001I K12 deeper learning Summit my name is Brian bsky I'm the director of Arts education for the Anaheim Union High School District and I'm excited to serve as your voice for the event today we hope you're enjoying your breakfast and making some new friends we have nearly 700 educational leaders in attendance from 31 States Canada South Africa and even Germany now I'd like to introduce you to our MC for the a12 deeper learning Summit Anaheim Union High School District superintendent Mr Michael matsuda superintendent matsuda is a nationally recognized 21st century educational leader known for Innovation entrepreneurship and compassion under his leadership ahsd has built a new educational model along with several teacher leaders higher ed nonprofit Partners supporting the development of Pathways to Career preparedness student voice and purpose through a focus on instruction now
002with the Advent of AI Michael matsuda believes we are at an Oppenheimer moment in educational history a moment in which AI can Empower or undermine Humanity please welcome superintendent Michael matsuda thank you thank you very much welcome to the National AI K12 deeper learning Summit we are so happy to host so many educational leaders from around the country and around the world it is indeed an Oppenheimer moment Robert Oppenheimer of course is widely known as the father of the nuclear bomb and he lived a life of great remorse one of his quotes that struck me and reflects this particular particular moment is that The Optimist thinks this is the best of all possible Worlds the pessimist fears it is true during this Summit I ask you to be both an optimist and a pessimist because
003as you know the stakes are too high and we need to be both aspirational and skeptical and we need to challenge ourselves in and our teams on what should be our next steps I'd like to thank my fellow co-chairs for providing the vision and Leadership to make this event happen Jean clar bzar the CEO digital promise let's give it up D [Applause] frad Alex Coan the CEO of aieedu Alex [Applause] in June on the brilliant Professor from the UCI Irvine School of [Applause] Education we teamed up nine months ago and launched this effort together and everyone leaned into the effort and created the outstanding content you will experience over the next day and a half I can't thank you all enough for your part parnership and friendship I'd like to also thank all of our
004convening sponsors and Grant supporters Google for Education we have love working with Google on this Summit and we have over 800 students enrolled in the fabulous Google certificates program that deserves a round of applause another amazing convenient partner is the Chan Zuckerberg initiative the folks yes the folks at czi truly understand the importance of using technology to enhance student voice and whole child education the Stewart Foundation are longtime co- collaborators in our efforts to build a community Community Centric Justice and Equity centered school district and finally e Cadence Learning Foundation our nonprofit learning platform that has brought to our district a paradigm shifting tool strengthening student learning across the district with cuttingedge AI infused features and of course this would not we would not be here if it weren't for the vision of Vice chairman
005of the Orange County Board of its supervisors Doug chaffy we're going to hear from Doug in a few moments in the Anaheim Union High School District we often start events with a little breathing exercise so please I invite you to Center your bodies close your eyes and take a bre breath with me fill your lungs taking in oxygen The Gift of Life think about that as you take another breath think about what it means to be human now as we continue to breathe keep your eyes closed and listen to a story in Greek mythology Prometheus was the god of fire he disobeyed the king of the Gods Zeus and dared give fire to man now why did he do that man has since used fire for both good and evil but for that serious transgression
006Zeus banished Prometheus to an island forever having his liver pecked on by vultures for the next two days during this Summit imagine that you are Prometheus before the banishment in the hungry vulture of course and you have this amazing gift called artificial intelligence take a breath and please open your eyes and like Prometheus We Didn't Start the [Music] Fire turn singri turn singri singri turn sing elri s s do it again do it again my robotic brain oh [Music] all the same all the [Music] same do it again do it again caution approximately 5 seconds remaining till effect size 4 3 2 1 warning warning warning [Music] warning go all the way againi expion [Music] leing parade Michael phelp Johnson Kanye W us string [Music] ever he was always since the world weight tville electric
007Jeff basil clate change goes Pacific patch Al miles Avatar selfing electric cars Sr I Prince and the queen D World Trade play what else do I have to say we was always [Applause] [Music] still upload completed [Applause] wow let's give it up for Oscar Gonzalez and his incredible Anaheim High School dance team AI this new type of fire has vast potential for improving human lives and the potential for the opposite as well as educational leaders our job is to train and develop the next generation of thoughtful ethical and productive citizens the challenge is the reason we are here it's all about becoming more human folks and speaking of a wonderful human I want to introduce my friend dog chaffy our Visionary Vice chairman of the Orange County Board of supervisor who truly gets it when
008we went to Doug with his I this idea to host an AI education Summit he did not hesitate Doug was the first one to pledge a convening sponsorship of [Applause] $100,000 he understands the importance of our Educators staying on The Cutting Edge of innovation and quality instruction we are fortunate to be represented this morning by Doug and his capable team give it up for his team too they're [Applause] amazing i' like to now invite my friend Doug chaffy to say a few words thank you Doug [Applause] you know if that dance doesn't light your fire I don't know what will that was just fabulous good morning I'm Doug chaffy Vice chairman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors Orange County has 34 cities 28 school districts 3.1 million people which makes us larger in population
009in 22 States I'm privileged to be one of five people to run the county and that includes 18,000 employees to serve you so it's a certain honor to be here with this tremendous crowd from some fabulous places coming together in common to study about Ai and how we can promote that through education so among the statistics we do have people from three countries 31 States and 100 school districts I want to particularly thank the Anaheim High School District we giv me an opportunity to be part of this ground baking Summit uh I didn't create the idea but I was very pleased when it was given to me to be one of the early people to support it this will help us everywhere including my County so we're lucky to have a Visionary education thinker like
010Mike massuda who really desist most of the credit for this and I'd like to give him a round of applause so we've been joined together here by Educators and leaders who are not just observers but active architects of the future of Education you all be embarking on a journey of Discovery as we explore the opportunities that AI presents it is a realm where the traditional boundary of classrooms textbooks are redefined and limits of learning are expanded Beyond imagination you're here not just to witness change but to actually shape it to collaboratory design and educate your future that empowers students and equips them with the skills needed to thrive in the 21st century as you navigate the sessions and discussions that lie ahead let us embrace the opportunity unities that AI presents while being mindful of
011the ethical considerations very important that accompany such advancements our goal is not just to integrate technology into education but to do so with a profound understanding of impact on students teachers and the community that we all serve at this Forefront of your minds think about ethics something called algorithmic bias which is sometimes built into that system data privacy and how technology can be harmful as it relates to AI now I can't go through a script without departing it from it uh let me share with you two experiences recently I've had a shoulder repaired how was that done a CAT scan was done to my shoulder the data was fed into a computer with the help of a 3D 3D printer the part I needed to prepare my shoulder was created using I think titanium powder
012through that process that is how AI technology at its finest can help human beings in medicine and a lot of other places but there's the other side of that yes there really is a dark web recently our district attorney had a Cyber attack of his website somehow his his uh password got out and in the we hours of the morning there was someone in there looking fortunately it was discovered early so there was not much damage but still the system had to be shut down while experts came in to be sure there wasn't something implanted that could later be harmful during that process they also looked at the dark web to see if there's anything there and yes they found what appeared to be some data from the Orange County District Attorney's office so I
013learned that process process there are actually broke deal with people in the dark web and through the broker we're able to buy that off the web using Bitcoin so it's very untraceable so I mention that because there's some jobs out there for important future called cyber security some of the finest young minds need to get into that and it will pay very well so I want to express my gratitude to all of you for your commitment to this transformative cause your education and passion that made Gatherings like this not just a conference but a catalyst for change together let's engage in meaningful dialogue share best practices and Foster collaborations those pave the way for future where artif pardon me artificial intelligence and education work hand in hand to unlock the full potential of every learner
014so AI can be used for good and for bad for the good of the human race and moving us forward in imaginable ways and all of you are the Genesis of that when you educate your students so thank you all for coming everybody one more round of applause for Doug chaffy our [Music] [Applause] supervisor for nearly a decade we and the Anaheim Union High School District have placed our focus on the Northstar of developing students to be F fully human ready for successful careers and college and to be active citizens after all it's all about all of us being better neighbors better parents better workers better leaders and more than ever better citizens Aon I is now part of that focus and we are integrating AI tools into our schools because we believe understanding AI
015will be integral to students personal and professional lives and that's why I am so excited to have this next panel of amazing experts come on stage and share their insights and wisdom with you take a breath in and enjoy the rest of the conference thank you very [Applause] [Music] much thank you superintendent matsuda for your inspiration this morning and for that terrific segue into the next part of our morning together so now prepare to be informed and enlightened during our fireside chat a panel discussion featuring some of the most influential Minds in education and Technology we're proud to welcome jeanclaude bzar zard CEO of digital promise Alex Alex kran CEO of AIU and Dr Mary Joe Mata senior program manager for Google as our distinguished panelists Emma gagos an esteemed equity in education reporter at
