and
everyone got really excited Um right now uh on our network only teachers can use can have access to chat GPT uh and we'll talk about why in a little bit Uh Gemini is very similar to chatpt but it's Google's version of their AI Um
and that's for teachers only Canva is uh teachers was teachers only but then we gave access to students as of October and this is a graphic design platform I use it often to help create PowerPoint slides and other
presentations Uh it's very helpful Claude um is the IBM version of Chat GPT or Gemini Uh Claude's very good for complex reasoning and um um you know u programming things like
that Claude's really good at that stuff Um on MIGO the sixth one all of our teachers have access and all of our students in sixth through sixth grade through 12th grade have access uh this whole year Um we're going to dive more into Konigo in a little bit So I'm just
going to kind of keep going So all those six applications have gone through a very thorough vetting process through our district We have a process called the technology clearing house process or TCH And that's where any technology application is reviewed
for technical ability uh technical ability uh security of its data which is very important um supporting our academics and meeting our legal and risk requirements Um so all of these programs meet that and that's why we don't uh let
let students use any kind of AI We have to be very careful and that's that's how we uh identify that through the TCH process our strategic plan uh we have we've added a new strategic plan initiative uh
called uh D1C which is all about AI and it's really empowers empowering staff and students to integrate AI to enhance learning increase efficiency and inspire innovation Um just some uh not going to read the whole slide but just some high level things we're working on is an
artificial intelligence policy Um we're providing lots of staff training um uh to our teachers and our staff Um providing safe access for our students as well as instruction for our students on how to use AI safely And then also
looking at ways we can use AI uh as a technical solution um to give us more efficiencies at the school district in the classroom etc So TechSafe TechSafe's been around for a while TechSafe is our program that we use to um uh teach our students how
to safely use technology Um before this year it was you know uh how can students you know go on the web safely Um you know just being safe about technology in general Um we've updated TechSafe to include AI Um and uh we base our
TechSafe program on common sense media which is a very trusted source for parents um when it comes to using their uh for their students to use technology Now I do see two hands up so I wonder if I have to jump back a slide I'm not sure
whose hand was up first Um actually Sheila would you go ask your question Yeah Yes So I work at Palm Beach State College So the professors
there are really struggling with students using AI and specifically ethical use of AI in regards to academic
integrity Is there any thing I know you mentioned the district is working with students but do you touch upon that in any way with the student population Uh yes So through through the techsafe
program um that does teach ethical use of AI and other technologies um you know um like a student can go on a you know their phone and search up something um you know if that's done during a test that's not good right um so we touch on
that during the techsafe uh piece Mrs Felman do you have a question too I do actually Um you talked about the use of AI Um but my question is what are we doing
to train our students to be the within computer science to take those next steps and and become those AI researchers and developers and creating
better and new facets of of AI That's a good very good question Um so a Mrs Memecka I think wants to tackle that one Well I just wanted to um it's not a part of the presentation but there are u many programs that our career and
technical education department is working on with our middle school and high school So there are actually some AIMEies that are being um out there in the um partnership with UF and their curriculum So it is in the conversation
um as a part of the uh strategic initiative We have those folks from CTE on the initiative and so they're working through the work group with how we can spread that knowledge to you know more schools but there are certain programs
in certain high schools where it's currently there already um and it is in the plans to expand So do you have numbers as to how many of our high schools and how you know what percentage of our high schools have these opportunities and what percentage
of our high school our middle schools have these opportunities and then the balance of that is if they don't have the opportunity for focusing on AI do they still have um access
to like AP computer science classes or other things which can be the stepping stones for work in AI Yeah I don't have the exact numbers That's um outside of my realm However I do know that computer science and I I
believe is offered at the majority if not all of our middle school and high schools but um we can um do a followup for that with you There is not as much AI specific yet um that is definitely
because it's an emerging technology and needs to be vetted We do have it at a few but the computer science program has been around for many many years but I can get that information for you Right But I'm not talking about AP computer science principles I'm talking about
classes beyond that because for example most universities uh many universities don't even accept that uh test for credit when in the many of the wellrespected um computer science programs um majors around the country So my
