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On this week's episode of the K-12 Tech Talk podcast, 2 largest districts in
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the United States have paused the use of generative AI in the classroom, while New
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York City also takes a stance on screen time, leaving teachers and administrators scrambling
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to make alternative plans for this year. Thanks for listening.
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Live from the NTP studios,
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this is the K-12 Tech Talk podcast. This is episode 281.
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It is hotter than all get out here. Chris, are you,
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are you melting?
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Yeah, I just mowed actually.
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Oh, and weed-eated.
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It's 102
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outside.
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Yeah, I don't really even want to talk about it actually, but let's
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just say I had a directive from the missus.
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Oh, oh, it's that kind of house.
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Put that on the record.
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Mark, do you get directed to do things, Mark?
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Funny, I got a directive this afternoon. I don't really know if it was a
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directive, but she just came home. They're back in school this week.
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Kids aren't there yet, but the teachers are back. And she sits down on the
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couch and she just looks at me and says, you know, our internet was down
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today.
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At school?
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Yeah. And then there was this long
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pause, like she's waiting for me to respond.
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And I was like, I don't care.
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She's like, you know, we couldn't print, we couldn't do this, we couldn't do that.
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We have all this prep work to do. And I was like, you know,
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You know, I don't work there anymore. That's not— that's not
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my job anymore. Now I'll be sleeping on the couch tonight. But anyways,
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but yeah, here you go, Mark.
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So yeah,
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second week of school, Chris, are you surviving?
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I'm in third week, right? No, second week of school. I mean, okay, no,
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I'm not surviving. It's all pretty much a blur. But yeah, I mean,
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our work order tickets are in the 30s now. I think last time we talked,
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they were still like 40s, 50s. So things are starting to get back
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to normal. Today felt pretty normal. We got new
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Wi-Fi access points over summer, still working out some kinks with
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those, maybe dealing with a switch issue, dealing with some other stuff.
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But yeah, it's
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starting to settle down.
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I had my standing meeting with
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my superintendent yesterday and I told— I don't, I don't think we've
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ever gotten that low that quick.
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I mean, that's great.
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We can school.
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It's awesome. Normally, we're 20s,
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mid-20s, and my guy's been killing it.
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We've had so many monitors break.
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I don't know. I bet we've gone through 20 monitors in
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the last month.
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Super weird.
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Yeah, super weird.
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I don't know what's going on.
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Well, my team was asking, they were asking for
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lunch.
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Oh, yeah.
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How dare they?
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Yeah, and I said,
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heck no, until we get under 30. Get back to work, increase productivity.
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Wow.
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And then I yelled, I'm kind of joking.
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So we'll see. I might be doing lunch pretty soon.
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You go out to your car and your tires are slashed is what's going to
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happen. What happened?
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Just my techs.
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Buy your guys some food, Chris.
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Jeez.
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I will once
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we do a good job. You know, I brought in a couple—
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I
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brought in a couple cases of Alani last week.
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Oh, wow.
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For Mike.
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I know.
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That's nice.
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Witch's Brew too. Like the
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good stuff that's hard to find.
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That's really nice of you. Anyway,
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whatever.
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All right.
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Back to school. It's all good.
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Yeah. It's definitely back to school. We'll say that.
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You want to hit one of our first real sponsors, Chris?
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Yeah. Lumu, a proud sponsor of the K-12 Tech Talk podcast.
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I'm going to put a link in the podcast description. It's to this article
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that they put out about Chromebook visibility. Lumu wants to help you
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get some visibility into what your Chromebooks are doing. They know that most schools,
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a lot of schools have one-to-one with Chromebooks. It's still important for us to know
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what's going on on those devices, just the same as our Windows boxes.
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Lumu can do that. So check out lumu.io.
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You know, it's been a busy week in the news.
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And I feel like some of these things could have happened about a month
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ago. We would've been able to distill
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these things or properly implement these things
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rather than implementing them or doing them in the first or second week of school.
