{"id":90309,"date":"2025-08-17T20:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90309\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T20:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:33:11","slug":"billings-public-schools-welcomes-artificial-intelligence-into-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90309\/","title":{"rendered":"Billings Public Schools welcomes artificial intelligence into the classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BILLINGS \u2014 Billings Public Schools is instructing teachers on how to use artificial intelligence to plan lessons and receive feedback on students\u2019 progress.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers are learning how to use tools such as School AI, Magic School AI, Brisk Teaching and Diffit.<\/p>\n<p>Watch to see why teachers are using AI:<\/p>\n<p>Billings Public Schools welcomes artificial intelligence into the classroom<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Rainey, an instructional technology coach at the schools, is teaching educators how to incorporate these programs into their lessons. She hopes the services decrease teacher burnout and assist student learning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe load that&#8217;s on teachers to meet the needs of every student in their classroom is a lot,\u201d said Rainey.<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2025 <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvq.com\/news\/local-news\/file:\/\/\/Users\/175739\/Downloads\/RAND_RRA1108-16%20(1).pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">survey from RAND<\/a>, 53% of teachers nationwide reported burnout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou feel like a failure at times when you can&#8217;t meet everybody&#8217;s needs, whether they&#8217;re high, low, or in between,\u201d said Rainey.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755462791_565_\" alt=\"SARAH RAINEY PICTURE_1.1.1.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Vanessa Willardson<\/p>\n<p>        Sarah Rainey, Instructional Technology Coach at Billings Public Schools<\/p>\n<p>Some teachers have expressed concerns about bringing AI into the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve had several teachers who&#8217;ve taken my courses that are skeptical. You know, they come in with the idea that kids are going to cheat with AI. And the reality is kids are going to cheat even without AI,\u201d said Rainey.<\/p>\n<p>Carly Swain, a sixth-grade science teacher at Lewis and Clark Middle School, has embraced the use of AI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love that I can create any sort of interactive that I want for my students to practice, and I don&#8217;t have to spend hours coding it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Swain uses AI to plan lessons, grade assignments and brainstorm activities.<\/p>\n<p>The programs also help her customize learning tools for each student, based on how they absorb information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo these students who can&#8217;t just sit and focus, it becomes accessible and that&#8217;s what we want. So, I guess we have to determine what&#8217;s more important to us: doing it in a way that we&#8217;re comfortable or doing it the way it&#8217;s comfortable for them,\u201d Swain said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BILLINGS \u2014 Billings Public Schools is instructing teachers on how to use artificial intelligence to plan lessons and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-90309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}