016edsource will moderate the discussion guiding us through an insightful conversation about the future of AI in K12 education and it's broader impact on [Applause] society take it away Emma all right good morning everyone um I'm excited to be your moderator um for this excellent panel where we will explore The overarching Narrative of how artificial intelligence is reshaping the educational landscape and its implications for school leaders Educators and students our experts will delve into the transformative potential of AI in enhancing learning experiences and outcomes the challenges and opportunities it presents and the ethical considerations that come with its integration full disclosure in the spirit of this conference we had chat gbt craft this introduction and brainstorm some questions I think it performed admirably but I'm not worried about it coming for my job yet now let's
017get started okay chat gbt made a splash when it arrived on the scene many schools and teachers responded with blanket bands treating it like the equivalent of academic the academic equivalent of steroids now most guidance that I've seen recommends against bands so my question to you is um how blanket bands may affect marginalized students so I'm happy to start um hi everybody I'm Dr Mary damata still very weird to say that because I just got my doctorate last June so um congrats the impostor syndrome is real also please continue to keep going to your primary care physici um so um in my experience the work that I do at Google I sit on a team for um it's called education for social impact and um I'm one of the program managers for an Afterschool computer
018science program for black Latino Hispanic and Indigenous high school students um we're actually going to be opening up an Englewood uh an Englewood based lab so if anybody's interested let me know um but one of the things that in all of the research that I've learned is oh now we're in the dark whoa all right this took on a very different kind of vibe um is that uh when you look at the impact of tool wide bands on certain populations of students it tends to affect students in lowincome versus high income situations um I myself had a very direct experience with this UCLA sent out an email to every single student and said please do not use generative AI tools it is the equivalent of getting help from another person and cheating and in my
019mind I thought but if students are unable to go to the tutoring center on the UCLA campus Because it closes at 5:00 pm every night because they have to work a second job or go home to take care of their families I mean what are they supposed to do um in my opinion I think one of the biggest issues is that uh according to a study from the US Department of um I think of was Cu uh Human and Health Services 57% of low-income households have internet and the average megabytes uh per second are 25 whereas with high income it's about 85% and it's an average of 100 megabytes per second so if you have schoolwide bans on AI what ends up happening is the kids that have access to good internet and tools at
020home are just going to have better access to those tools in general whereas the students that don't have Wi-Fi and device access at home are not so the question is do we want to continue to be a part of the exacerbation or do we want to try to address it in a healthy responsible and community-driven way so so I get this question a lot lot and I think when people ask me this question they're expecting me to say oh yeah you know we absolutely need to lift these bands it's all about Ai and schools and and I often have to remind people that so so I'm the CE of the AI education project and we're a nonprofit focused on um bringing AI literacy to k12 and and really empowering students and teachers with all the
021Knowledge and Skills that they need to thrive in a world with AI but that doesn't mean that we're the AI implementation project and we actually don't go to schools and advocate for using AI tools that's not really the first conversation that we start with um so I actually think in many cases if not most cases schoolwide bans on chat GPT is the right move if I was a superintendent I would I would ban chat GPT because uh it's very reasonable to pump the brakes while you evaluate and try to better understand what are the safeguards that we have to have in place what is the sort of Baseline knowledge and we talk about a literacy a big part of that is how do you use AI tools not just effectively but but safely and responsibly
022and it's not something that's as simple as you know a widget that you sort of install and then suddenly chat gbt is safe um this is a learn behavior that really has to be taught to teachers um and to students and so um a schoolwide ban in principle makes sense if the if the ban is part of a process of um figuring out how do we actually do this in the right way but we also know that if you graduate high school today two years from now certainly three or four years from now so if you're a freshman in high school today um if you graduate high school and you don't know how to use these tools um you know the analogy is like the computer is like a bicycle for the mind as Steve
023Jobs said um you know llm is AI it's like a sports car Supercar um you will lose the race if you're trying to compete for jobs and you don't understand how to use Ai and so the question for schools is they have to teach students how to use these tools and we can't or rely on them to build those skills at home um and so there there needs to be some plan about how do we get to a place where there's uh like trusted tools that we feel comfortable putting in front of students um because they that's the one place where we can really ensure that all students are building those skills uh equitably and responsibly so yeah and I'll take a slightly uh perhaps different different tack to um the conversation so I too
024can understand the NK reaction to to Banning and we all know the challenges on Equity uh my 11-year-old was using GPT uh when he came out I know it was there was an age requirement his entire class was using it he goes to a school in Silicon Valley so this is other the kids um and actually called a couple of my colleagues in districts who actually were Banning this stuff saying what the hell are you doing um and but for for me what it really indicated was the fact that our pedagogy was so backwards and had not evolved to a point with technology was a tool to be used in the classroom I don't know how many of you guys old enough to remember when the graphing calculator was seen as a cheating tool um
025I was teaching physics in New York City the New York State Board of region banned the graphing calculator on any assessments short few years later I became head of high schools in New York and I remember the day I got an email from my chief our chief of staff who said how quickly can you spend $50 million and I was buying TI 83s for the because it became a requirement on the test and one thing changed on the assessment show your work that was it so you think about pedagogy you think about assessment Etc if we really have evolved to a place where the technology is integrated uh into what we do every single day um it becomes a tool there's no need to ban it but if you if we are so sort of
026entrenched in the old ways of assessing kids and teaching of course it's a a cheating tool um and we can give tons of examples hopefully here some today about how AI llms Etc can be used as an enhancer um as my colleagues here U from digital PRS will tell you how we augment the intelligence of the relationship between kids students and content yeah you guys are teeing at my next question beautifully because um you know we are in kind of this experimental phase in in schools with artificial intelligence not just schools I think everything um but so I've seen some experts worry that a sort of two-tier system might iiz in the way that AI is deployed in schools with better funded schools with more time resources staff and Technology um are able to you
027know change the pedagogy as you said and come up with creative AI proof lessons that help students develop critical thinking um you know and creativity um and so here is a question from chat chbt um how can we ensure AI Technologies and education promote equity and accessibility rather than exacerbating existing dis arities somebody else want to start I'm happy to to start um so let let me first of all say that that digital Equity is is a foundation to this conversation our chief is actually here in the audience when you think about access to to powerful Technologies not weak Technologies powerful devices access to broadband uh we as a country still struggle to close that Gap um you know the pandemic should have taught us that access to so aitous access to technology is a
028critical foundation for the work um the second thing thing I'll say is that in our paraphrase Richard Elmore uh the late Richard Elmore at Harvard often said that the most important relationship in education is between teachers students in content we know really it's teachers students families in content right how you know technology or AI is augmenting the intelligence of that relationship frally is the work if we get that construct done really well and understand what it means for neurodiverse kids what it means for black and brown kids what it means for poor kids in Appalachia in part of New Mexico that that the teaching learning construct remains that what we know about what we do in teaching learning is still Paramount how you think about education technology and its integration into that mure is the
029work that we need to do and the equity discussion does not change it remains it it mors it evolves but the foundational aspect of what we do in schools uh frankly is the work that we need to keep doing yeah it's it's I mean it is a certainty right that if your your school doesn't have access to um you know AI tools let's say let's fast forward three or four years from now um there you are going to be at a disadvantage but it is not so is not so simple as well every school needs to have access to these tools and then then we've solved the equity challenge it's really um the analogy that I use is you can imagine the the the pitch when uh the self checkout machine companies were trying to
030sell the Safeway and um you know all these companies and they were probably it probably was something like you know imagine these self checkup machines it's going to free your employees to go out and interact with customers and recommend different recipes and and then fast forward to today and you know you're standing there with your hand up and this poor lady is kind of trying to rush around and sort of help deal with people's you know all the glitches that are happening and it's because um you know just because a tool can be used to increase productivity or augment people you know it depends on how you deploy the tool and so the equity conversation also needs to be really grounded in how do we use and Implement AI in a way way that empowers
031teachers to do more of the work of of their best work as Educators which is that sort of like interactive classroom uh Hands-On learning experiences where they're actually um helping to build skills and support students learning um and I think you know if if you disintermediate those two things My worry is that we get too focused on the widgets and we forget about the critical role that teachers are going to have in and really helping the the most marginalized kids 100% um I like the fact on the last question um that John brought it down to sort of a practical situation so I'm going to do that for this question I taught in uh the Third Ward in Houston Texas so as a middle school math and science teacher um and when I was teaching
032science there uh this was back during the days kind of the early days of onetoone iPad technology where that was all anybody could talk about uh no one was really talking about it in my district because we were more focused on just making sure that we could get the kids to pass the star test then I moved back to Los Angeles where I grew up and I started working at a Catholic school and the Catholic school was losing kids to the charters and the parents were coming in being like we see these schools with onetoone iPads we need to get those in Stat or we're going to look like we are falling behind and the reason that I bring that up is because I think it's easy for our minds to automatically go to like
