FTPO 5.5 School AI with Tucker Austin

SchoolAI's Browser Extension: AI Support in Every Tab | For the Purpose of… with Tucker Austin Katherine Fredrickson and Keith Tramper sit down with Tucker Austin, Senior Director of Product and Content Marketing at SchoolAI, for a live walkthrough of the SchoolAI browser extension. Using a 10th-grade unit on The Great Gatsby, Tucker shows how teachers can build a standards-aligned rubric, turn a web page into a student worksheet, create a Space that coaches students through writing a thesis without giving them the answers, and give rubric-based feedback directly in Google Docs. The conversation also covers student data privacy, Career and Technical Education (CTE) uses, accessibility and translation features for English Language Learners (ELLs), and how SchoolAI alerts teachers and designated staff when a student shares something concerning. Throughout, the focus stays on keeping the teacher as the human in the loop. Chapters 0:00 Welcome and introductions 0:46 Tucker's path to SchoolAI 2:56 SchoolAI's Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Tier III validation and privacy certifications 4:56 Overview of the browser extension 7:00 Building a standards-aligned rubric 11:11 Turning a web page into a student worksheet 13:34 Creating a Space to coach thesis writing 17:07 Mission Control: monitoring class progress 18:17 Summary feedback and inline comments in Google Docs 21:55 Revision history and paste detection 24:40 Student data privacy and zero data retention 27:47 Using SchoolAI in CTE 29:37 Safety alerts and the human in the loop 33:58 Accessibility, speech and language support, and ELL features 36:02 Recap and golden nuggets 38:48 Credits Resources Learn about the Michigan Student Data Privacy Alliance:https://remc.org/educator-resources/s... Visit the SchoolAI Trust Center: https://schoolai.com/trust Explore upcoming AI Collective sessions, including Promptober on October 20: aimed.tech/AIcollective Earn State Continuing Education Clock Hours (SCECHs) Podcast PDx participants who attended live are already marked for SCECHs. If you're watching after the fact, visit the Podcast PDx website and respond to the reflection question. Questions? Email edtech@kentisd.org. This podcast is produced by Keith Tramper, Sarah Wood, and Katherine Fredrickson as a service for K-12 educators. This episode was edited by Keith Tramper. Theme music is "Neon Nights" by Scott Holmes, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.