Does Your School Need an A.I. Advisory Team?

Ask The Tech Coach

28-05-2024 • 51 mins

Welcome to "Ask the Tech Coach," a podcast for Instructional Coaches and Digital Learning Leaders. In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff welcomes Matt Sherrill on the podcast to discuss the importance of forming an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Team in your school when supporting emerging technologies including AI. If you would like to be a part of future podcasts and share your thoughts, please contact the podcast.  We would love to have you join the show.

Weekly Topic

  • What is a Virtual Instruction Coach?
  • How to form an AI Advisory Team?
    • Who is on the team?

  • What are the advantages of using AI in the classroom?
  • How to get teachers to see the benefit of investing their time in becoming AI literate
  • How various states/districts are taking wildly different approaches to AI use and why
  • How does the average teacher go about ensuring the AI tools they are using are secure and safe for school purposes?
  • How can AI accelerate a much-needed overhaul to our current education system?
  • How to develop vertically-aligned AI literacy standards/lessons

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About our Guest: Matt Sherrill

Matt Sherrill has been a classroom teacher for 15 years, with 13 of them being in 8th Grade ELA. In that time, he has served as the Building Chair for the ELA department at his school for 10 years, as well as serving as a Virtual Instructional Coach for early career teachers around the state of Illinois for the last 2 years. Most recently, Matt has been a central member of his district's recently formed AI Advisory Team. As part of that work, he has helped design and deliver district-wide professional development around AI Literacy for teachers and staff, helped craft his district's AI Position Statement, and helped draft district guidelines regarding AI use for students and staff. Matt's passion for spreading AI Literacy among educators extends to the local university where he has also presented as a guest speaker to pre-service teachers this past school year.

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