question is beyond that level like AP computer science A what other opportunities is the school district giving to students knowing that the having thesemies is a great thing but not every student has access to that
So we might be missing out on helping students to develop talent when they're just not in that academy and don't have that background but they could possibly get there perhaps in their college years But if we give this introduction to them
and the next steps to them earlier in their lives in their middle school and high school ages it would probably benefit them And um Christine I see you've raised your hand No just going off of that maybe that's something that um the school district can have with
Vanderbilt University I know that they are planning to bring in a business and tech campus in West Palm Um they just released renderings of the campus Um it is they're they are using county land um
to build that campus in downtown West Palm So um maybe that's something a partnership that the district could explore to you know tie into what was just being discussed of you know more programs beyond what is currently
offered at a university level and Vanderbilt being a respected private university that's going to have a presence in West Palm Um that might be something worth exploring Uh thank you for that feedback we will um you know when we get that information
about the CT courses we'll bring that um we'll make that suggestion Okay And Sheila I believe has her hand raised as well Yes I just want to mention that the school district does work closely with Palm Beach State
College with articulation agreements and one of our very strong ones is computer science We are also have launched a bachelor's in AI
and as programs in AI working also with UF and we have had joint PD development with the school district So that is something we are constantly working with
the district and the continuing edif folks CTE on strengthening those partnerships especially in the area of AI Yeah I know the district partnered with Palm Beach State College and offered a
lot of events during the week for um students using AI within our district They also um had the Mark Cuban AI boot camps available to our students this past year as well And those were for any student who wanted to attend It didn't
have to be a part of an academy That's great Okay I'll I'll keep going on So Gemini so I mentioned Gemini Gemini is Google's AI um uh similar chat GPT Um each of the
models has different strengths and weaknesses Um what we really like about Gemini as a as a school district is that it um we're a Google district if you will So we have Google we have Gmail we
have Google Docs Google Sheets Google Meets that we're on now Um so uh we we get that through our Google Workspace accounts Um and when when for example when I use Gemini um anything I enter
into it is because it's through my school district account is never is never accessible by anyone on the internet Um it's never used for advertising purposes Um you may have heard the term training AI So what they do is they take all the results of all
their searches and all the information and they use those patterns to train the next uh iteration of their model Google does not use any information entered into their Google edu accounts for that Um and it's never shared with anyone else other users other institutions
which is why we like Gemini because it keeps us safe We should never enter student specific data in with student names and things like that However if that does happen we're protected That student's data is protected because it's never shared with anyone So that's why
we like Gemini uh within the district Um but but that brings me to a concept of the walled garden I know there's no text on this page It's just a picture Um uh when we talk about AI we think of this walled garden concept where students could go into the garden
and use the tools and everything in the garden to learn and grow However there's a wall around that garden that protects the students from anything malicious coming in as well as anything they put into the system from going out like I just mentioned with the Gemini accounts
Um so we tend to think of that walled garden as where we really want to go with anything we're introducing to our students especially with AI So on that note we have KIGO So KIGO
checks all the boxes for us of that walled garden because well I'll go through a few reasons Number one it's developed by Khan Academy Khan Academy is a trusted resource used by teachers and students for almost two decades now worldwide
[Music] Um we have an agreement with Khan Academy that's similar to the Gemini uh Google Workspace U program where anything our students or our staff put into Conigo through Khan Academy is
never shared with anyone else It's never used for training It's safe Um the other thing we like about KIGO is it re well I'm gonna go through it and show you how cool it is This is actually very very helpful for our teachers and our
students Um you can see Saul Khan on the bottom right corner If you don't know his story um about 20 years ago his his cousins were going through some math courses they were really struggling and he was uh computer science guy and
biology guy and uh he started uh teaching them over the phone and then he started creating some videos on YouTube almost 20 years ago and it kind of really took off and a lot of his other family members wanted to use those videos and that's where Khan Academy came from Well uh it just so happened
Salon knows the creator of Open AI I forget his name right now Um Sam something Sam Alman Sam Alman thank you thank you Miss Smeckla um and when open AI came out Sam went over to Saul and