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I say that in context, Marc, East Coast hasn't started yet, so maybe
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it is perfect timing. Maybe we're the weirdos in the Midwest that start way too
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early. Marc, you have been keeping a ticker going.
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I think your full-time job is monitoring the news.
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That's right.
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Mark the
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ticker.
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Not monitoring my wife's internet. That's what I'm doing.
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And that should
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be priority. Are you going to send her with a hotspot to school tomorrow
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in case it doesn't work tomorrow?
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It's a good question.
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I haven't thought about it.
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Would she know how to turn— would she know how
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to use a hotspot? Would she know how to use it? What's her tech savviness?
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Don't answer that. No.
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Okay. No, we'll just leave it at that.
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Move on.
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Mark!
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Is that a no, you're not answering, or a no,
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she wouldn't know how to use it?
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All right, moving on. Uh,
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actually, all of the stories tonight are follow-ups from stories that we've talked
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about. So, uh, these are, if you've been listening for the last few weeks,
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these are going to be updates on a lot of stories. So let's start with
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PaperCut. We did mention this last week. This was an urgent patch
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request from PaperCut. Since then, they have released I got to say, one of the
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best CEO letters after a security incident
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I think I've ever read. Did you guys read this one from the CEO of
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PaperCut?
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I sent it to you.
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Yes, I read it.
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Fantastic job. You could tell this guy put a
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lot of heart and soul into writing this, and he has a lot of care
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for this issue. So long story short,
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on August 27th, an education customer of PaperCut
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did discover a compromised server. Since then, they have released multiple patches.
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So if you are using PaperCut, it is urgent
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for you to take a look at their, their website and
make sure you're updating
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with multiple patches for that server and following their directions to take
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them offline. This is an exploit involving an authentication
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bypass in PaperCut's core service. So this was
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a P0 vulnerability. So they acted pretty quickly and
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this had allowed attackers to achieve remote code execution.
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So basically, your print server could be used as a command
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and control server by the bad guys through this vulnerability. But as
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long as you're patching, you should be in better shape from now on.
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And what
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better way to wreak havoc in a school district than cause the paper
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cut server to go down in the first 2 weeks of
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school?
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A lot of our tickets come in if they're printer related.
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Oh, we pretty— I mean, they get prioritized.
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So yeah. We say reboot, please.
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It's funny, I logged into PaperCut to check
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what version I was on and stuff. And when you log into PaperCut, if you
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don't have PaperCut, when you log in, one of the first things that you can
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see is the dashboard of the print jobs for the day. And it gives you
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like a historical view of, I don't know if it's the last 10 days
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or month, whatever it is. But our first day of school,
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I think it was first day of school, 70,000 prints.
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Nice.
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Unbelievable.
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Unbelievable the amount of prints we go through.
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You know who didn't have any problems
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with printing? My wife, because her internet was down all day long,
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so they had no choice.
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I rolled,
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I rolled the, uh, one of the updates yesterday midday,
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right in the middle of the day. We're updating this dog and, uh,
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we, we couldn't print. I broke 4, 4 copiers in the process.
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That's funny because one of the things in this article was the CEO acknowledging that
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administrators need like change windows. And that's why they were
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rolling out updates in different ways, but not you, Josh. You're just pressing that bad
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boy button.
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Yeah, it was 2 o'clock, man. Day was pretty much over. Hit go.
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I thought the copier in my office came up, so I thought everything was fine.
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Well, lo and behold, the main office copiers didn't
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come back up. We had to go manually touch them. It is fine. No big
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deal.
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The letter is good. Very candid.
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Yeah, candid. Super candid.
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Explains why they didn't talk
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initially. I mean, gets personal,
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relatable, relational, and then very— and then technical.
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Like he spits it out, tells a good storyline to it.
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Well, moving on to Anthropic, we talked about Claude for
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teachers about 6, 7 weeks ago. And Claude has—
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or Anthropic has—
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6, 7.
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Josh, put him on mute. Chris, mute him.
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Kick him.
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You did it. You're so 2025,
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Josh. All right. God, you just
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threw me off here. About 6
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weeks ago, only 6, exactly 6 weeks ago,
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no more than 6.
