How do you bring about change regarding AI adoption in your school or district? Change management is a massive job that can easily fail due to many factors. Let’s explore how to shift from one phase of District AI Adoption to another, identifying indicators for each phase of progress. You will also get access to a self-assessment you can take that provides specific feedback.
Read the blog entry
You can also read the first of the two part blog entries online
Self-Assessment
Ever get lost in the woods, a jungle, or just driving across a vast expanse? Ok, that maybe reveals a little of where I grew up and how I spent some of my youth. Anyways, you know what I mean. Lost and no idea where you are, not sure what all the signs mean. I got that feeling recently.
I was sitting in a workshop someone else was facilitating and I realized that a lot of people lacked a map to see where they were or might be. I know that maps are helpful to me, even when they aren’t perfect, because it helps me figure out where I am, where I might want to go, and where I’ve been. The map might be inaccurate or wrong in the particulars, but it was still helpful to have one.
That’s the idea that compelled me to develop the five phases of AI adoption. A continuum was insufficient because there are a lot of stakeholders in education, and lots of areas to ponder. You could easily put the AI Secured (originally “banned” until my supervisor suggested changing it) on the left side of a number line, and AI Everywhere on the right side. But all the way in between, lots of factors (e.g. District Policy, Guidance, Governance, Curriculum Impact) have to be considered.
In putting together an assessment, it was important to provide a tool that schools and organizations could use to gauge their progress. After putting the paper tool together, it was a simple matter to drop it into Custom GPT via OpenAI’s ChatGPT to make an assessment.
Paper Version
Here’s a self-assessment for gauging where your district is at in terms of the five phases of School District AI Adoption:
AI Version
And, here’s an AI version of that self-assessment. Access the self-assessment online via an OpenAI’s ChatGPT Custom GPT.
