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What is happening just south of the border in Seattle should be wake-up call for all parents in BC. Microsoft buying its way into the education system, students being told to use AI to generate ideas. thebulletinsea.org/issue-47-sps...

thebulletinsea.orgIssue 47 – SPS Takes Microsoft Money to Push Generative AI in ClassroomsSPS accepted a $75,000 Microsoft grant and three years of Copilot for teachers, staff, and high schoolers while other districts hit pause. Who benefits when the free offer ends?

Nora Kenworthy@kenworthy.bsky.social

Day three of fourth grade and my child was presented with a school district (SPS) approved presentation about how using AI to generate ideas, brainstorm and do research is fine. I feel like I’m going to blow a gasket.

23/10/26, 4:41 am6 reposts15 likes

ElizabethwithaZ

@elizabethwithaz.bsky.social

We tried to work with SPS to get professional development programs that were not simply adoption a couple years ago, and the folks in the district in charge were not interested.

ElizabethwithaZ

@elizabethwithaz.bsky.social

I talked to an ELA teacher there who said he tried to use it to level tests for his students, and it produced trash.

Zac Trolley

@zactrolley.com

These companies want kids to learn to outsource their thinking to them. Big Tech sees every key press and every question, and they use that to hook people in deeper. This is scifi villain stuff.