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Not 7 weeks ago. No.
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Anthropic released Claude for teachers. We had some concerns about
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it. I had written a post on LinkedIn about my concerns of releasing a tool
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for teachers without any sort of district controls.
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Since then, I have been actually in conversations with Anthropic about what
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do districts need, and they have released their offering in
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the last week. You can now, if you are a K-12 district, you can sign
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up at claw.ai/k12districts.
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You verify that you are who you are. You'll add a TXT record to
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your DNS to claim ownership. And then from there, you can
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claim back all of those teacher accounts and put on security controls.
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Josh, you were probably one of the first people to do that. How'd the
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process go?
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Smooth. Very, very smooth. I would like to back
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up for a second, Mark. I think we can call your, your note on
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LinkedIn a manifesto.
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It, it was long. It wasn't threatening in any way.
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It wasn't
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long. I just had a few points that,
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you know, got somebody's attention.
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And let's just say you had to scroll to
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read the whole thing. Yeah.
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And like 10, 10.5 Like
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you had to scroll. No, no, I— yeah,
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I signed up as— I don't remember who it was that sent
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me the link. Someone sent me the link to sign up. Yeah, I signed up.
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It was super easy to create the district account. And then, you know,
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most administrators at this point have gone through or some
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other service to verify you own the domain by adding a TXT record.
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That's, that's nothing new for people like us. So that was super
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easy. I was verified relatively quickly,
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was able to go through the settings. They're pretty
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self-explanatory. And then I hit the button for— or I did the SSO process,
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which was super quick. Again, that's nothing new for us.
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Like we've done other SSO products before, did that
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and hit convert my accounts. And we had— I think it showed
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me you get to download a CSV file of the accounts that exist
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with your domain in use. I think we had 9, and then those
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9 people got emails that said you have until X date— I
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think it's the end of September— to convert your account into
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the district account. I did mine, my superintendent
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did hers, and it just— it literally— it gives you the option, do you want
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to copy over the stuff that you have existing, or do you want to start
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fresh?
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Yeah.
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I copied all my stuff over, and all of my prior chats with
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Claude are there. And I'm, we're rocking, man. I got Claude Cowork installed.
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I'm getting my daily, uh, what do they call that? The daily,
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the morning, morning digest, whatever that thing's called.
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I love that thing. Searching my mail, searching my calendar.
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Yeah, it's great.
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Great. And I'm not doing any
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of that because we don't approve of Claude yet because we have a vetting and
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approval process. So unlike Josh, I did not press the
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buttons and add it to my calendar and my Gmail and give it a
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digest every day of my life. I, because I vet everything now.
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Sure.
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No.
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And Josh just lives free and just uploads
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anything to AI now. He has no standards.
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He just picks every terms of service he can.
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He drank the plot Kool-Aid. I load terms of service
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into AI and have it tell me about terms of services. No,
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my rationale for claiming the domain early,
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quickly, whatever you want to say, is to get a handle on those
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other accounts that were out there. And if you don't enable
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SSO
for your entire structure,
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those— anybody new can't log in to create an account.
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So from my, my opinion is go
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out, claim the domain, take ownership, create SSO.
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And if you don't want to roll it out, just Keep that circle
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of people that have approval to SSO and create accounts small.
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You don't have to give it to everybody right away.
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That was one of the
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debates afterwards is if we're not adopting this or we haven't even discussed
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this, why should I go through this approval process and claim this domain? I think,
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Josh, you raised a good point around these teachers are creating accounts
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on their own. And by claiming this domain, you're not necessarily saying
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we're going to roll this out, but you are getting the ability to get control
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over those accounts. That was my point.
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Yeah. And I agree.
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And if you set it right, you can prevent staff
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from creating those shadow IT or shadow
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AI accounts without your knowledge.
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I think it's,
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we can, or I can lightly say it, the magic
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school, all of our teachers got accounts and then you
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can only really get that insight and get that look if you did paid Magic
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School. School districts had to wrestle with that. This is not that.
