PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick\u2019s post-football career took him to the School District of Philadelphia on Wednesday, where he promoted his AI content creation app for schools.<\/p>\n
Students at at least three district schools are using Kaepernick’s subscription-based app called Lumi, which helps them create illustrated stories. They describe their characters to a chatbot and the app generates images to tell the story in comics form. Speaking at district headquarters, Kaepernick said AI can help students to develop their creativity.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we think about the future that we’re preparing them for, having AI-ready skills is part of that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Emily Thomas, a teacher at Farrell Elementary, has used the app in her sixth-grade English class. “The best thing about this program is,\u201d she said, \u201cit\u2019s showing students that AI isn\u2019t as smart as they think that it is.”<\/p>\n
She explained it can develop students\u2019 critical thinking skills, because they need to enter a precise description to tell the story they had in mind.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have to really go back and work on their wording, the details. They have to think things through,\u201d she said, adding it\u2019s a great way to show students that AI has limits.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat actually my students have discovered is how dumb it really is, that it\u2019s not doing anything unless you\u2019re telling it exactly what you want it to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick\u2019s post-football career took him to the School…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[278,1609,92060,227,69,71,70,1998,40959],"class_list":["post-209901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-colin-kaepernick","tag-education","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-school-district-of-philadelphia","tag-tony-watlington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}