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Santa Barbara County Education Office Artificial Intelligence
Acceptable Use of AI

Education in the age of Artificial Intelligence brings opportunities and complexities.

 

 

TK-12 education professionals in Santa Barbara County are invited to dive into Artificial Intelligence together— exploring tools and innovations, considering points of leverage, and examining potential pitfalls. Let's learn with and from one another.

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AI Exploration Challenges for Education
Professional Learning Workshops for AI
Learn More About SBCEO AI Contacts

AI Exploration Challenges

Have you been interested in AI tools and applications, but don’t know where to start? Or maybe you are looking for safe and meaningful AI activities for your classroom, but don’t have the time to search for them?

If either of these questions apply to you, or you are simply AI-curious, download our AI Exploration Challenges PDF, to investigate thirteen different ways educators can utilize AI tools.

SBCEO AI Exploration Challenges are designed to:

  • Take 15 minutes or less to complete

  • Meet CA state compliance laws around data privacy and security

  • Inspire the use of AI in a classroom setting

  • Build professional community throughout Santa Barbara County 

Aligned to the ISTE Standards for Educators, CA K-12 Computer Science Standards, and AI4K12’s Five Big Ideas in Artificial Intelligence, each micro-learning task will help educators build confidence and experience with AI with an instructional lens.

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AI Exploration Challenges

AI4K12's Five Big Ideas in Artificial Intelligence to Consider:

AI Professional Learning Workshops

2024-25 Virtual Sessions

All sessions are 3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. and independent of each other. AI Virtual Sessions are for TK-12 educators who want to explore the impacts of AI on educational systems, teaching and learning, ethics and culture.

October 10 - AI for Teachers 101
Virtual - 3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m   Register
Ways AI can be helpful for teachers • Considerations for responsible use • Current trends

November 14 - Teacher Use of AI
Virtual - 3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m   Register
AI tools for productivity • AI tools for differentiation • AI strategies to support student learning

December 12 - CS Ed Week and AI
Virtual - 3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m   Register
Educator digital citizenship • Student digital citizenship • Identify, bias, and AI

February 13 - AI and Assessment
Virtual - 3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m   Register
Using AI to test prep • Assessing student learning in the era of AI

March 13 - Student Use of AI
Virtual - 3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m   Register
Student safety and data privacy • Developmentally appropriate student use of AI • Exploring tools

May 8 - AI Literacy
Virtual - 3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m   Register
Continuum of resources to support AI literacy discussions with students • Celebrating Day of AI and National AI Literacy Day

I learned that AI encompasses so much more than I thought. I learned that AI is not new. I realized that math has been dealing with AI tools and cheating for some time now. We need to get ahead of the students in this issue.

Joslyn, AI Leadership Summit Participant

Teachable Machine is an easy way to get students into the driver's seat as trainers and demystify how AI works...and show that it is not infallible.Kristen, Fall 2023 Workshop Participant

I really like the newly developed language going from Acceptable to Responsible. I think this will help plant the seed of stakeholders in understanding how AI is a tool/resource versus being a replacement for student quality work and/or teachers' pedagogy.Pedro, Fall 2023 Workshop Participant

Contacts

Tiffany Carson
Director, School and District Support
tcarson@sbceo.org
(805) 964-4710 ext. 5205

Lauren Arangueren
Director, Equitable Systems
larangueren@sbceo.org
(805) 964-4710 ext. 5435

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