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Like, it's free and you can have some insight.
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Well, caveat to that, it's free, they're saying, for a year.
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So that— I've talked to a couple districts, that's the big question
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of, do I put effort, time, and allow people to
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onboard with this if the rug will be yanked?
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Right now, right now, that's The statement is a
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year. And I understand they can't forecast beyond that.
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I get it. And I also understand those districts' mentality of, well, if it's
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just a year, I'm not doing it. But again, I would argue
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to claim the domain to prevent your teachers from doing it on their own.
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Yeah.
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Way different vibe than the ChatGPT stuff we went
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through, right? Where it was, it was pretty up
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in the air at the very beginning.
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Well, and I'm still waiting for verification,
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I think, of my domain with ChatGPT. I told them I
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have my domain, but then I don't know, I guess I only did half.
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So I'm still waiting on that.
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So I did have conversations with Anthropic about
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just that, the pricing and how do you let
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districts know what the future is going to look like. And I think it's
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hard because, you know, from their perspective, this is their education team
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is under a team called Beneficial Deployments. And so This
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is not a capital venture
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for them. This is not a money-making venture for them. But at the same time,
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they're not the people who can make promises forever and ever
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and ever. So that's why there is that date there. I can't say,
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I don't think they can say what their plans are after that date right now.
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But at the same time, this is intended to be a
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beneficial deployment.
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That's an interesting term.
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So at bare minimum, Go claim your stuff.
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I think
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so. Chris, you going to claim your domain tomorrow? Are you doing it right now?
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I probably won't just because you guys are talking about it.
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Yeah.
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Well, that ends all the happy news or the—
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sorry, that ends all the happy ANI news.
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Let's go down to New York who
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released their updates. Now, was it last week or 2 weeks ago we talked about
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how New York has been having community meetings? There's been a lot of outrage.
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Well, the mayor and chancellor have come out with their next steps, which is
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a pause on AI in grades K to 8.
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So this would be a complete ban on student-facing generative AI tools.
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At the high school, there'll be limited, uh, students must complete
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2 45-minute AI literacy modules. Of course,
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there is going to be exceptions for, uh, IEPs or
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other, uh, specific purposes. But along with that, they also released
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some screen time restrictions. Now, they're banning K-2, so no
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individual one-on-one screen time. So, there's still
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going to be technology in these classrooms, but you're not going to have a one-to-one
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device program in grades K-2. Grades 3-5
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will be a recommended maximum of 30 minutes a day.
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Grades 6-8 are a recommended maximum of 45 minutes
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daily. Keep in mind those are recommended maximums. These are not hard limits.
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And then grades 9 to 12 is where it gets a little bit looser,
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more— there's less restrictions being applied to them. This has been met with
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quite a lot of fanfare from those people who are— from those who are concerned
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about AI in schools. I will say, when you look over this,
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I don't think this is that monumental or big
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of a shift. It's I would say it's more aligned with what
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most classrooms are doing right now. You are seeing
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less and less 1-to-1 device programs in grades K-2.
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I gotta say, in a district the size of New York, that is just as
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much of a cost savings benefit as it is an instructional
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design.
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Yeah.
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And I think, you know, by them saying
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a recommended maximum of 30 to 45 minutes a day for grades 2
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or 3 to It just kind of puts more
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best practices in the hands of teachers without kind of tying their hands behind their
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back. So I'm in favor of what New York is doing. Again,
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this is only a 1-year pause though.
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Mark, refresh my memory.
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Did it call out an allowance for state
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assessment or reading assessment, reading plan tools like that?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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For lower levels?
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Yep.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So those number
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bands are more for edtech apps, learning apps.
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Diagnostic assessments, district assessments, district initiatives are
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excluded from that.
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So really, they're not going to get rid
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of all of the devices in the elementary buildings. They're probably— you,
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you can assume cart-based system where they'll still be able to
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do their reading assessments and math assessments and stuff like that.
