Lake Worth ISD Superintendent Ena Meyers wants to better prepare her high school students for their futures.
To that end, those students now have the chance to learn how artificial intelligence works, including how to recognize when it gets something wrong.
The district is offering an optional, self-paced AI literacy course to Lake Worth High School students through a national initiative from the learning platform StudyFetch and technology company Nvidia. The district received 1,200 free licenses, enough for every high school student who wants to participate, Meyers said during a September board meeting.
“We don’t want our students to fall behind on this opportunity,” Meyers told Lake Worth ISD’s board of managers.
Students will need permission from a parent or guardian to participate.
District spokesperson Noah Ceballos did not immediately respond to questions about how many students have signed up to take the course and when it begins.
The program is part of a cost-free initiative offering 250,000 AI literacy licenses to high school students nationwide, according to material distributed by the district.
While lessons are designed to teach students what to do when artificial intelligence produces inaccurate information, students will also learn how to check claims against sources and how to use the technology responsibly.
The course covers the ins-and-outs of artificial intelligence, like prompting, research, machine learning, generative AI and AI agents, and the platform includes flash cards, audio, games, projects and an AI tutor.
The district began looking for a program because artificial intelligence is already part of students’ daily lives, Meyers said. While students shouldn’t be using AI to complete coursework, the tools aren’t going away anytime soon, she said.
“How do we use it responsibly?” Meyers said. “How do we make sure that we’re really fluent with the tools?”
School districts across the country are grappling with how to respond to rapidly expanding use of generative AI in classrooms. In neighboring Fort Worth ISD, officials recently entered into a partnership with OpenAI allowing teachers to use the AI company’s ChatGPT for Teachers product for lesson planning and other organizational tasks.
Lake Worth ISD’s approach is to give students the option to learn how the technology works, rather than simply allowing them to use it.
Meyers started taking the course to review what the district would be offering students, she said. The district also considered student privacy while reviewing the program, she said.
StudyFetch says its system complies with federal student privacy laws and data management guidelines. The company keeps each district’s data separate and does not sell or share student information or use it to train artificial intelligence, according to materials provided by the district.
Ceballos has not answered the Fort Worth Report’s request to review the agreement or data-processing documents for the program.
Tammy Thomas, elected Lake Worth ISD board president, supports teaching students about artificial intelligence. Still, she wants more information about how their data will be handled and would like to review the district’s contract and data privacy protections before that concern is addressed.
“When we’re talking about children’s data, we need to know exactly what we’re agreeing to,” Thomas told the Report.
Matthew Sgroi is an education reporter for the Fort Worth Report. Contact him at matthew.sgroi@fortworthreport.org or @matthewsgroi1.
Disclosure: Lake Worth ISD manager Tom Harris is an executive vice president at Hillwood, a financial supporter of the Fort Worth Report. News decisions are made independently of our board members and financial supporters. Read more about our editorial independence policy here.
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