The Greene County School Board approved new policies at its most recent meeting regarding an ever growing technology.

Superintendent Brett Abbotts says artificial intelligence (AI) is continuing to be more integrated into everyone’s daily lives. He points out that the school administration team utilizes AI to help think a little faster and smarter, as well as consider alternatives that they maybe haven’t thought of before. Abbotts tells Raccoon Valley Radio that there are an increasing number of nuisances for students to use AI that these new policies were needed, as recommended by the Iowa Association of School Boards.

“So really, it’s putting in these policies to provide a framework for how we want to teach, coach and just educate the greater being of our student body, anyway, around appropriate use, an effective use of it all.”

Abbotts adds that students have a great opportunity to know how to AI to improve and enhance their education and effectively use it in their daily lives within a classroom setting. The second and final reading of the policies will be considered by the School Board in their January meeting.