EdTech Unwrapped - Lessons from Leaders - Episode Five
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Reasat Chowdhury shares the fascinating journey behind how the district has navigated the complexities of emerging technologies, how the educational experience is enhanced for educators & students, and future ambitions for a tech-enabled education.
This episode explores...
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Leveraging data and predictive analytics to improve student outcomes and enable early intervention
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Proprietary AI-powered tools to address specific needs of the NYC public school system
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Balancing the use of external AI technologies with building in-house solutions that bring more data privacy
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The pedagogical applications of AI to support teachers and students, combined with operational efficiency improvements
Episode highlights
"When ChatGPT became a thing, it became the talk of the town. All of a sudden, New York City Public School decided that they don’t really know if it's safe for classroom usage, so they decided to ban it all across the New York City public school network and devices too." - 8:10 - Reasat Chowdhury
“What we did was integrate a math engine with the LLM, and guess what? The response was great, because the math engine can take those problems and answer, and then you can use the LLM, the power of AI, to curate the response and give it to the student.” - 16:15 - Reasat Chowdhury
“We had a point to make: Don’t ban AI. Rather, make it safer, because students will use it anyway” - 21:40 - Reasat Chowdhury
“I personally believe that whenever you build any kind of application, you don't really build it for the users. You build it with the users.” - 22:35 - Reasat Chowdhury
“One teacher was like, ‘Do you think AI is going to replace the teachers?’, and I said, ‘No, absolutely not’. We don't want that. We want human interaction to be there. The social, emotional thing is missing in AI.” - 33:35 - Reasat Chowdhury
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Listen online now:
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Links & references
SMART
https://www.linkedin.com/company/smart-technologies/
Duncan Verry
https://www.linkedin.com/in/duncan-verry-aa44175/
Reasat Chowdhury
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rchowdhury/
NYC Department of Education
https://www.linkedin.com/company/nyc-department-of-education/
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