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And I think really, that's go— I could completely
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get on board with this model. Like, to me There's
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not a whole lot of reason for 1-to-1 K through
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2, 3-ish, even up to 5th grade maybe,
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except for those state assessment and diagnostic tools.
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Chris, I know you guys are like send home K-12, aren't you?
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Our K-2 doesn't go home, but we are 1-to-1.
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And we used to just do carts, like between 2 teachers, they would share a
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cart. And I was all for that. But that building
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and those teachers and that principal wanted
one-to-one
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for scheduling's sake. I felt like that was like their top reason
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so that they didn't have to share a car. Like they wanted all, like when
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it was time for whatever those things were, that all of kindergarten
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could do that in that same block of time. And I, 'cause I remember my
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not funny to other people joke, like I think I could have fixed that with
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Like, let me touch the schedule of the day. Like, I felt like I could
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fix this without throwing more technology at it.
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Yeah.
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So,
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if you were to tell my K-2 that we're going to go back to that,
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I think that would be the first thing they would talk about is the schedule,
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how the day works and how those carts were shared. And again, I could push
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back on that because for the most part, when I walk around
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our elementary K-2, Chromebooks aren't in use.
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Right.
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I mean, again, this whole 30 minutes a day sounds about right
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to me. We do allow Chromebooks when
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we go to grades 3 through 5. 3rd doesn't
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go home unless the principal says, so that's more like long-term
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sickness or, you know, that kind of bit, a trip or something. And then 4th
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and 5th can go home as like the teacher directs.
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And that's usually like when they do those presentations that they want to give to
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like parents. Or like a research paper to go over.
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It's usually some kind of event that's centered around it.
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But at my school district, I think 6 through 8 would not like the 45-minute
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thing. Again, how does that play out over the course of
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the 7, 8 periods we have in a day? I don't know our screen
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time number. I don't have that data. Like, I don't know what that number is,
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but I think 45 might be a hard bit for my 6 through 8.
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And I think that's the biggest thing. You know, I had
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those conversations with my superintendent of— for us to even make an
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educated guess at or come up with an idea of, hey, we're going to
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say it's an hour, we're going to, we're going to shoot for an hour.
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We need to know what our number is before we even think about
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trying to set a number. And really, we don't like that, the idea
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of a number, but you got to know where you are. And I think if
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you don't spend time doing that, And getting good data with
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that, without people trying to be deliberate and
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say, hey, use your devices less because we're measuring our numbers.
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Yeah, you've gotta come up with a plan to figure out where you are first.
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I'd be really curious, like New York, like how 6th through 8th grade teachers,
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and I don't know what their current environment is on how, you know, one-to-one or
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whatever, but how are those teachers feeling now that they know they have to spread
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45 minutes of screen time across Again, I'm assuming
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7 to 8 teachers.
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Yeah, I mean, I think when you
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look at grades 3 to 5, that's usually a self-contained classroom or
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with limited movement so that teacher can say, okay, I'm going to do a math
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lesson on technology day and everything else is paper-based.
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Grades 6 to 8 is when the kids start to move between classrooms and
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that's where it gets complicated, logistically hard. So I think that's why
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they are saying that this is a recommended maximum. of 45 minutes a
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day, that they're not putting hard limits down because for
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them to make this decision right now as school is starting, that is a logistical
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nightmare for teachers to deal with. So we'll see. I'm genuinely
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curious to see how teachers respond to this one. I do think
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that the interesting thing is going to be this generative AI ban because
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there are so many edtech apps that have generative AI built into it.
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So if you think of just Khan Academy,
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Quizlet, you've got Khanmigo. How many tools are,
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or edtech companies are out there going, wait a minute, we don't have the ability
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to turn off that generative AI feature. So, or do
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we, or do the schools know how to do that? And so I think that's,
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that is just the ugly part right now is that there's probably a lot of
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people trying to figure out exactly what that means because there's so many apps
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that are going to be caught in the middle of that.
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Yeah, it might be.
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I mean, you take the size of New York and if they
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follow through on this, yeah, it's going to make a lot of tech
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companies add abilities to turn things on and off.
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Yes.
