Reed Union schools to develop age-based framework for screens, AI
Four months after approving the district’s first artificial intelligence policy, Reed Union School District board members used their first look at a districtwide technology plan to ask whether students from preschool through eighth grade spend too long on screens.
Jonathan Weller, the district’s director of information systems, educational technology and innovation, told the board Oct. 13 that a framework setting age-appropriate limits on devices and AI will come to the board in February.
Board members’ concerns surfaced minutes earlier, during an update on curriculum pilots, when board member Mike Ghaffary said classrooms should use real textbooks and paper and pencil whenever possible.
“I think the whole world has jumped the shark on overreliance on technology,” Ghaffary said.
He said it would be “a bit hypocritical” for parents, teachers and the board to warn students against device addiction outside school, then require the devices in class and at night to turn in homework.
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