OCDSB students want a say in board’s new AI policy [Video]

The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board laid out its digital strategy in a meeting earlier this month, and students say they want to be a part of refining the way it deals with artificial intelligence.

The “equitable access to technology plan” was presented at a meeting of the national capital’s largest English-language school board on Oct. 8.

The board has plans to increase the accessibility of technology by putting a Chromebook in the hands of every student in Grade 7 and up. 

It also plans to establish guidelines for how artificial intelligence can be used as a learning tool.

According to Sandy Owens, OCDSB’s general manager of business and learning technologies, the framework will support students in using critical thinking when it comes to AI tools.

It also may take some time to establish because it’s such new technology.

“This is brand-new learning for a lot of the people in our …