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Because if it's— if you don't have the ability to turn on and
off,
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New York, I'm guessing, is going to say see ya because you
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didn't give us that ability. So I'm not against that part of it. That might
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be a trickle-down thing for me.
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But what I would be against would be those
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companies saying, well, we have that toggle, but you have to pay.
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You have to pay for the full-fledged product to have that toggle.
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You can't use our freemium product for that.
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Just Gmail. There's so much generative AI
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built into Gmail right now that are you able to toggle that
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feature off in grades K to 8 in New York City public schools,
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or is that something that You know, this is going to be an unenforceable
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policy. I don't know.
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Man, you talk
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about a segue. That was a great segue, Mark.
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Well, speaking of
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toggling features on and off through Google,
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a couple of weeks ago we talked about how Gemini was added as
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a tab in students' Google Classroom, and we had said,
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hey, this default on thing is not okay. And we
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even had a listener email come back and say, well, it's only on if You
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already have Gemini turned on. Well, a lot of districts
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came back to school this year and were surprised to see that
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there was a tab that allowed them to use Gemini. So EdWeek
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had an article of some districts that were pretty upset. There were some even
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instructional leaders and experts who were saying, hey, look,
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we're not saying that this is the wrong thing to do, but you just need
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to give schools the message that that they're the ones in control.
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And even though Google did announce this one with 2 months advance notice,
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I will say that that announcement coming out in June and then turning on or
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going live in August is probably the 2 months where,
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you know, you're not going to have the most attention from school districts.
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That's when everybody's on vacation. So a little bit of heat. We did
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predict this one a couple of weeks ago. We'll see if Google responds
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with future rollouts.
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I had to deal with today,
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Google Search and AI Overview. I had
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a kid reach out that I was thankful to the kid. He reached
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out, he was like, hey, I was clicking around on my Chromebook and I did
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XYZ and I can get to something that I know I'm not supposed to.
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And I haven't told anybody, I just want to let you know kind of thing.
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And I had to go do some stuff with my content filter to get something
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that I thought was working properly to get it working properly again.
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And again, I think it all circles back to this whole idea of this
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stuff gets turned on by default. It's just on. It just gets introduced.
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That thing that changed for me, I didn't know that that thing was changing.
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I learned about it after my kids started to use it.
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I'd just go back with Google and all the small, all the medium-sized school districts.
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If you're a school district that doesn't have a tech or has a tech that
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might be off all summer, a tech that doesn't get the updates from Google,
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default on, big change. It's going to be this. You're just going to be
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reacting to it all the time.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Bring it, Google. Turn me on. Whoa, that sounded wrong.
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Moving on here.
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I'm glad I stopped when I did.
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Well, now pivoting from default on to default off is LAUSD.
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So if you remember, LAUSD was the first district their super— the
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previous superintendent went full on into AI last year with the
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AI chatbot that obviously ran into some issues. Well,
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the AI working group, or the, the school committee group, this week met,
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and they were surprised when the district came to them and said, you know what,
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we've changed, we're going to turn off AI for this year. So LAUSD
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is now K-12, no AI allowed.
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So their software filters will be blocking access to generative AI websites,
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chatbots, and any sort of AI apps on district Chromebooks
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and tablets.
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Damn.
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If an educational tool contains embedded
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AI components that cannot be disabled, the district is removing
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the tool entirely. So they are going full on into this one to
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remove this one. It caught the school committee off guard. They were
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surprised, but for the most part were pleased by this decision. So now you have
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the top 2 largest districts in the country that have banned AI
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either fully or partially. We'll see if more districts start to follow suit.
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--> 27:50.125
We got, we got Josh pressing, pressing Claude all in.
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Paper cut updates.
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Claude.
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We got LA and New York going up in flames,
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getting rid of AI because it's terrible. It's evil.
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This is the world, boys. I don't know.
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The LA stance, more power to you if you're able to do that and you
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have that much faith in your filter that that you feel like you
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can prevent kids from getting to unofficial or shadow
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AI-type products. But we all know the
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way these kids are able to find proxies and hit game sites,
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they're gonna be finding proxies and hitting AI sites.