033bilateral situations where you either have it or you don't but in both of those situations there were complexities that needed to be dealt with the conversation needed to happen in some capacity in Houston but in Los Angeles at this you know tuition based middle class income school that I was teaching at there was almost like a rush to do it because of the keeping up with the Joneses thing and frankly I think that this question comes up every time there's some sort of new tech new software new widget that comes into the Lexicon that everybody starts to think about so I would answer this probably like I answered questions on panels five years ago six years ago seven years ago which is every situation is unique and complex and you have to bring in all
034members of the community teachers parents administrators and students especially the students to figure out the best ways to integrate the new tech moving forward whether AI or anything else yeah great thanks um yeah I want to turn to um uh talking about disabled students um a survey from the center for democracy and Technology found that students with disabilities were more likely to use AI but also more likely to face discipline for using it so I'm wondering um if you have advice about how educators can thread this needle of using this powerful technology um to help a group of students who arguably might benefit from it more than anyone I I mean we really need to get away from penalizing students for using AI I mean it's like like you it's it's almost unfathomable today that
035you would penalize a student for like using Google to help with their homework um I think that ultimately in the same way that and and especially because you know a lot of the conversations that are going to be happening today are all about how do we help teachers use AI tools and the the dissonance of really thinking about okay well how do we help teachers use tools and then in the same breath talking about how do we prevent students from using those tools is is it's just it's not very logical um and students see through that so I think you know as the so the primary focus here is obviously like we need to get away from penal penalization it's also the case that you know for the accessibility Community large language models are probably
036going to be it's the group that will be among the most transformed in terms of their experience in school because the applications when you think about you know whether it's language or whether it's personalization of learning um there's significant ground that we can cover um so you know I would say this is maybe one of the most maybe top priorities for schools is like how do we figure out how to implement that well but yeah don't don't punish kids that's crazy yeah I agree I mean the opportunities for students with disabilities to use technology to further their education I mean isn't our job as Educators to provide them with every opportunity to be able to learn as much as they can I mean I the penalization thing makes me really nervous I will say that
037um about that is a coalition of diverse Learners and he was working with student voice at the time which is a nonprofit to basically Elevate the voices of students with disabilities in the edtech conversation because he felt like it wasn't happening so this kind of Echoes the answer that I had to the last question but I think bringing students with disabilities into the conversation as well to understand what their needs are and also to cocreate um good use case policies is a win-win because you automatically get the support of the family and the student and then also the educator who who is implementing it when they co-create these use case policies together um and that's something that I think is honestly advice for just AI implementation in general but especially where student I I do
038fear that students with disabilities are some of the most under asked and underc consulted um users that we have out there in K12 education right now let me talk this two different ways one is whenever I see adults punishing kids for being um creative or using using tools it means the adults afraid of the tool right so let's be clear about that um but when you think about no diverse kids or kids with with um special needs AI has great potential frankly to support those young people uh at digital pise we have a structure called the learner variable Navigator it is a learning science tool translated to actionable tools for for educators um and not being integrated into school of G Panorama um Etc the team now is looking at ways of transforming the IEP
039from a deficit based construct to a strength based document leaning on learning science um so you think about how AI can actually enhance that uh that is part of the work they're looking to do together thanks to the Oak foundation and maybe I may be helping us with that as well too we have an application in there you think about really Shifting the conversation to making that again really individualized right that could apply for all kids not just kids who special needs uh because if you listen to uh to Todd Rose he talks about every single person has a jagged learner profile no two people are the same um yet we in education treat everybody as if they are there's there's an average person the three-hour test Etc it's about the average kid or the
040average person no such thing so AI I think has the potential there to really help us get to what we've been espousing for decades right personalized instruction but leaning on that kind of technology to support support again leaning on learning science to support the individual child that is in action and we're trying to develop tools for that right now digital promise I'm so glad that you brought up Todd Rose Todd R has anybody read the end of average by Todd Rose it's a great book isn't it Todd Rose is a professor um at the Harvard graduate school he he left oh he left yes that's okay he needs to spread his wings um but his book The End Of average is is a great read and I think actually very pertinent to this conversation so
041if you're looking for a new you know book for your book club sorry to everybody else in the book club but suggest that one yeah he he has several but that is the best book I've seen it's called the in of average uh but really cat you to understand this idea of the Jag Lo profile of each person and how in every industry we've built stuff around the average person education is the most notorious for the aage for the average person but AI I think has the potential technology has a potential here to really help us to get to the individual needs of individual children if you have a second again it's a free tool on our website called learner variability Ator LVN or lvp take a look at it uh you can look at
042third grade literacy to high to all the way up to high school and math Etc it really helps you understand in the technology AI is only going to put that on steroids great all right um let's turn to algorithms okay so generative AI output is only as good as his input um and we've seen as technology gets rolled out not just with artificial intelligence um it has these biases the same biases that humans do so racis sexism homophobia a ableism um or it could just flat out be inappropriate so what can Educators do to ensure that they're bringing tools into the classroom that are both appropriate and inclusive so I'm going to start with this but I'm kind of curious for your take on this um as well so um I I I it it
043concerns me that many times when we talk about algorithmic bias the conversation goes something like well we need to just solve algorithm bias and then once we solve that then we can use these tools and I would pause it to you that we will probably never fully solve algorithmic bias yeah at least in the next 5 to 10 years and by the time we've solved it we've probably unlocked a level of of AI that is going to change society in ways that we can't even imagine anyways um and so I think it's it's it's less about how do we fix that problem more about how do we build the competencies and knowledge to use the tools with the understanding that you're always going to have to be cognizant of you know where might that bias
044play and what are sort of the mitigations or in some cases the considerations about maybe we shouldn't be using AI tools for certain things like for example you shouldn't automate all of your grading at least today uh using chat GPT because companies and the thing is you know and um and I'm sorry I'm going to put Google on the spot but this is even in the news um uh the the Fiasco around Gemini um first of all that's not unique to Google every language model out there has versions of this weirdness that comes about depending on how you prompt the question um you can bet that open Ai and Google are working extremely hard to try to figure this stuff out and the fact that they haven't yet I think is a demonstration of the
045fact that we're probably not going to get there soon so what is the solution you just have to figure out okay well what are the applications that make sense and how do you build sort of those um that awareness that we're going to have to have as teachers in the same way that we have conversations about um you know bias in equity in other context let me add a layer to to Alex's um answer and and I completely agree um one of the things that the team uh Digital P spous in a push all of the time you may have seen it the guidance coming out of us doe around putting the human in the center um so machines making decisions making sure that human beings understand what is being made when AI is being
046used and they use their judgment understanding especially around this kind of these kinds of issues to help to make the decision right if you live it to the machine to make a decision then yes it is baked in you're not going to remove it let me give you a concrete example as to when we did not do that with with tragic consequences more machine learning than AI but when you think about the 737 Max 8 so I'm I'm a pilot so I talk a lot about Aviation so forgive me um if you see what happened with with the max 8 there were decision being made by the by the machine would that the pilot being in the middle they had no idea what the hell was going on and by the time they try to
047figure out crash that has been solved of course right you cannot remove the person the human being in their judgment in what is being made or things being made by machines that's one of the ways of mitigating some of this stuff right if you yourself as a as a teacher or as a education leader understand the potential biases or baked into these products then you can say doesn't make any sense to me I'm going to come back and do it differently uh the second thing I I I'll say is that and I've been pushing this a lot in the last number of weeks AI is an edtech conversation in education you're not not going to be buying AI you're buying attech products that have ai inside of it uh or will have ai inside of
048it the question for you as leaders in education is um do you have an N Tech strategy for your District by the way most districts don't uh the CTO the chief technology officer and the chief academic officer don't talk to each other uh we're watching there products being purchased by the CTO that is not part of the instructional program or technology being introduced into your schools by students by teachers without you even knowing what what's coming into your schools right so having that kind of a tech strategy to understand by we're spending billions in at Tech in this country and if you talk to anyone of VCS I'll Ventures or anyone else they'll tell you AI will be in every product ech product and by the way most of us don't have an ftech strategy
