Hundreds of local students are conversing with artificial intelligence chatbots to show what they’ve learned after in-class assignments.
It’s one of many new uses of the Chromebooks that most school districts in the region have handed out to every student. Now parents are organizing to persuade their school boards to cut back on the technology’s use.
In Albany, students use the AI platform Snorkl to read or watch assignments set up by their teacher in class. After a session on history, for example, Snorkl’s AI bot will write back and forth with each student to ask them questions about the assignment, the district said. Snorkl then reports the results to the teacher, although Albany officials stressed that the teacher determines any grades…