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So again, it comes back, Chris, I think it
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comes back to kind of your mentality on things. Would you rather see
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it and know what's going on Or block it and not see it.
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I'm just
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really stuck on the, the equity stuff
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with this. The kids in New York and the kids in LA and the kids
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in Missouri, whether it's blocked or not at school,
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they're all using AI. So like, we have to
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figure out what we support. There has to be a shortlist of AI
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tools that we support in some ever— whatever kind of small progression of a way.
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to students and faculty and staff. Like, we gotta pick, we gotta pick some stuff.
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I just, I don't think get rid of it is
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the answer.
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I don't think it's viable.
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To your pause, I don't,
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I, it doesn't make sense to me.
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I, so I do a lot of
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work with school districts right now around AI and teacher training,
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and teachers are very positive about their usage of
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AI as a productivity tool. They're very Up
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in the air when it comes to as a learning tool. And so when you
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think, when it, when I see school districts saying we're going to say no
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to AI in the classroom, it's not necessarily we're saying no to AI
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for kids. We're just saying as a learning tool, this just doesn't make
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sense right now. I think I can get on board with that, with saying I,
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I see the value of AI as a productivity tool. I think students,
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uh, you know, under the age of 18 can benefit from these
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tools outside of school. I know there's a lot of risks,
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but in terms of how these tools contribute or harm the learning process,
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that's where I see New York and LA drawing a line and saying
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we're just not seeing it yet.
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I completely
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agree. I, I just popped in my head a corollary between AI
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use and vaping. We all can agree— yeah,
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wait for it. Wait for it. Follow me on this trail.
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We all can agree—
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Vape trail. Is it smoke? Am I following
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the smoke right now?
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The vape trail? Yes.
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No. Yeah.
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We all can agree vaping is bad for kids and you can
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argue adults.
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Yes.
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Schools have banned— yes.
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There's no arguing adults.
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It is bad for adults.
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I'm not arguing.
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Whatever.
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Schools have banned vapes for kids, right? Like,
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that is a disciplinary event. You can get suspended
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depending on if it has weed in it, you know, whatever. But that does nothing
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to prevent them from bringing them to school and getting caught in the bathroom
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or using them in the bathroom, right? Or even in the classroom if they've,
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you know, if they're brave. This same thing with saying we're
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banning AI for student use. isn't really going
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to prevent them from using it. So I,
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I, what are the repercussions? Is it a disciplinary event?
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Would it be better off to kind of be able to see what they're doing
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with it? I think you have to be ready to have that conversation
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and have a plan for discipline if they are caught using it.
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Yeah, the hard part for me is I agree with Mark when he says the
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whole bit about we don't necessarily want to use AI for the learning.
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Sure.
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That piece. But then there's the part of me that is like,
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but we need to teach kids proper use of AI.
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Yeah.
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So I want to give them the tool, but not necessarily use the tool for
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the thing that they're experiencing while they're going through school. And that's a hard bit
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because you're either using it or you're not.
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Yeah.
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I do want my students to use
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it, to know how to use it so that when they leave high school,
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they're in a proper place to go get that job that's
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kicked butt with that and they can do that thing. I know that AI has
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in many cases helped my productivity and helped
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me do different things. So I want our kids to leave with that stuff,
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leaving high school with that. But yeah, I don't want them
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writing the essay, doing the thing, seeing the negative effects
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because they're not using their brains as much kind of stuff. So I don't know
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that sweet spot in there.
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Yeah. And I think, Josh,
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to your point, and I've heard a lot of comparisons to drugs and alcohol
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and other things that we ban for youth and whether or not that
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is a good or bad thing. I think, I don't think LA and New York
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City are saying that we're banning AI and therefore kids
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are never going to use it. I think that everybody assumes that kids are going
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to use this at home. I think they're strictly taking the purpose
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or the Taking the point that as a learning tool, we're just not there.
