Nicole Acevedo, a 15-year-old student, used artificial intelligence to help write her quinciñera speech and to complete homework when she delays starting assignments. Her school in the Greenpoint/Williamsburg area of Brooklyn adopted AI tools with the goal of supplementing learning rather than replacing teachers. A tool called Connectink, created by the school's chief academic officer Rahul Patel with advisement from the Center for Professional Education of Teachers at Columbia University, functions as an on-demand writing coach offering sentence starters, prompts, and immediate feedback. City and federal plans to expand classroom AI raise concerns about cheating and racial bias, and recent findings show bias in tools for planning, differentiation, and administrative tasks. The Center researched a pilot involving about 360 students at three high schools.
Like many students, Nicole Acevedo has come to rely on artificial intelligence. The 15-year-old recently used it to help write her speech for her quinciñera. When she waits too long on completing homework, Nicole admitted, she leans on the technology so she can hand assignments in on time. Her school, located in the Greenpoint/Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, has also embraced artificial intelligence. But it is hoping to harness it in ways that supplement learning rather than supplant it.
Called Connectink, the tool acts like an on-demand writing coach, providing students with such support as sentence starters when they get stuck, or prompts to encourage them to stretch their work using dialogue, descriptions, or rhetorical questions. It seeks to provide immediate feedback for students since educators can only provide so much attention to individual students in a given period.
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