<h2 id="decide-whether-ai-use-needs-to-be-addressed-with-parents-3″>Decide whether the use of ai must be addressed with parents?
The first step to discuss the use of ai in schools with parents is to decide whether that discussion needs or not, says Winnick.
Winnick rhetorically asks if teachers generally tell parents about each time they use a different technology tool. Since the answer is no, your follow -up question is: “Would you tell the parents that you were using a calculator? So, would you have to reveal that you are using ai?”
In some environments, educators may want to explain the ai tools used in the classroom for parents, but it is not always necessary, especially because a school with good research procedures for technological tools will already take into account the safety and privacy of students by approving any technological tool.
<h2 id="educate-students-and-their-parents-by-teaching-ai-literacy-3″>Educate students and their parents teaching literacy of ai
Winnick has not heard of any father concerned with the use of ai in his district, but if such concerns arise, he says that the key to answering questions that could arise is to thoroughly educate students about their interactions with ai.
“It's about educating students about ai literacy, so that way, if the father asks them, 'Why are you doing that?' Or 'Why are you using that?' The child can say with great confidence and eloquent: 'Oh, this is a tool, I used to help me with my writing; “then, hopefully, that child will relieve any of those fears or concerns with their parents. Therefore, the answer to most questions returns to the education and education of students and teachers, and parents. “
Always answer the questions that arise
Sometimes, educating a student about ai literacy is not enough, and parents have questions about technology and how they are being used with their children.
“If a father reaches a teacher or the director or the district and expresses concern, as with anything else, whether technology or something else, it is always important to address parents' concerns,” says Winnick.
In this case, he points out that a strategy could be to remind parents that they and their children are probably interacting with a form of ai. “At home, many children have Siri or Alexa correct, and they will ask Siri or Alexa questions, so what is the difference if they are in class?” Winnick says.
<h2 id="remind-parents-of-the-power-of-ai-as-a-tutor-3″>Remember parents the power of ai as tutor
Of course, another way in which the use of ai in schools for parents can explain is explaining the potential power of technology as a tutor.
“In a public school, we cannot provide each child a tutor one by one, it is not possible,” says Winnick. “But with ai they can at least answer all your questions. ai can provide more challenging questions, or if they do not understand, you can break it down, and start providing more support than any other teacher could do on your own. And it is also taking data from that chatbot and providing it with the teacher, so the teacher knows who was fighting or not fighting.”
ai can also customize the answers you use to connect with the interests of the students. For example, if a student likes baseball, ai could frame an explanation using an analogy with that sport, says Winnick.
<h2 id="share-ai-success-3″>Share ai's success
For Winnick, ai's effectiveness in the classroom is not hypothetical; She has witnessed that it helps many students.
“It's a transformative for my English students as a new language,” she says.
Winnick adds that while the ai tools that work with high school and secondary students are often the focus, it says that ai can also do wonders with younger students.
“As a former early childhood educator, I spent my last year in a kindergarten classroom; those children have so many questions and a teacher does not have an infinite patience to deal with the thousand questions they are receiving all the time, but the ai does it,” she says. “So, when that child is very curious, you don't want to exploit that creativity; you really want to enable that. With ia, they can ask as many questions as you want.”
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