said hey we have this new AI let's see if you can use it if it'll help students I'm sure the conversation went a little differently was a lot longer than that um but so Khan Khan Academy started playing with OpenAI very quickly um and they've been iterating it making it
better and better for students they're non profit which is the other checkbox for us They're not out to make tons of money They're they're really here living their mission to help students worldwide And that's that's why we love Khan
Academy So let me dive in Um so I said this earlier Con Migo um is used by all of our high school and middle school students and then all of our elementary middle and high school teachers have access to it Um uh Con Migo is just basically a
little chat bot on the bottom right side of the Khan Academy screen where students or teachers can ask for support or questions or coaching But it's not just that chatbot There's so much more And let me let me give you some a few examples
So these are the conigo tools uh just nine of the many conigo tools available for teachers and Khan Academyy's uh in my experience what I've seen is their goal for teachers is to help make them more efficient so they have more time uh
they're not spending so much time on all the paperwork and other things they're able to spend more time with students Um here you see nine examples of some of the tools they provide Each is a version of conigo that's very specified on the
task For example um uh that middle box there clear directions You can give it uh give conigo these are my directions I want to give my students and it'll make them very clear and concise for you especially if you tell them what grade level Um
um the on the bottom left we have exit tickets Exit tickets are used by teachers all across the district to make sure that the students learn what they learn before they leave their class hence an exit ticket This exit ticket app will create that for the teachers
very quickly Um on the bottom right there's an IEP assistant um that teachers can use ESC coordinators can use to help craft IEPs um not not write them you know but just help help craft the goals and things
like that Um there's another uh tool not shown here which I really like called the leveler Um you could pop in any piece of text Let's say I was a fifth grade teacher Um but I had students that were reading on the third grade level and some were reading on the eighth grade level With this tool I can take a
paragraph uh an essay pop it into the leveler and I say it's it'll be the same topic but I want this for a student reading on a third grade reading level And it'll change the text down to a third grade reading level or it can increase it up to a seventh or eighth
grade reading level which is very helpful and very quick Um KIGO does continue to add many many tools for the teachers Um it seems like almost every week um they add a new tool Um and it's
very very helpful Um now for our students they have lots of learner activities It's not just a little chatbot on the bottom right Although that chatbot is very helpful and I'll tell you why I have my I have my youngest daughter is a junior right now
in high school Um she's very shy She's coming out of her shell Don't worry But she doesn't like to raise her hand and ask questions in class What she can do is she can ask Kigo the question instead and KIGO can help clarify for her Um and
she she uses all the time She loves it So um kind of looking at this screen some of the learning learner activities available on the left side we see there's a tutor me So if a student wants to learn more be you know get tutored on any topic they can go to the tutor me
section like math and science uh or what should I learn next Um the second column is refresh is practicing my knowledge So it gives them little questions on things they learned I'm going to come back to the writing and the writing coach in a
second Um the debate is very helpful for students who want you may maybe need to debate or be able to write uh up you know uh better essays Um the chat is very interesting there Um Kigo built a a
tool where a student can chat with a literary character or with a historical figure So think about you know all the book great books our students are reading and they want to get more in depth and learn more about it They can ask Kamiga to take the you know um take
on the persona of oh I had a good example and I lost it Um uh maybe Riley from Diary of Wimpy Kid if anyone knows that those stories Um any of the characters in the book and Kigo can talk to them just like that
character Um it's very powerful and very helpful for our students Uh what what's really powerful too is this is built over on top of the Khan Academy resources and videos that have been around for a long time that keep getting updated So really
makes a powerful learning tool for our students and a helpful tool for us teachers So let's talk about the writing coach I mentioned that um we think this writing coach through Khan Academy through Kanigo is going to be really uh
uh groundbreaking for uh teachers all across the world and our students Um what this does is um you can take the prompt from the teacher um and pop it into the writing coach and then the writing coach will help the students
work through their planning outlining and drafting and editing Um but what it also does if we provided a rubric or has its own rubrics if the teacher wants you to focus on certain things to improve an essay you can ask it to give you
feedback And in in this example it may be a little bit hard to see but there's a a sentence in the second paragraph that's highlighted For instance scheduling becomes a nightmare particularly for businesses and individuals who work across different time zones It's a persuasive essay If
