aiVermont Collaborative Community Space

Our goal is to make the use of Artificial Intelligence in Vermont Schools Safe, Effective, and Ethical

Intent

One of the drawbacks of most professional learning opportunities is that they are presented as a “one and done.” There are usually no deliberate avenues for following up after an event, no sharing what you’ve learned and applied or connecting with workshop facilitators, other participants, or the larger cohort of educators sharing your interests. With this platform we hope to foster an online community to help crowdsource the work of making AI effective and safe for our students as well as for our own professional learning, teaching, and leadership practices, at the classroom, school system, and state and national policy levels.

Rules of Engagement

The following four practices are intended to keep this web resource functioning as a safe and productive space for meaningful, bold, and constructive conversations:

  1. Be respectful of others. 

  2. Be constructive in word and tone. Whatever your opinion, we are here to move things forward.

  3. Refrain from identifying anyone other than yourself in a post or reply.  

  4. Don’t leave repliers hanging. After you’ve posted, check back periodically to see if there is interest and to follow up, if appropriate– though sometimes responses take on a life of their own and you can watch your idea develop via the community.

Diverse opinions are not only welcome but desired; we do not intend to block anything based on points of view. However, site moderators reserve the right to combine identical topics, to simplify or retitle posts for clarity, or not to post a submission if it isn’t suitable or in accordance with guidelines.

Post Formatting

  1. Identify yourself by at least your first name and the district where you work. 

  2. Title your posts with something short and clear about what you are sharing or asking

  3. Identify sources/permissions in your post when sharing photos etc.

  4. Keep descriptions, questions, and narratives to 75 words or less. You can always follow up with more detail after replies and questions start coming in.

  5. Triple check that any links you share go where you want them to.