US EditionBig Tech is paying millions to train teachers on AI, in a push to bring chatbots into classrooms
Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic invest millions to train 400,000 U.S. teachers in AI literacy over five years, aiming to prepare educators for AI integration in classrooms.
- Recently, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic provided millions for AI training to the American Federation of Teachers, with OpenAI contributing $8 million in funding and Anthropic $500,000.
- Facing rapid AI adoption, teachers unions forged a partnership to help the nation's 4 million teachers stay relevant, with educators leading trainings and unions owning the intellectual property.
- AFT is building an AI training hub in New York City offering virtual and in-person workshops and aims to open at least two more hubs while training 4,000,000 teachers over five years.
- At the San Antonio AFT workshop, about 50 educators used ChatGPT, Gemini, and CoPilot, raising concerns such as 'Are we going to be replaced with AI?'
- The federal government has urged private funding and recently created an AI Education Task Force while studies find rapid AI use in schools outpaces training and guidance, despite industry resources for scaling AI literacy.
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Why OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic are funding millions in teacher training: 'AI, like it or not, is part of our world'
On a scorching hot Saturday in San Antonio, dozens of teachers traded a day off for a glimpse of the future. The topic of the day’s workshop: enhancing instruction with artificial intelligence. After marveling as AI graded classwork instantly and turned lesson plans into podcasts or online storybooks, one high school English teacher raised a concern that was on the minds of many: “Are we going to be replaced with AI?” That remains to be seen. Bu…
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Big Tech is paying millions to train teachers on AI, in a push to bring chatbots into classrooms
The country’s largest teachers unions are teaming up with tech companies like Microsoft and OpenAI to help educators build literacy in artificial intelligence.
As often happens, the "revolution" , if we want to call it, comes from the United States and, more precisely, from an afosa classroom of San Antonio, where dozens of teachers sacrificed a resting Saturday to return to the counters. Theme of the workshop: "How to integrate artificial intelligence into teaching." After seeing the "IA" correct tasks in a few seconds and transform lessons into podcasts or digital books, more than one teacher has bee…
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