you look at the top right I'll read it for you It's a little small It's in blue It says "While your vocabulary is generally appropriate for the subject there are places where it could be more precise For example in paragraph 2 you use the word nightmare to describe the scheduling complications caused by DST
Can you think of a more precise word that would convey the same idea?" Kind of like what a tutor or a coach would do with a student Kigo does that for the students But then you might be wondering well is it just giving the students the answers Is it helping them
cheat No it is not So there's two things going on this slide I'm going to break up break it up into two areas The first is on the left side Um actually let's go into the middle And you see there's a paragraph highlighted in red On the left side if you notice it gives a history of
what's been changed in this essay For that highlighted section it's calling it an originality flag It said "Pasted 58 words from an unknown source." So if the student didn't type this paragraph in but copy and pasted it KIGO is going to
notify the teacher that something's not right here That's pretty cool Now on the right side you see a little bit of the chat with Kigo and it says "Hi Kigo saying hi it's time for you to start writing You can use your outline to help guide your draft I'm here if you get
stuck or need support." Then the student says,"Can you just write the next paragraph for me?" And its response is "As a tutor my role is to guide you in writing your essay rather than writing it for you However I can certainly help you figure out how to structure your
next paragraph." So um students might be trying to ask for the answers but KIGO is going to coach them and tutor them as a real life tutor would to help the growth of KIGO across our district Um we've started the KIGO ambassador program which uh basically a
train the trainer model uh where we take uh uh expert teachers on different campuses train them up as a conigo ambassador give them the tools to help train their fellow teachers and then through a title four grant we're able to pay them compensate them for that work
done outside of ours um um it's really powerful and those Kamigo ambassadors are really good teachers um I had the opportunity to attend and uh the educational technology conference a few weeks ago we had a special session for our KNIGO ambassadors to meet with the
Khan Academy engineers and give them feedback on how to make KIGO better And let me tell you they gave a lot of great feedback Those are some awesome teachers Um so that's helping us uh um spread the good word about KIGO and get help more
teachers use it more effectively Um this is my last slide Um kind of focus on KIGO there but we did talk about another number of different AI tools Um I'm going to tell you this from personal experience but we did hear this
from Ethan Mollik He's a big name in AI out there The single most thing useful thing you can do to understand AI is to use it He says spend 10 hours using AI and task I would say try using it every day Um I find it's very helpful for me It saves me time so I have more time to
spend on those really high you know high cognitive you know things I really need to think about So um I challenge you to use an AI um as you know every day for a week or two and see what makes you
realize Um and with that that is the end of our presentation Other questions Oh I got some questions Um Miss McQuinn Okay So as just a regular person um not and somewhat
technologically challenged what would how would I start What would be my first thing to do to even use AI What would I do Sure So you can um go on your computer or go on your
um there's free versions of Gemini of chatgpt Okay Yeah So you can go and type in gemini.google.com google.com I believe or just search for Gemini and it'll come up Now the free version is not going to be the most powerful version of the tool
However they're getting better and better each each every few months so it's still going to be pretty good um for you to start getting your feet wet Um if you pay like I pay for a chat GPT I have on my phone personally that's going to be the latest model Um but
definitely using those free versions would uh definitely be helpful for you Thank you Mrs McQuinn And just to piggyback on that like when you're just starting off do something that's relevant to your life Like um a fun thing to do is okay these are the
ingredients that I have in my refrigerator and I want to make a nice dinner Um but I don't want to spend three hours prepping it Like I have these 10 ingredients What can I make and give me five suggestions right And it
will it'll do that for you And it it's amazing And it comes up with some good recipes too You should just Google that I have these ingredients So here they Yeah But then you can say you know like it'll give you five recipes right And
then you say you know what I do not like I don't want seafood in it Because it might like mention something that you don't like or you're allergic to and you can iterate on that specific recipe and it can change it up for you It's the one thing that we always tell people is
don't think about it as a search engine like Google Think about it as a conversation with the most patient person you've ever met in your entire life And they will continually talk you through it and you can just go back and forth until you find exactly what you want They're never going to get
frustrated They're never going to get upset they're just gonna spend that time you know with you and getting to where you need to be Rachel I have two questions So my first question is um when you use something
like chat GBT or even Grammarly and let's say your student has done a college essay um I've been very hesitant to have the child run that through chat GBT because doesn't that become part of the database and therefore would then
