Education experts say they're ready for AI this time

AI is blazing a new trail this year in education as schools take concrete steps to incorporate the technology into their teaching, replacing the panic and confusion educators previously faced.   Arizona State University (ASU) is leading the charge in higher education, announcing a partnership with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, on a “pilot” program to make AI a core part of professors’ and students’ lives.  “Our goal in this really is to recognize that generative AI is a technology that has a role currently, but also will continue to be a part of the job prospects that our students have,” said Kyle Bowen, deputy chief information officer for ASU Enterprise Technology. “It’ll continue to change and and modify the environments that we work and learn in, and so it’s critical for us to be kind of active participants to help define what the future of that technology looks like.”  Anne Jones, vice provost for undergraduate education at ASU, said now is the time for schools to find out where AI can help them, as well as where it isn’t working. “I think you have to think of the next year as being a kind of a pilot phase or a preliminary phase of thinking about how to effectively use these technologies in the context of a public research intensive university,” Jones said. Some K-12 administrators have also partnered with AI education groups to help teachers learn more about the technology and how they can wield it. And lawmakers at the end of…Education experts say they're ready for AI this time