Just try to have a conversation about edTech these days without mentioning AI. Ryan Imbriale, PowerSchool’s vice president of education solutions, and I took about five minutes to fall apart. To be fair, Powerschool’s announcement this week that it will integrate Microsoft Azure Open AI Service using OpenAI’s big language models within the company’s personalized learning cloud will likely be the biggest news to come out of ISTE next week. Take a listen and scroll down to see some edited highlights:
The details:
Powerschool will use Microsoft Azure Open AI Service to use the great OpenAI language models within PowerSchool Performance Matters and PowerSchool LearningNav, part of the PowerSchool Personalized Learning Cloud.
According to Powerschool, the generative AI functionality will save educators a significant amount of time by providing them with AI-generated assessment items within the PowerSchool Performance Matters formative assessment solution aligned to a desired learning objective, grade level, subject, and standard. , which the teacher can use to deliver more frequent formative assessments at scale.
I think it’s important to note that we came to this work around personalizing the experience with generative AI by also saying that we want to do it the right way. We want to be responsible. As recently as early May, we announced that we were partnering with the Teach AI Advisory Committee to make sure that whatever work we’re doing as a company is truly aligned with responsibility and making sure that we’re making the right decisions.
—Ryan Imbriale
Instead of spending hours creating assessment items, building items with built-in AI technology will reduce this effort to minutes. AI-generated assessment items will be complemented by AI-powered Adaptive Testing on performance issues to better understand each student’s proficiency and personalized instruction needs. The educator can then leverage generative AI within the PowerSchool LearningNav product to create multiple-choice questions within diagnostic tests customized to each student’s proficiency level to aid instruction and measure progress against learning objectives. learning.
Do you want to delve into what Microsoft’s Azure technology is? Check out this recent conversation I had with your team for news from our sister site eCampus. While the focus is on higher education, it is applicable everywhere.
Are you going to ISTE? power school will host a free happy hour event after the first full day of ISTELive ’23. The happy hour will feature a panel of K-12 teachers, leaders, and former educators discussing generative AI, learning loss, personalized learning, and other factors impacting the educational space.
In addition to hosting the panel, Ryan will share exclusive findings from the upcoming 2023 Education Focus Report (sourced from over 1,300 district leaders, educators, and administrators). Happy hour will be from 5:30-7:30 pm ET on Monday, June 26 at The Liberty View Independence Center (a 10-minute walk from ISTE/Philadelphia Convention Center).
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