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The other thing though, and to your point around vaping,
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if you are in an environment where you're surrounded by vape and you're surrounded
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by people who are vaping and smoking and doing drugs and alcohol, then it's
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only natural that you are going to absorb that and you are going to start
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to partake in those kinds of things. I think by saying no
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to AI in classrooms, they're also taking a stance on We're gonna try to minimize
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the amount of exposure that students have to these tools that are not necessarily
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proven. So they're just trying to minimize the amount of exposure
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that kids have. Go ahead.
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So, so you're saying we're not gonna
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allow hotboxing of AI?
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Correct.
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Correct.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Yeah, I was just reminded of,
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I, I had this whole thing figured out too. Josh, I love that you brought
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Previous school. So we're obviously— so we're going to— the
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trajectory of a lot of this is we're ditching one-to-one. We're going to go back
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to less devices per kid.
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Maybe go— are we going back to computer labs, boys? I don't know.
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So previous school district I was at, they had the teachers lounge and
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then they had the smoking teachers lounge. Oh, nice. And my tech
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office got put into the smoke that was the smoking. So all the walls were
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like a yellow that they used to be white kind of vibe. So to
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fix the thing I'm talking about, we can still teach AI,
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like, okay, AI isn't for learning and we're not going to
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use it on our devices, but we can have an AI lab. We can still
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teach proper use of AI under particular conditions kind of vibe.
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Yeah. Yeah. So, okay, computer labs.
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I want to do computer labs again. Do you think Josh
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is going to install like AI detectors, like vape detectors in the
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bathrooms? And he'll be like, that's what he's going for. Running down the hallway.
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Someone's using vape. Claude! First of
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all— Is that you again, Claude? First of all,
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Claude and I have a good relationship. Second of all,
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vape detectors are the biggest waste of money a school district can spend their money
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on. That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about AI detection in the bathroom.
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I hate vape detectors. AI labs,
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Chris, like you said, I'm testing or playing with,
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and I've got working successfully, a feature gate
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in Google that I got from someone.
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So who— whoever— students don't have Gemini turned
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on. They go and take this Google Form quiz about AI or
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about whatever. They pass that quiz, Gemini gets
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turned on and enabled for 30 days, and then at the end of that 30
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days, it automatically turns back off. Okay. They have to take another quiz. So to
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your point, Chris, an AI lab, you could easily do
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something like that. I'm in. We're gonna play with
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could have gone so many different ways. Is it me
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or do one of you guys have a battery low in a smoke
detector?
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Not me. I just heard it again. All right. I think it's
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you, Mark. Okay, I gotta go fix this.
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A few moments later. Well,
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we've been driven off the rails by a rogue
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smoke detector, but we're gonna try and talk about Agentic
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AI. What is that noise now? I, I don't know.
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Just for backstory, we probably cut out like 3 hours of troubleshooting.
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Uh, I've got a smoke detector in my neighbor's house that's
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Oh, it's your neighbor. We can't do anything
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about it. Dog's freaking out. The dog's on my lap.
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You could probably hear the dog breathing so heavily right now. This is a mess.
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I didn't realize it was in your neighbor's house. That sucks.
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That's the licking. That's the dog.
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You're hearing licking, not Mark.
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Oh, well, we were supposed to talk about agentic
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AI, but I think I need to go right now. Yeah, I don't know if
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this is it. This isn't the night. And I'll tell you guys too, I've been
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like avoiding it, but my headphones broke. Like,
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I've noticed, like, like I've been living a different life over
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here. I can only hear in one ear. I mean, it's fine. Just on vapes.
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Chris's, Chris's headphones have fallen off. I have a dog that is
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like freaking out in my lap right now. And he's just breathing very
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heavily into the microphone. Let's just call it. It's okay to
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call it. Okay. All right. Sponsors understand. Chris, hit those final,
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them. Thanks for listening. Thanks for hanging out. Life isn't always easy.
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Sometimes there's mountains, sometimes there are valleys. Keep your heads up out there. Smoke detectors.
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Smoke detectors. Vape detectors. Hope you guys are all having a great week in the
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