later be identified by a college as plagiarism even though it was initially written by that child Do you understand my concerns and do you think that's a valid concern or not a valid concern Um I think Mr Smeck will probably jump
in on this but um you know uh I think first off you said that student wrote the essay themselves right Um kind of like Kigo gives that you know that writing coach piece can give them feedback Um that might be an appropriate use of it Um I think it would be cheating if the student didn't write it
at all and just had you know um um Chad GPT write it for them Um you know this is part of our you know things we're talking about in the district with our AI policy like what is cheating right And um you know how how do we navigate
that with our students It goes back to the ethical use of it Um um but I'm not sure about the college essay I wonder if Mrs Smack can provide some insight with that So I can jump in Um if the student wrote the essay and they're asking for
feedback if they're using Google Gemini or Conigo to receive feedback after they've written the essay that is their work and it would be just like asking for feedback from Dr Miller or myself That you know AI is just providing the
feedback So in that sense it's not plagiarism and it's also not to your concern being trained The next model is not being trained It's not taking in that information um that the student put in because we have the terms of service
for our Google Gemini and for Conigo Now if they were doing it with Chad GBT that model is going to train on anything that they put in which is why the school district is providing safe places for students to get introduced to
AI and to be able to use AI you know safely Okay that's wonderful to hear because I was always concerned um because I did not let my child use chat GBT but I did not know about KIGO or um that you had a
Gemini platform that would be that wouldn't allow it to learn So my question to you is are you rolling this out in a certain grade Um my daughter's already a senior so are you rolling this out to sixth graders to all have a training on this like what grade is the
training going on Is there curriculum based for a certain age or or is it just the teacher introduces at their own whim So for Conigo it is grades 6 through 12 Um we rolled that out to them at the beginning of this past school year We
did a pilot last year Um and the teachers received the instruction with um they were provided with slide decks and information on um how to train the students to use Conigo Additionally there is inside of Khan Academy there's
a course that students can take It's an asynchronous uh self-paced course where they can um also learn more about it Gemini is pretty brand new Frontier stuff that we're just rolling out Um we only rolled it out to teachers Students
do not have access to Google Gemini in our district at this point Um as a parent you can sign them up for an account if they're age 13 or older but right now we are being very cautious with this new technology Um and so
that's why our um as Dr Miller said you know we wanted to start with one trusted partner with Khan Academy and that's where we've started So our Gemini and at this point is only for teachers within the school district However as a parent you can choose to have your your child
sign up for a Gemini account that would also be protected with those same safeguards So should we expect our students in our English class to get one at least one assignment with K uh with Kamigo or is that it's not at that level yet So Con
Migo you can uh they have coursework for all of the different content areas So they have math science social studies English Depending on the teacher they could um be assigning them conigo activities within So let's say um in
math and I learned a lesson and the teacher assigns here's five problems for you to work with your KIGO tutor So you can have it for writing and for math and for all the other content areas Y thank you
[Music] Okay Uh Sheila actually Christine you were next Sorry Thanks Um so I use chat GPT and other forms of AI pretty regularly right now
Um I mean if you have an iPhone it's like literally baked right into your iPhone Um so I'm just wondering this next generation of kids are pretty tech-savvy like immediately out of the
womb it seems Um they use a lot of technology a lot of their day Um so their introduction to AI is probably going to be happening on their own like at home using their phone um before
sixth grade Um so what is the district I know this is a lot of encouragement and introduction to using this AI but what is the district doing in terms of like
detecting the use of AI and work being turned in like because you can literally take an entire textbook textbook and ask chat GPT to summarize the chapters for you spit out like you know whole papers for you on topics you just need a
detailed enough prompts and they will even pull in the sources that they've used and make it into a an entire like doctoral thesis if you wanted it to look like that So I think this technology is great if you know how to ethically use
it but for a lot of students that are using this on their own on their phone already like what's the what is the district doing to make sure they are
actually reading doing the work still So that's where um why teachers will never be replaced I mean there's many reasons why teachers will never ever be replaced by AI Um but that's our teachers come in because they know their students So um
when I was a fifth grade teacher I'll go back to that example I knew my students if one of the students um was you know reading and writing on a fifth grade reading level which is appropriate and all of a sudden had this college level essay they turned in I knew there was
