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    AI-Powered Innovations in Mathematics Teaching & Learning: Initial Findings
    (Digital Promise, 2024-09) Sierra Noakes; Alison Shell; Parker Van Nostrand; Alexis M. Murillo; Pati Ruiz; Babe Liberman
    This report discusses findings based on responses to a request for information (RFI) led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Digital Promise, which received nearly 200 responses that described a variety of innovative approaches to leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) for mathematics teaching and learning. As AI becomes increasingly prevalent in education, three key questions often drive conversations around this emerging technology: What does AI in education look like today; what are the risks to leveraging AI in education and how might those risks be mitigated; and, what should AI’s role be in education? The report shares findings to support both education leaders with decisions about AI as well as providers in learning more about market saturation and strategies to mitigate risks.
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    An Ethical and Equitable Vision of AI in Education: Learning Across 28 Exploratory Projects
    (Digital Promise, 2024-10) Sierra Noakes; Alison Shell; Alexis M. Murillo; Parker Van Nostrand; Pati Ruiz; Shayla Cornick; Sana Karim
    This report shares the learnings across 28 exploratory projects from teams across K-12 school districts, nonprofits, and nonprofit and for-profit edtech companies, leveraging AI to support numerous goals across K-12 educational settings. Through this report, we aim to highlight the early successes of AI, surface the key barriers that call for cross-disciplinary and collective problem-solving, and consider the potential for each sector to drive forward an equitable future for AI in education. Preliminary findings from these projects show early evidence of AI’s effectiveness in various tasks, including translation, speech recognition, personalization, organizing and summarizing large qualitative datasets, and streamlining tasks to allow teachers more time with their students. However, these projects also experienced challenges with the current capabilities of AI, often leading to resource- and time-intensive processes, as well as difficulties around adoption and implementation. Additionally, many surfaced concerns around the ethical development and use of AI. Through this work, we have seen exciting ways that cross-sector collaborations are taking shape and gained a large sample of examples that emphasize the need for co-design to build meaningful AI-enabled tools. We call on education leaders, educators, students, product developers, nonprofits, and philanthropic organizations to step back from our day-to-day and imagine a revolutionized education system.
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    Empowering Education Leaders in Edtech Procurement
    (The Center for Outcomes Based Contracting at the Southern Education Foundation, 2024-09) Sierra Noakes; Parker Van Nostrand; Alison Shell
    In this presentation, Digital Promise describes the current challenges with edtech procurement. This includes an overview of our understanding on why districts have edtech contracts, how much is spent, whether it's used effectively, and if we're seeing an impact on outcomes. The presentation then explores resources and strategies to support district leaders with creating the infrastructure to regularly reference data to answer these questions for their community, including product certifications, the 5 Edtech Quality Indicators, and Outcomes Based Contracting (OBC). Additionally, there is information about OBC edtech contracts and assets the process brings to districts, including intentionality and detailed plans for implementation.