049that is baked into our instructional strategy in schools that is the way to begin to really manage this kind of discussion think in our school systems okay um I'm trying to think about the order in which I want to answer this I'm going to give you a small anecdote and then I'm going to directly respond to what Alex said A friend of mine was a teacher in New York Public School System actually and he taught in a school that had a lot of West African students um there was an edtech tool that he loved using I won't name it here many of you are probably familiar with it but it's not really the point of the story the point of the story is that in order to participate in the activity on the tool students
050had to input their names and when his group of students input their names the tool recognized their names as slurs or inappropriate language and he sent a note to the creators of the tool and said hey what's going on here and what he realized was the tool was created in northern Europe by a company that was largely made up of white male engineers and I think the example of that that really embodies is that when like you said algorithmic bias is never going to go away because as humans creating the tools we are inherently biased that's just the human experience but by giving H the company that feedback they were then able to make those edits right and so in the case of Gemini and some of the work that's or some of the issues
051that have come up more recently that's exactly what we need to do and I think teachers need to work with students to get them comfortable to give that feedback and become a part of the creation process honestly um the other thing that I would say and this is very near and dear to my heart because of the work that I do with code NEX the program that I run at Google um if you have a group of I'll just say myself girls who grew up in the San Fernando Valley uh who are big fans of Ryan Gosling and Chad Wick Boseman RP creating tools it's going to be a very different type of tool from other demographic groups right and so when we think of who is creating these tools I think it's our responsibility
052as Educators to also provide as many opportunities for students to develop the skill as they need if they want to then be the people that are creating and designing those algorithms um yeah feel free to clap with that go for it sure yes I mean honestly um I think that there's a lot of missed opportunity right now for honestly us as a state to bring more Computer Science Education into the classroom Ai and computer science are concentric circles they're not one and the same but they're connected but I do think that in my opinion it would be if if we could reach a place similar to what Chicago public schools has reached where every high school graduate has to have at least some computer science requirement in order to graduate from the public school system
053that would be amazing now my colleagues will usually remind me like listen it's and it is hard it's because it takes resources and it takes um professional development a lot of the things you were talking about funding um but to me that is a a big step that we still just really haven't been able to figure out and that is something I'd like us to be able to do and don't get me wrong Google is just as responsible for that as y'all we are in this together um so let's make it happen if we can can I make one modification to the suggestion computer science is is something we push quite quite hard on and Google is has been helping us with this as well on computational thinking so think about that structure versus computer
054science right so competitional thinking involves skills like debugging algorithmic thinking pattern recognition and my favorite district and there's a couple but my favorite District that I was uh visiting last year with a whole bunch of folks is in Alabama Talladega County Alabama they' have now taken computational thinking and integrated across the entire District in every core so picture this kindergarten class building bird houses talking about computational thinking Crown High School honors English class doing Shakespeare talking about computational thinking those skills those competencies are integrated the entire core content and every child's experiences that so they learn how to manage machines versus the other way around so that for me is a solution because computer science course is are great but too often only selected kids get it uh whereas CT Pathways every student in every
055class from pre to 12th grade uh really part of the conversation that's great what's the name of that district tala county and you guys were there after we visited uh Jenny was telling me that they got there for two days a week you stayed in Talla County the other one is fet um I think in um uh Pennsylvania I think is the state great um well and so biased algorithms are just one of many things that um Educators need to think about when they start bringing this Tech technology into classrooms um we're still in a very experimental phase I think that's why a lot of you guys are here trying to figure out how to navigate this um there's a lot of uh companies pouring a lot of money into AI making a lot of
056really lofty promises um about solving long-standing Equity issues in education so um Educators have a lot on their plate post pandemic and so I'm wondering what advice you have to Educators trying to navigate this uh slightly chaotic landscape I would say okay uh first of all um I think there's a moment of recognition which is there's still a lot of fear around AI but if you are a living breathing human with a smartphone you are already using AI every day raise your hand if you used Google search within the last 48 hours congratulations you are an AI user nice work I think that there's that kind of sometimes we forget that AI is actually integrated into a lot of the technologies that we're already using so when you get past that then I really like
057to tell Educators you don't don't necessarily focus on using AI in the classroom quite yet take it into a low stakes environment like your life outside of the classroom to get comfortable with it um one thing that I love telling people is if you're not a huge fan of cooking like I am but you need recipes I love going into Gemini and saying I have these things in my refrigerator give me a couple of options for recipes I can make super easy and it gets you kind of into the vein of thinking about it is just a a tool that you use not necessarily to do the whole thing for you but to replace a task or to help you think about new ideas so that's my recommendation is really to start um integrating it
058into lower Stakes environments before you really kind of Go full throttle with it in the classroom I also highly recommend Google has a ton of trainings on this got a shout out to Google for Education team team um we also uh applied digital skills has a couple of you know very straightforward and easy to follow lessons as well again take it out of the classroom first so you get comfortable with it and then bring it back in yeah I think we're preaching to the converted you guys are here I mean the fact is that you are here because you want to be part of the conversation so that's my first advice be crew not passengers uh in this effort don't sit back and wait for things to happen to you lead and push the conversation
059second I would say is play play with the stuff as much as you can um I met the teacher of the year from Kentucky a few weeks ago and he talking about how he was using one his stuff in his classrooms he was having a blast uh not necessarily being supported by the district but he was doing this kind of stuff um give you an example of what one of our colleagues uh one of our convenings talked about in using CH GPT for example because you can ask the LM to have kids write a five paragraph essay and the kids go put it on Char GPT and they get the essay and they achieve it right or you can have a child for example have char GPT write write an essay taking a position on
060a particular topic ask the machine to take a account the position on the same topic you're teaching pro engineering right then ask the child to work with a partner and develop a a a presentation ju position the two the two opinions from the now you're leveraging the technology and what you do in your classroom um so think about fly ways of really moving your pedagogy where you assessing kids where the machines can help and the last thing I'll say is again this stuff is going to show up in your in your Tech products I was in a call this morning uh with the CEO of brain pop and that they moving earnestly and thinking about how AI is going to be showing up and what they actually do how it's going to show up in
061cni that's the way in which it's going to show up in your classrooms right um so pay a lot of attention to your a tech product integration I keep pushing this this conversation especially for the system leaders in this room because too often I'm saying again we don't have an N Tech integration strategy this is how AI is going to show up so watch what is happening if you are an educate a teacher in this room push it to the school leader the principal hey I'm seeing this can we use this we test this idea but right now frankly it's a play it's a play it's a play it's a Sandbox of play and be careful how you play of course because the data you're putting in becomes public yeah it's important to note that
062like you know large language models are not they're they're not an invention per se it's more of a discovery um and you know The Cutting Edge of large language model research is in many cases people just goofing around with the models and trying to figure out what happens when they put this prompt in versus this prompt and so um the the key to to using llms is uh is domain expertise plus experimentation and like that's it right so domain expertise plus experimentation there's no book of prompts that you need to memorize um the only thing you actually should remember is ask the llm Gemini or Chad GPT whatever your request is uh ask it to think step by step so that actually does um research has shown that actually does increase the quality of the
063outputs it also helps to be polite oddly uh to be polite to the model I'm serious um but some other quick advice for teachers take-home essays are done we need to get over it like if you are assigning take-home essays like you should just expect that your kids are cheating and and frankly I think it's on youti dissertation I use Gemini um it's on you if your kids are using it I would say like I wouldn't blame the kids for that I think the teachers need to um you know I like debates because if you think about putting student pitting students against you know uh one another with different sides now they're both using let's say chat GPT uh now it's not a matter of whether they're using it but rather how are they using
064it to enhance their position right so there's like I think tweaks like that and if you don't know where to start you can just literally ask you can say hey I'm trying to write a lesson plan I'm not really sure how I'm supposed to use Gemini like can you give me some ideas about how you can help me write this lesson plan and it will actually give you like three to five great ideas and so that's a good place to start yeah there's a question coming up I believe where we talk about how we think that teachers can I think save themselves time and oh I cannot wait for that question okay well let's just jump right toight just quickly before we go to that to that question just going back this idea of having
065lesson PL being being built I saw a tool a few months ago uh and we asked it to create a lesson for that was Project based and for dyslexic kids the Project based structure was actually quite ingenious the dislexia and the leaning on learning science was pretty awful and unless you have some understanding that what is being spad out is is language crap um you're going to use it uh but again that human in the center understanding anybody's coming back to you and using your judgment what you know about your class and what you teach is Paramount because again machine is learning uh it may not be pulling from a strong database there are folks working hard to change that including Google um but just understand that sometimes what you're getting may not be you
