As we continue working on the project, we had an additional member join the team. Dhruv who wrote the application for the Digital Well-Being Challenge joined the crew with his prompt engineering skills.
Luke and Axel also created the prototype of what they thought the codes should be. Finally, the discussion continued with whether a chatbot would be more appropriate or a template made better sense.
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On Friday, January 17, Jamie Nuñez from Common Sense Media visited the students to discuss the possibility of working with our students. Although there were a few other students who are not necessarily a part of the Innovator Project attended the meeting, I felt that the meeting encouraged the core team members to continue working on the project.
During our conversation, Jamie talked about the AI courses that Common Sense Media has produced and published for educators. He spoke of various opportunities that Common Sense Media offers for educators and students on AI literacy development. After the students left, Jaime and I talked about a few different ideas that I had for our students such as a hosting a panel discussion on AI. I have no idea what will come of our conversation, but I am looking forward to continuing our partnership with Common Sense Media. To begin, I put out a call to a small group of students who participated in both the MVHS Tech Internship Program and the Principal's Advisory Council. In addition, I reached out to Leonard Speiser, one of our parents and a co-lead mentor for our Robotics team who agreed to speak to the students in case they had any questions.
Initially, Axel Adin and Sean Murphy jumped on the opportunity, and I met with them on Friday, January 10th to form the team. After our initial meeting, I met with 3 additional students. They are: Myra Jain Claire Schwarzhoff Luke Stephenson On Wednesday, January 15, we hosted our first strategy meeting, and the students decided to create a website, work on creating a data set, and begin working on technical side of things. They also created a shared folder to house all the work such as a resource document with various useful data set (ex. California Department of Education's Data and Statistics page), a spreadsheet to track the project, a document to brainstorm the need, and a group text for rapid communication. What was interesting to me was that the students didn't want to use Slack even though they are very familiar with the platform as they use it frequently for other groups. They shared that they would prefer it to keep things simpler before moving to a platform like Slack. Below are a couple of pictures of them at the start of the meeting. The picture on the right features Axel, Sean, Luke, Claire and Myra (from left to right). We also discussed recruiting more team members. In the end, they decided that it was best to keep the team relatively small at the start and recruit others who can provide specific skills as the project grows. In Amsterdam, we were asked to created a pitch for our project. Because we had access to Gemini-powered Google Vids that created this video in minutes. As a school leader, I like to believe that I understand some of the challenges that school leaders face. Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, many educators have been grappling with the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI), in particular, Large Language Models (LLM) on schools. I have been thinking and speaking about it in various situations, and I began thinking about how I could help my fellow school leaders who were in search of useful, practical, and safe help in the ever changing AI landscape.
When I apply to be a part of the Google Innovator program, the application required me to share an idea for a possible future project. Naturally, I chose AI as a topic because I wanted to do things that will support my fellow school leaders. By the time I arrived at Amsterdam, I had a pretty good idea on the project I wanted to pursue. I wanted to create a tool that will allow any school leader to create a solid draft for their schools based on where their school is located. In July of 2024, I submitted the application to the Google Innovator Program (GIP). As part of the application, I shared an idea that I had that uses Large Language Models (LLM), commonly referred to as AI. I had been interested in creating a useful tool for school administrators, so I pitched the idea of creating a tool that would support my fellow school leaders.
In November of 2024, when I was in Amsterdam with my cohort, I pitched the idea of "AI Policy Buddy" or "AI Policy Creator," that can produce customizable AI policy documents based on the input from school leaders. In January 2025, I received an email from the GIP that I will receive a $1000 grant to work on my project. I created this page to document the process of developing my project. |
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