BESE has created the Artificial Intelligence Committee. It’s a working group of education, technology, business and policy leaders that will look at how to expand AI integration in Louisiana classrooms and workforce development programs. Louisiana Tech president Dr. Jim Henderson chairs the new committee and says they want to see how AI can enhance teaching and empower students.
“Essential to learning is the development of critical thinking skills, and AI allows you to do that. So AI can reduce some of the tasks associated with learning. It can’t remove the learning itself, and it allows us to focus on those high-level things,” Henderson explained.
Henderson says one of their major goals is to determine how Louisiana schools can prepare students for an AI-driven economy.
“To extend this beyond the classroom and ensure that families have a level of comfort with something that, regardless of your opinion of it, is here, and it’s going to impact everybody’s life,” Henderson said.
Henderson says this committee will recommend an AI Literacy framework for educators, students and system leaders.
“AI literacy is understanding what’s the terminology around AI. What are these things mean? What are the prompts look like and how a different prompts result in different outcomes?” Henderson asked.
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