066know quality stuff okay um well I am excited to jump um on to this uh this question about how this is going to lighten the load and make your lives easier and I just want to add my my mom a retired District administrator and so she's at home she has a lot of time to experiment with whatever um she loves using um generative AI to like write thank you notes do all this stuff and so she's in touch with her principles and she's like she was a former principal she said you guys need to get on this like this is going to make your life so easy think about you don't have to like sit there pour over an email or you know because that's a lot of what you know principles do so um
067she's like this is just going to like you know it's like an assistant for you so I mean that's just a personal anecdote but um yeah so you know we've been talking about the student learning experience I'd like to hear how you think that this is going to help teachers who need you know and Educators um yeah all I can say is that when I was teaching um on Sundays I would go to Corner Bakery at 9:00 a.m. and sit there until 5 p.m. creating my lessons every every single Sunday for the entire week because I also worked at a kip school and Kip back in those days was a 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. schedule and we had Saturday school from I I know from 10 to 2 um and so if I had
068had generative AI tools back then I would have used them to reduce the amount of time it took me to create slides and curriculum more recently uh I've been using them for tasks that are somewhat repetitive in nature namely writing letters of recommendation for my Cod next seniors when they're applying to to college um but I do think that curriculum development is a huge one and then grading thank you for that comment about take-home essays by the way um the Google for Education team there's a something that we now provide called practice sets which are basically AI laced grading tools and Grading is something that I also used to spend hours and hours and hours on and having the tools that exist today would have just saved me a lot of time so I would
069say grading curriculum development and um letters of recommendation can I just say that the teaching profession if you're a school leader the job is unsustainable uh if you think about my old days as a teacher in New York City five classrooms 34 kids a class uh and doing especially with your seniors and they come to you for recommendations uh I mean it's impossible so there's a quite three or four groups right now in the US rethinking the mental model for teaching uh the the idea that even if you have one class that you can solve the needs the jagged learner profile of every kid in 150 kids in your case load is impossible so all that beyond the fact think about for example a bunch of things uh teams of Educators including parents supporting the
070needs of children right and how that kind of structure in a School leveraging Technology as as an enabler as well can become even parents being being part of that team is the way in which some of us begin to rethink the way teaching ought to be done again teachers in the center uh the idea is that AI can replace teachers is absolute nonsense right uh there are folks again who are thinking about that too um hopefully they'll never succeed but you think about this idea of really rethinking the mental model yes from pedagogy to assessment to curriculum to paperwork um all that can be can be can be can be changed I know a team in Melbourne working on reducing a teacher's administrative case load or burden by 25% using AI so the folks who
071are actively working on tools and solutions to make the job more more sustainable and doable and we all know here that we are losing and not gaining teachers at all we have a crisis um not just in the US frankly right um that the job has to be made much more sustainable so lots of opportunities here uh to make it happen one last thing very quickly when I was teaching physics BL AI more technology um I shifted my my laboratory if you remember your high school Labs your science labs The cookbook lab right you follow procedures at the end of the then you have no idea what the hell you did right uh that was science the way science has taught many many places leveraging technology we made the experimentation to be about one to
072two minutes the discussion the analysis was 45 minutes think about that kind of of shift in in in in in Paradigm this is the potential for technology and Ai and really making this much more about case conferencing discussions and less about the the procedural stuff that we need to do in our classrooms yeah and it's it's it's less about sort of it's less of this like plug-and play uh productivity hack that like you know if you think of like the the full workflow over the course of a day of an educator you're not looking for like this huge chunk of time you're actually looking for these sort of like slivers of work and so part of this experimentation is um it is the correct realization if you're like ah this is actually not that great
073I could have done a better job with this like often times when people start start using Gemini they'll they'll kind of had that reaction where it's like it's actually not that great and that's that's correct it's it's but I'm I'm going to use uh so so Ray an educator at anham Union I was talking to him last night and he was telling me about one of the ways that he has been using um chat gbt and it was for grading but this was like a really good application of use of llms for grading and it was it was not to actually provide students with a grade but rather to provide the initial feedback that he would have otherwise had to to write down and read every uh every essay or every assignment um so what
074he does now with the time that he used to use sitting down and writing that feedback he gets the chat gets chat to provide the feedback he gives it to the students and he says it's it might be it might be wrong this might be trash I don't know but I'm at least I I want it to be a starting point for a conversation and then he uses the time that he would have spent uh providing the written feedback to actually meet with students one-on-one and like that is the magic of how this can really augment and Empower teachers is it's not about creating a huge amount of like body of work but rather unlocking time that can now be more interactive and personalized and you know I don't think that that model can necessarily
075be copied and pasted into every single class but um you know if you spend if you invest you know a reasonable amount of time over the next couple months you will find those the versions of that for yourself and your kids are really going to feel it and see it um I would like to turn to um talking about uh guidance from the government so we've seen some guidance um the B admin released the blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights um handful of States including California have have released some guidance as well but um I'm curious what you would like to see um from the government what kind of role it should play and also you know what kind of role are we should demand that it plays um you know what and what
076would be the you know what kind of guidance what kind of Regulation funding and what's the risk of weak regulation too I kind of want to understand the stakes here I have you to jump on this one quickly um and I'm going to call out a few of my folks who are in the audience I think the US government is doing quite a bit um to be frank and uh PTI Jeremy and Judy are here I've been working with the US doe office of at Tech and producing a lot of guidance for the field Ani and education so these documents are available on their website or our website uh please feel free if you're a system leader here I'm going to push please lead um there's a document Jeremy just produced um because one of
077my biggest uh pain points and heartache was that states in the US were not leading districts were thinking about this teachers are thinking about this School principles the feds but not the states uh jimy just produced a document that looks at Six States who actually are providing guidance and beginning to talk quite a bit about this the document is available on our website it's dig pr.org States aai um so it's starting to happen here I know Ministries around the world wholy are taking about this as well um but no one's arrived no one knows the answer but the doe um in the US has been doing quite a bit in producing uh Guidance the states need to step up a bit more yeah I mean funding I mean a lot of times we we've looked
078at you know the ethical principles that either school districts or organizations have published um and they almost you know invariably they include accessibility and equity and you know I think what's missed in that discussion is you know if your principle for implementing AI is equity and accessibility what you are also saying in the same breath is we are going to pay millions tens of millions hundreds of millions of dollars a year to cover the token costs of these llms that price might come down at some point um but if we really care about this being something that every student has access to um we can't just expect schools to come up with those line items out of thin air it's going to require serious dollars and I can't imagine where that how that's going to
079happen without you know a very concerted effort from the federal government and state governments to ensure that districts have that um that bandwidth to to do it yep yeah um in the same vein of making it rain uh I would say it there's a real opportunity for the government to invest in research and um funding for research in fact I brought with me this was a um a piece of research that six of Google's top VP senior vice presidents put out um about a month ago it's called Ai and the opportunity for shared Prosperity lessons from the history of technology and the economy um and it includes the perspectives of our chief legal officer Chief finance officer Chief research officer and one thing I found really interesting in this is there's a section where they
080talk about pieces of technology that probably we don't really know about because they sort of fell to the Wayside because they didn't get enough research and development to really see them through um as an example if I say Concord other than the bird does anybody know what the Concord is a couple okay so the Concord was a supersonic plane that was originally intended to change uh air travel as we know it due to really largely from the government um their it is um it can be applicable to so many different Industries not just at medicine um soci to see the funding that was being taken away from NASA um to go towards space travel and I'm I'm actually going to we're starting to we I could I could listen to you guys for another hour
081we need to wrap up but so I you know I just want to go ahead and thank you guys for um all your insights um Round of Applause for this panel they did really great okay okay and now I'm gonna pass it back to our announcer Brian bski so much well thank you Emma in just 3 minutes I will introduce our first Spark talk but before we do that I'd like to ask each of you to turn to an elbow partner and share one or two Reflections from this morning's fireside chat with each other our next speaker is coming up in just one minute ask everybody to please take your seats this at this time we ask that you direct your attention back to the stage and if you have moved around we ask that
082you return to your seat [Music] d okay thank you very much our first Spark Talk of the morning is from Keith strier vice president of worldwide AI initiatives at Nvidia with his primary responsibility for Global public sector and AI Nations part Partnerships clap once if you can hear me clap twice if you can hear me thank you very much our first Spark talk this morning is from Keith strier the vice president of worldwide AI initiatives at Nvidia with primary responsibility for Global public sector and AI Nations Partnerships Keith is the the leading Authority on National AI infrastructure and was appointed in 2021 by the oecd Secretariat as the founding chair AI compute and climate task force to guide member nations on large scale Computing Investments Keith was recently appointed by the US Secretary of Commerce
