Building connected communities with AI

I’m looking forward to releasing this in August, 2024.
It can be amazing to see how quickly AI can create things. But learning is not an efficiency game. Learning is often marked by struggle, failure and slow, engaged progress. So whenever I think about an AI tool, I’m focusing not just on speed, but the quality of outcomes. Yes, teachers are time-poor and so we want to save them time, but purposefully – so they can deliver the great outcomes they want.
This new pastoral AI assistant in schoolportal.ai is a great example of how we can get better outcomes more quickly with AI. Too often it takes a long time in our student admin systems to record a pastoral note. So, we tend to only record concerns, not celebrations, and we also only write about the outliers, not those students in the middle.
By making note creation quicker, we can help nudge busy staff to write a more diverse set of pastoral notes. But why stop there?
We often end up writing about a student, but don’t have the time to then also write to them, and also don’t include the carers in the conversation.
My hope is that with the help of AI, we can create a supportive learning community that helps each student be their best self.
This AI pastoral note assistant will craft the notice and also write an age-appropriate notice to the student and also a notice to their carers.
The teacher is still in control and should always review and edit the created text, and also decide whether to send the notice to the student and carers.