something wrong there Um I think that's one piece of that puzzle Um again we've said this is brand new I mean this is really new Um we are learning as we go Unfortunately there are no AI detectors that will confidently and um uh every
100% of the time identifies something was created with AI Um but that's where those the teachers knowing their students will know if that's the type of work that student typically produces um is one way to do that
And then I guess just to follow up on that I'm sure there's going to be I guess more support needed to be given to you know school staff to have those difficult conversations with students and parents that like you know
this isn't your work Um and it so I mean yeah just a concern Uh we hear you Uh we have those same concerns and we're we're talking about that as well Um and looking for
ways to to work through that Uh but again our teachers um are the best defense But but we hear you Uh Sheila you have a question Uh not really a question but to follow up on
what Christine uh was speaking about that is one of the biggest challenges for professors in college is at what point is the paper no longer the students but AI's
paper and AI detection is difficult as it evolves it gets harder and harder harder to really identify if somebody is plagiarizing except for what Adam you
mentioned The professor knows the students written voice so they can think there's something not right with the paper but it is getting more difficult So that's why I continue to go back to
helping students understand the ethical use of it Um because they're going to use it So professors are going to have to embrace it in their lessons because it
will be used and when they go into the marketplace they are going to be expected to know how to use AI So little bit of a dilemma Yeah I mean we want them to see the AI
as a support for their learning The same way that when a calculator came out or the internet came out there's going to be students who always want to use it as a shortcut But you know our goal in education is to teach the students to
use it as a support and enhance their learning So how are you teaching students to identify Well I guess students and teachers to identify when the AI hallucinates Oh so go ahead I think Miss Mlo was going to say
so again we don't have um Chad GPT or Google Gemini open to our students currently Um all that we do have is Conigo and KIGO is trained on all of the course content within Khan Academy So the hallucinations we don't really see
that within that program teaching about hallucinations and bias though is an important factor within AI because we have seen that the models are getting better but however depending on what they're trained on um that is something that we've been thinking about
and talking about for introducing into our techsafe program but we currently don't have those um types of AI available to our students if that makes sense did I answer your question it it
does but knowing that our students um and teachers have access to AI outside of KMIGO and and the district approved um AI program of KIGO
Um I I think it's great that you're talking about including this into safe practices but I think it's important to do because even if they were to take their phone and do a Google search you get you know that AI response
um right off the bat and if they don't realize that they still need to go in and double check that information off and make sure it's coming from a reputable site that they could end up deciding that there is nutritional content in rocks or whatever it may be
you know that kind of thing because if you still ask you know how many rocks should I eat per day it'll give you an answer Yeah I agree with you And I I do remember that one being in the news Um yeah rocks on pizza I think it was Um I
I believe that that you know is the case with with a lot of different technologies So right it's not just AI like you can do internet searches and come up with all kinds of false information So it is about teaching our students how to be critical thinkers um
how to evaluate and vet sources and that's something that as educators you know we we've been working on for decades So that's going to we're going to continue to do that Okay Thank you Are there um I don't know if anyone
saw that Charmaine Posul was trying to join the meeting She's been in the waiting room She's in the meeting Oh great Okay Um does anybody else have any questions Okay thank you Um I believe at the end of last meeting we talked about
uh upcoming possible upcoming topics and one of the items we talked about was the um closing over the hopefully closing of the opportunity gaps over time um and to
get information of that and have a great night and thank you so much for coming We really appreciate you being here um and thank you very much for your presentation It was very interesting Thanks for having us We appreciate it Uh don't hesitate to reach out Take care
Thank you Um so um is that still on the calendar for the next month's uh presentation We had several that we identified as
possible several topics So let me see where this one is because I I know we're in the time frame for the master board planning So it seemed like this would be good to have in dovetail with that timing
Yep I have it We had like an expansion of let me see here All right We can definitely touch base on that to make sure we'll start working towards that presentation Okay great Um does anybody have any other
questions or comments Okay Is there a motion to adjurnn This is Christine Motion to adjurnn Thank you Anyone seconding it This is second party last night
Thank you Have a great night everyone Good night Byebye Good night Meetings journed