The Boulder Valley School District is banning ChatGPT on school Wi-Fi for all of its students. This follows BVSD’s policy to ban cell phones during the school day last year. Earlier this year, Denver Public Schools limited its use of ChatGPT, and now Boulder Valley School District is doing the same.
At Nevin Platt Middle School, Gabrielle Fuqua teaches multimedia and Spanish classes and is always working to check in with every student. But when she can’t be everywhere at once, she uses technology to help.
“One thing that AI can do with students, as far as like versus a worksheet, is like with the chatbot that I built, it has all of the standards, it has all of the information I have given the student, it can identify places where the student may have missed a day in school, maybe they missed something in understanding and it can personally explain them to them on the spot,” Fuqua said.
BVSD aims to have better control over how students utilize AI, so school administrators have blocked ChatGPT on school Wi-Fi for students and are exclusively using the AI platform MagicSchool instead…