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AI is changing education in ways we don't totally understand.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carrino.

AI is becoming common in the classroom and not just for cheating.

A bevy of ed tech tools have incorporated the technology and schools are increasingly embracing them.

But educators don't always have the information they need to understand how these systems work and whether they're effective.

A recent report from the Center for Democracy and Technology suggests a framework for better transparency.

Hannah Kway de Lavalie co-authored the report. One example would be a tool called Wixie,

which is doing personalization, so letting students play themselves as avatars and online conversations.

Another one I would say that's quite popular is class dojo, which has a really wide range of

AI uses, but it's a learning platform allows students to take classes in different subjects and

just offer more of an academic experience.

And in the report, you point out many of these tools are built on sort of off-the-shelf consumer AI models like Chatchy PT or Claude.

What are some of the implications of that if you don't really know whether any guardrails

have been added for this kind of use in the classroom.

So I think it raises a number of questions. One of the maybe most straightforward ones is

how is the data that, you know, is being fed into this system being used? So if an ed tech tool

is built on top of something like, you know, chat GPT, Gemini, Claude,

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