083to the first national AI advisory committee to advise the president and the national AI initiative office on how to ensure continued us leadership in the development of trustworthy AI Keith also served as a guest lecturer and facilitator for Harvard Medical Schools Center for biomed informatics for 10 years he has a Bachelor of Science with honors from Cornell University and a law degree from NYU School of School of Law Without further Ado here is Keith strier all right good morning it's great great panel this morning thank you for all the panelists thank you Mike thank you everyone what a great session this is the first time I've had the chance in all my years of speaking on this topic to address Educators and students at the same time I'm very excited for those that are listening
084in or or will be watching this later uh as well as all of you here in the room now I've been asked to spark your imagination in 12 minutes on an incredibly complex topic I probably need 12 minutes for each one of the slides that I have in my presentation but I have like 40 seconds so I'm going to do my best to both speak slowly and clearly but race through it at the same time that shouldn't be too hard um so let me uh see if this clicker works great so I do have four learning objectives uh and they're not discreet they sort of roll up together right so once I want to hope you slightly better understand AI just a little bit it's a little more AI 101 um I also want to
085both widen your perspective but also sharpen it because there's a lot of noise with AI and I want to try to help you focus on what I think is important I also want to emphasize this theme of personal accountability it was touched on a bit on the panel this morning you know everyone not just big Tech firms but everyone School administrators teachers students need to understand the implications of these Technologies and The Cone consquences of using them irresponsibly and then finally I think our future is a shared one right no man is an island is that ring a bell right whether AI becomes a positive or A negative for you individually for your school for your community for our nation is really a up to a collective action right individual choices that we're going to
086make so we're going to come back to that okay so let's get to it you know what what is AI and again we need an hour and a half on this and we've got seconds but let's just get I'm going to try to hit some big points and then if you want to talk to me after we could do that right well I think it's safe to say that AI is really one of the most compelling one of the most transformational Technologies of our time uh earlier Mike and and and and uh that amazing Dance Crew kind of emphasized how it's like fire it's like discovering fire and that's and there's some real truth to that uh the Google CEO and some other CEOs have also referred to it as the new electricity uh now
087there's a little bit bit of hype in there there's nothing wrong with little marketing marketing is good but but there's also truth because general purpose Technologies like AI don't come along that often and when they do they change every facet of society in fact I think since the dawn of civilization since we domesticated plants there have only been 25 or 26 general purpose Technologies AI is the latest so it's a big deal it's hard to find a corner of the globe or a segment of the economy or a a field of academic study that will be unaffected by the rise of machines that can learn and simulate human cognition now as a starting point I do want to address sort of a myth which is that everyone thinks that AI is a robot now there's
088a little you know there's there's there's a visual element to this right every Hollywood movie to date you know when they talk about AI it's always typically except maybe now I think about it war games with Matthew brri no robot right that was just a really big computer called Whopper which was actually kind of cool but but every other movie I think pretty much portrays AI as a robot and and I get it robots or families of robots having dinner it's kind of interesting it's visual you know it's fun to look at but uh and the truth is robots have been around for a while but almost all the robots that ever existed since the beginning of time up until recently were all pretty DB it's true so yeah you some robots that can navigate
089your house and vacu and and there are some very sophisticated industrial robots that are working on assembly lines that can build things but for the most part they actually had very little to know AI right they were executing against rules and tasks interestingly the irony of this slide is we're actually on the very cusp of a gener of a wave of humanoid robots hitting the world you're going to start to see headlines all the time right now over the next year or two on this it's just coming now sort of the integration of these brilliantly engineered mechanized structures with artificial intelligence this new generation of AI allowing them to to not just navigate but to sense understand and interact with the real world and really meaningful ways we're still probably three or five years away
090from from C3PO maybe longer than that but but it but it's coming it's it's actually coming but unlike Terminator these machines are purpose built to make the world better so you'll see these robots more engaging in a caregiving facility say helping with the elderly or in an industrial setting taking a allowing humans to not have to do really dangerous jobs like cleaning the inside of a nuclear reactor and that kind of thing so I think they'll be good but just buckle up because these things are coming okay so there's this famous quote right 1962 by the science fiction writer Arthur C Clark that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Magic the thing is AI is not magic maybe a dynamic Brew of some kind but definitely not magic the better way to think about
091about it is that AI is software but it's a very specialized kind of software it's software that writes itself and this has far-reaching implications right so this takes a little explaining machine learning is a process uh it's through which mathematical models acquire knowledge through experience not unlike humans right all experiences is all everything we experience is a form of data right just right now the images the sound the the the all the all of your sensory experi is streaming into your brain is just data right and that data is wiring your brain and triggering neurons and so forth an AI model is no different it's called an artificial neural network for a reason and as it's fed data you know as the data goes in its Network forms get assigned weights and intelligence comes out
092on the other side now a human must design the model and humans must feed the model but after that what we've actually learned is the most powerful AI models literally train themselves they actually call it unsupervised learning and this is very powerful but of course as as another colleague on the panel said earlier keeping humans in the loop is also very important but in the future as AI expands its role in our world traditional software written by people will be less and less part of the it landscape and AI models will write their own code this is why my CEO Jensen W recently said in an interview that learning to code or learning to program may not be as useful in the future for the broader population we're always going to someone's always going to
093have to Cod but maybe not everybody so another way to think about this mindbending concept is that AI is not one thing it's not a single technology it's a constellation right it's a constellation of Technologies and knowledge domains and tools and techniques and platforms and so it's a little bit confusing when people talk about AI like it's this monolithic discret thing because it's really not right and so it's also not just a career for math Wizards although AI is math but it's a much because it's a constellation right people with those natural skills I'm not one of them by the way people with those natural skills they should pursue that we love them we want them go build AI for us that's fantastic but there are many non-technical professions there are many non-technical careers and
094there's and the vast majority of us need to appreciate that we need those skills right so we'll need lots of experts in the world related to AI who don't have a PhD in AI you'll need experts who can design the regulations and the policies and the rules to govern AI you'll need uh experts that can manage AI projects or design AI interfaces or manage or mitigate AI risks you'll need vendors that can sell AI or support AI adoption there's just going there's just an incredibly long list of AI related jobs and skills that don't require you to be a math Wizard and none of those jobs existed a few years ago in fact AI is going to affect every single profession now it wouldn't surprise you to know that it it it's it affects gaming
095right and actually you know there's a really interesting history about the connection between gaming and AI because a lot of the early AI actually the the the sort of sandbox for AI if you will kind of came up through the gaming industry but the the uh now ai is really transforming gaming in in a really lot of cool ways if you're a game designer you're using AI to build Virtual Worlds you're using AI to improve or customize the gamer experience you're using AI to take those non-player characters and make them really rich and interesting but what about what about doctors and nurses and other Care Professionals right AI is revolutionizing that field as well it's enabling you to pick better therapies for your patients to improve the accuracy of Diagnostics to you know to to
096help identify new molecules for Discovery and then to streamline that process of turning that molecule into a product so every single field and in transportation which is a multi-trillion dollar part of our Lives not just cars but any anything that moves right if you're if you're in that industry whether you're a designer or an engineer or maybe you're working a dealership it doesn't matter you'll be using AI to eliminate accidents and make cars safer in fact I'm pretty sure years before we have a self-driving car that is fully self-driving and safe on the road you will see traffic accidents go like that because AI will make it difficult to die in a car because it'll create a shield around that car and it'll bring so much intelligence so much sense making to that car it'll
097be very hard to have an accident in that car even if you fall asleep even if you're inebriated even if you don't know what you're doing even if someone's trying to hit you that car will steer out of the way so that that the technolog is going to make the world better even on its journey to making it autonomous right but you're going to improve the efficiency of those cars you're going to reduce traffic which is also have uh benefits for the climate climate change and that kind of thing so lots of lots going on the the no matter your career understanding the best ways to lever AI will be very very important now the reason we're talking about AI at all and it was discussed this morning is because of this incredible thing called
098generative AI made famous by chat GPT which only blasted into our world in November 2022 it wasn't very long ago right I mean what is it 15 months ago 16 months ago nothing has been the same since we inside my company we talk about it sort of as sort of pre-chat PT and post chat GT I mean you know the world really did change very very quickly now we don't have enough time to unlock this Branch this is one of these two hour slides but I do want to make just a couple of points so you have you have this first generative AI is not just about text it's not just about a conversation of course that's where it started but you know you already see how it's evolving to other forms of content right
