Generative AI in SFUSD

What is Generative AI & ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is like a smart virtual assistant that can understand and generate human-like text. It's powered by a technology called generative AI, which means it can create its own responses based on patterns it has learned from a huge amount of text. Think of it as a language expert that can have conversations, answer questions, and provide information on various topics. It has the potential to support teachers by giving personalized assistance, creating educational content, and making learning more engaging and interactive for students.

The above paragraph was generated by giving ChatGPT the prompt: “Can you explain in a single paragraph what ChatGPT and Generative AI is to an audience of public school elementary and high school teachers unfamiliar with the concepts in a way that is easy to understand?”

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Recommendations for using AI in your classroom

Improve your efficiency by creating first drafts for

• Newsletters
• Lesson plans 
• Meeting Agendas
• Ideas for a paper, project, or assignment

Enhance your curriculum

• Adapt and provide scaffolds to access grade-level text 
• Generate images or pictures for writing prompts
• Allow students to explore AI Generative tools for creating art

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What do you need to be aware of?

PLEASE NOTE: a number of ChatGPT plagiarism checkers are offered on the internet, however they go out of date and are unreliable. In addition most of them require you to upload student work which is a violation of SFUSD's student privacy protection. [insert board policy]

• Inaccurate Information: Students should be advised that ChatGPT is good at creating very convincing answers that sound correct, but contain inaccurate information.
• Student privacy: When students engage with AI like ChatGPT, they may share personal information such as their names, locations, or even sensitive details about their lives. This data can be stored and potentially used for various purposes, including targeted advertising or profiling. 

SFUSD Filtering tools: Please note SFUSD uses a variety of software to keep our students and staff safe which can interact with each other in complex ways. As we evaluate AI applications, access to the tools may be different on district networks and devices than you experience with outside networks and devices, and that access may change throughout the year.

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