NORTH LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT
Q & As and study guides. This, Randy adds, fosters critical thinking: pupils learn to validate AI outputs against sources, synthesising complex information much like future employers demand.
“ We’ re trying to teach our students to be responsible for it,” he adds.“ Don’ t let it think for you. Let it help you with it if you need it to be. That’ s one reason we gave Notebook LLM – so they can compile all their own research, build their own database and pull from there. It’ s a 21st century resource that is not going to go away and we would be doing our students a disservice if we didn’ t teach them how to use it responsibly.”
Modernising infrastructure with strategic partners Underpinning tech advances across NLRSD is a sweeping IT modernisation that NLRSD is partnering closely with specialist networking firm Next Step Innovation to carry out. This E-Rate-funded project, starting this summer, will replace legacy switches and access points across NLRSD’ s 15 campuses. As a networking specialist for schools, Next Step won the bid and now provides NLRSD with engineering backup, design expertise and weekly consultations to NLRSD’ s IT team.
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