099you now have the ability to generate music and videos and voices and other kinds of things in that way but it doesn't stop there because language isn't just about that many things are forms of structured language probably one of the most exciting and sort of lifechanging applications of Jer AI is that we're now training it on the language of biology and the language of chemistry right actg that's a language too right and so now generative a mods are able to generate new kinds of proteins new kinds of materials new kinds of chemical structures you're going to see generative AI being used to dramatically transform science things that would take 10 years can be done in 10 minutes things that couldn't be done in a lifetime or 10 lifetimes will be done in a summer and
100so there's going to be these huge leaps in science as a result of gener AI and I think that's that chapter is just starting to play out now one of the real miracles of of AI generative AI is that it speaks your language it the language of AI is human language right you can engage with it talk to it direct it correct it it's accessible to everybody it has democratized itself you don't need to code you don't need to know python to use AI That's what's so powerful that's the reason Chacha BT became the fastest adopted technology in the history of mankind right 100 million users in 60 days it's never happened before right and it's no longer just a tool for scientists it's a tool for everybody right and that's comes back to talk
101a little bit earlier about accessibility right and it's true if you don't have access to the technology there's far reaching implications not just at the individual level at the classroom level the school level it's true at the national level and this is playing out across 193 Nations across the world there are only 32 countries in the world with a supercomputer the other 160 countries don't have that ability they can't participate in the same way so this is a very complex conversation that starts at that level and goes all the way down to individual students in your classes now the rise of AI has prompted concerns about work and I get that but what happens when you graduate that matter that the the the output of your of of your graduation your ability to be successful
102participant in this new economy depends on the teachers in this room and the Educators in this room and and and all the the Educators across the country right the most powerful use cases for AI is not to replace people but it's to augment them it's to make them more effective to make them more productive in fact every 30 days roughly 1% of all jobs disappear through Innovation that's a very common normal course of work and yet despite this the number of job job openings exceeds the number of people looking for work today that nothing has really changed in that regard work is transitioning and it takes time for people to get new skills to get up to get retrained so that is disruptive but this is not a new this is not the first time
103nor is it the last time that this will happen in fact 30% of all the jobs that exist today did not exist 25 years ago so this is a pretty normal cycle I'd say it's more accurate to think about it that AI is reallocating work not destroying it now there are big implications for education of course as well right work will evolve and schools must evolve too right education must evolve to how we teach now how we learn how we measure academic success how how students the tools that they have at their fingertips and I think that that actually any concerns that AI will make teachers less valuable is crazy teachers have never been more valuable schools have never been more important you have to empower these students to understand and apply these Technologies to
104prepare for new fields of study new ways to thrive in a world in which machines can be smart but will coexist with us you cannot deny that so the way I think about it and I I hope I can convey this sort of optimistic perception is that AI is like a superpower right it's like having a billion brains in your back pocket I think it will unlock human potential it will accelerate scientific discovery there's no question about that it will improve the health of entire nations and it will generate new artistic formats we're just starting to see that too of course you know how the saying goes with great respons with great power comes great responsibility right the cape isn't free AI for good is a choice the same tool that can upgrade diagnostic imagery
105and help save lives by detecting cancer earlier that same tool can also be used to create fake videos that embarrass and bully people the same tool that can Empower someone born without sight to see the world and to live in it more independently that same tool can be used to invade someone's privacy the same tool that can help students organize their their work expand their mind that same tool can be used to cheat on assignments and to avoid the hard work necessary to be successful in lives so most of us will not be Engineers we will not design these systems but we will have to choose how to apply them right we will have to know how to apply them when to apply them them where to apply them and starting as early as possible
106we have a shared responsibility as Citizens as parents as Educators to embrace them and become literate in them and to help students through the example of our own behavior how to use them in the most responsible trustworthy and socially positive way now one final Point AI does not rain down from clouds now I did say in the beginning that you shouldn't think about robots at AI I just could not up with a better image and I was you know on the little generator trying to create these cool images I was using open ai's Dolly platform and this was just the coolest one I could find so I apologize for using robots as a metaphor AI but it just worked so but AI does not rain down from clouds this is very important there a really
107tactical point but you need to have this in your mind where does it come from it doesn't come from a stor doesn't come from clouds AI is manufactured AI is made on supercomputers these are the new engines of economic growth the new factories of our world AI factories quite literally they're popping up across the world these are large these are very specialized machines software and Hardware that work together and and they they you know they are the future they are they are the backbone of this economy and so these specialized machines there's also careers around them and I know a think or two about this because I work for this company you may have heard of it called Nvidia and and and you know we we make these machines actually so so supercomputers are really
108what's EMP powering AI today and the technology inside them is really where the magic happens so at that I think I've exceeded my time by a few minutes I apologize for that I want to say thank you good luck and may your future be brighter with an AI co-pilot by your [Applause] side but another big round of applause for Keith strier from Nvidia thank you Keith for helping us kick off with an inspirational spark talk let's take two minutes again to share with an elbow partner at your table a couple of Reflections about Keith's talk okay will be back in just about 1 minute one minute hey we ask everybody to wrap up your conversations at your tables and direct your attention back toward the stage again clap once if you can hear me clap
109twice if you can hear me thank you very much it's a big room thanks for indulging me this morning leader June an education where he directs the design and partnership lab or the DAP lab and is the founding director of the Orange County Educational advancement Network or ocean Dr an bines expertise in participatory design methods for education and conducts research on what is possible with New Media and learning Technologies in Ocean he has created a schoolwide initiative that matches UCI faculty and doctoral students with Community Partners to create research that directly aligns with Community needs his past and current projects range from designing social media tools for children's science learning alternate reality games for stem learning with NASA the Smithsonian institution and Computer History Museum data visualization platforms that Foster pedagogical change with mathematics teachers
110stem learning installations that are designed into City spaces that Foster Family interaction and AI tools that help with College and Career mentorship introducing Dr June an all right can everybody hear me okay in the back yeah great so uh when I was asked to give this spark talk uh to provoke some thoughts organize us together uh as a summit I of course started out with the big theme so AI being the big theme Here of our Summit and also the letter e for Education our educational Endeavor that we're all trying to promote here but I'm going to do a little Switcheroo in my talk what I really want to talk about is how we're amplifying our intentions for education and how we might start to think about equity in more nuanced ways and the reason
111I want to talk about that is because I want to directly address a common theme that has been coming up in our morning conversation here which is every time a new educational technology arises we're always faced with this dilemma in the history of edtech research we always see that the technology opens our imaginations up to what is possible our aspirations for doing things differently uh but we also always see that implementation in the classroom looks very different it's very complicated classrooms are complex organizations school districts are complex organizations and we often don't see the promise of the technology that is coming about so how do we deal with this dissonance um I one way that I am thinking about this dissonance from a personal example so on the left hand side is the head shot
112that I use for all of my uh websites and uh University uh social media accounts and things of that nature uh this is from like 12 years ago so even this head shot's pretty outdated um so I decided to create a new head shot for this event I used a generative AI tool gave it some of my images and gave it some prompts um I think this is a really good indic uh kind of analogy for me on the dissonance between reality and uh our aspirations um so I think it's pretty good I think it's about 70% there which kind of is like how large language models are working out for me right now it's about 70% there um and the things that it does well I think it captures my Essence a little bit
113um but uh the funny part of this is uh I like the right the right hand image in that head shot because it feels like it's a good head shot for starring in my own Korean drama on Netflix right so I that might be a good aspiration I kind of like this but there there's a distance with that reality in seriousness what I really want to talk to you about is how we make sense of the Gap so I'm talking to my educator friends out here and as a former uh Middle School and High School educator and school administrator that we will see the real consequences of AI right uh but we also in this Summit and in all the meetings that you're going to be in you're going to see the potential for good
114that we could also do right how do we make sense of this Gap I want to give you a couple of provocations and a couple of heuristics to think about as uh we go through this Summit together so three frames that I'd like to introduce in my 10 9 10 minutes that I have left with you so first is this idea of a theory of amplification really drives my own research so Dr canaro Toyama at the University of Michigan has written a book about this and promotes this idea but really it's that technology actually doesn't cause anything so technology doesn't cause learning it doesn't cause us to reduce inequality right these are the these are the problems that we are are concerned with as Educators technology actually amplifies our underlying human factors that are already
