{"id":8692,"date":"2025-04-14T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/?p=8692"},"modified":"2025-04-14T07:44:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T12:44:42","slug":"digital-learning-intern-exploring-the-impact-of-ai-on-education-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/es\/blog\/digital-learning-intern-exploring-the-impact-of-ai-on-education-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Learning Intern Exploring the Impact of AI on Education Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there is any remaining doubt that AI tools are becoming common in the student experience, consider that an Every Learner Everywhere\u00ae digital learning intern discovered us by asking ChatGPT for opportunities that would help her learn about education policy and research.<\/p>\n

Taniyah Taitano is a sophomore at Spelman College in Atlanta majoring in political science and pursuing a secondary teaching certification, and she is a student government leader. She first started to think about the importance of digital learning last year, as part of the service-based Bonner Scholar program.\u00a0 Taitano was assigned to work at an elementary school, and that prompted her to reconsider her earlier plans to become a lawyer.<\/p>\n

At the school she saw firsthand how education policy can shape day-to-day instruction. \u201cI had to ask myself,\u201d she says, \u201c\u2018Well, where do you want to make the most impact?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

One answer, she felt, was in conducting research to find ways to improve education in the United States. She believes the use of AI in digital learning can be part of the answer.<\/p>\n

Advancing AI and digital learning<\/h2>\n

Taitano understands not everyone working in education shares her opinion about the value of digital instruction and AI\u2019s role in enhancing it. In 2024 she had a summer fellowship as a social studies instructor for middle school students in Norfolk, Virginia \u2014 her hometown \u2014 in an enrichment program where she had been a student herself.<\/p>\n

During that fellowship, she was part of a conversation about AI in education, \u201cand I think I was really the only one in the room who advocated for AI usage,\u201d Taitano says.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy thesis is that AI isn\u2019t going anywhere, and technology is going to continue to advance. So, instead of shying away from it, we should have courses on digital learning and the appropriate ways to use AI.\u201d<\/p>\n