115there so what that really means in you know this is another 2hour slide but in 30 seconds what I would love and challenge us to do in this Summit is uh to think about the statements we're making so if our aspiration is for technology to reduce inequality that's probably an inaccurate statement right uh what we should really be looking at is what are our organizations doing to reduce inequality what how are our societies structured to reduce inequality and how do we want to then design AI tools to accelerate that right so the AI tool is not going to be the the tool that saves us right it's the tool that actually accelerates our intentions so that's leads to my second Point what that means for me as an educator and as an education researcher is
116for us to think about uh what our intentions are for Education when we're sharing our best practices when we're sharing new ideas for how to use Ai and I want to give you a couple of examples from my own work uh particularly with ahsd but here's a kind of a thought experiment that I would love for everyone to engage in whether or not we want to explicitly admit this or not we have structured our education systems to serve one function which is to grade and sort students right we do lots of things but that is also one of the functions of our education system right and if we're honest about that there's a logical kind of corollary to the AI tools we could build which is to accelerate the grading and sorting of students right
117and that acceleration is probably going to be the unintended consequences that you tend you'll start to notice right um another example of this is uh we often think about our K12 education system as really needing to provide those foundational basic skills for every student right that's a valid goal um but this amplification idea and Our intention idea naturally lets us understand that if we create AI tools just to teach basic skills we may be improving on that uh but we'll run up against a conundrum which is we're also creating AI tools that will replace those basic skills right and we're increasingly realizing that it's the human factor the Ingenuity the collaboration the adaptability the flexibility like those are the skills that actually are going to uh accelerate young people right um so just thought experiments
118there because I'm going to use that kind of structure the last thought the third thought I'd like to uh leave you with is uh to be very explicit as we talk with each other and learn with each other in the next two days about what our definitions of equity are so what I mean by that is I will guarantee you that a lot of our conversations of equity will be around access very good goal Big Goal and it'll probably be things around uh skills and student achievement and narrowing the gaps right that's often how we talk about Equity here but I want to give you a couple of alternative ways to open up our imagination for how to think about Equity because it matters for how we build tools so I'll give you a couple
119of humble sacrificial offerings of a work that I'm doing in my research lab so we are the design partnership lab the DAP lab uh feel free to DAP me up if you see me throughout the conference um and I offer these just as kind of thought experiments for you about how we try to think about uh these ideas differently so the first project that we're working on is uh focused on fostering occupational identity for young people this is funded by The Gates Foundation and just to give you that kind of uh thought process we went through so imagine if we're working from a framework that education is a grading and sorting mechanism right a very logical tool and I say this with no value judgment a very logical tool would be to create ways to
120tell students what they're suited for in their careers um and I and uh it's also a very valid way to think about the idea uh it also reminds me of like dystopian science fiction like we we could go down that route very CLE uh easily right um the way that uh the DAP lab and how we're thinking about this was to actually uh study the research about how young people develop deep identities towards career Pathways and if you actually uh think about uh highly resourced and privileged communities those families are not thinking about uh telling my kid what they should be when they grow up those communities are uh focused on thinking of the Hidden curriculum of developing a career let's think about how we all got to where we are right that hidden curriculum
121involves knowing who to connect with what questions to ask people what experiences to get myself into right um these are what we call the hidden curriculum so we asked ourselves as a as a lab how could we then use AI to amplify the learning of that hidden curriculum right so this is what we're trying to do right now it's a very simple tool that we prototyped where uh young people actually just share aspects of their anxieties their imaginations their plans for the future and we actually engineered uh AI helper that synthesizes their Reflections and gives them kind of like what we call a career gram it's like a report that says hey this is what we hear you thinking about and you know it actually might be useful for you to go talk to a
122mentor about X Y and Z right it's a very simple idea and we're starting to do research on this and what we're learning um particularly with uh undergraduate college students is that uh when I send my career gram to a mentor before I go to their office hours or something the nature of the conversation changes drastically right so um me as a professor hits close to home because I often have students come and they want to meet with me but they don't know what to talk to me about right and what we're finding in our research evaluations of our prototype is that the students now have something to talk about right they now know that deeper question to ask right um and so we're thinking of AI here right not as a uh grer not
123as some telling you what you should do but actually as a fac facilitator of deeper interaction right um a second example is a project dear to me that is a collaboration with ahsd here actually um and when I started working with ahsd I learned that the one of the big drivers um missions of the district were were to really value these skills right these skills that are going to be the differentiators in the future uh what the district calls the five C's um this project is funded by the Chan Zuckerberg ini initiative and it's the same kind of thought process I want to offer you here so if we have an inherent mental model that education again is a sorting mechanism for society it's a very logical step right to create tools that grade students
124on their skills right and to tell them you're doing well on this skill and you're not doing well on this skill right uh you can imagine the acceleration of that kind of mental model right so we came in as a partnership and thought about this a little bit differently and this is actually this Mission comes from the district it's kind of why I love working with Y all because this is like coming from you all and uh so what if we think about education as centering student voice and reflecting their funds of knowledge right uh what if AI then instead could be designed not as a grader but as a tool that reveals uh the funds of knowledge that students have right could that change a system um so very similar to the career ground
125project uh we're trying to co create tools where uh students can reflect on their assignments and projects and life experiences we're actually designing an AI system that pulls out the kinds of collaboration they're talking about the kinds of leadership creativity create creative thinking uh so we're trying to pull it out from the students language right um and that's an affordance that we couldn't do before but now we can because we can experiment with large language models right U before we had to give a test because that was the only efficient technology we had right to assess something but now we can experiment with uh thinking about these skills from the students perspective the research on this um oh actually I made a note to myself I'm going to look directly in the camera right at
126this moment we also have AHS students at UC Irvine with my students in the DAP lab and they're watching this live stream so I want to give you a shout out right now um and the students are actually going to be co-designing the dashboards of how they would see their own data and we're going to integrate that with the district's tools um and so this is kind of the partnership process that the panel in the in the beginning was talking about right it's like this is a way to give uh students voice in the creation of their own tools but what's really cool about this interface is uh we're thinking about the tool not as a report card for students but as a tool for students to collect their experiences right and to demonstrate the
127kinds of five C's that they're collecting over their lifetime okay so research is ongoing this is the very first year of our Pilot We piloted this in the fall with teachers and our uh instructional coaches at ahsd we're collecting data um I will tell you it's a very messy process so that 70% there we're like kind of 70% there with the technical infrastructure right and it's a constant process for us um but we're also learning that uh we have to work together with the district uh to think about about the shifting of those of mindsets of how we might use the technology together right and this is where I give all of the credit to Educators in the room right back to that amplification Theory uh a our AI tool is not going to be
128the causal Factor here right the causal factor is going to be all the instructional coaches all the teachers working with us to tweak this tool to amplify your process right so uh I'm excited to share that research uh probably next year but um uh so I will end with these thoughts uh please come and uh talk with us more in depth about our work we'll be uh presenting both of these projects in more in-depth sessions but I want to end with uh some ways that we might be critical friends to one another as we're going to sessions uh learning about really exciting possibilities and that is really uh asking these things of each other let's think about what intentions this new idea is actually trying to promote and how the use of the AI is
129intended to amplify that intention right that's kind of a common vocabulary we can use um and another is to think about uh what Notions of equity we're implying with our Solutions here so and it's okay to admit that it's okay to say we're focused on test scores or we're focused on reducing gaps right um I tend to like to think about AI as how could it amplify the connections we make with one another how could we use AI to build richer interactions around the learning because I think that's where the magic is going to be uh but generally I think it would be super helpful to be critical friends with one another and ask each other what is Our intention what are we amplifying and I think that will be the secret magic sauce of
130uh reducing that dissonance between reality and aspiration right and I will try to figure out how to reduce the dissonance of my profile pictures in in the future but thank you very much [Applause] wow that was a great way to kick off our AI Summit thank you to our uh the spark talk speakers Keith strier and June an to our fireside chat guests to superintendent matuda and to supervisor chaffy now we'll spend the next few minutes at our tables sharing with one another a couple of the highlights of the morning sounds like there's some wonderful conversations at the tables now you're going to have a few minutes for a break before your first Workshop which will start at 11:00 all the workshops are near this plenary space and you can feel free to ask for
131help if you're findi having trouble finding your Workshop from our events team you can check your app to see which room you're supposed to be in we'll see you back for lunch in this same room at 12