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The introduction of generative AI is creating a sea change in the ways people work, teach, and learn. Dyane is quick to note that these changes aren’t likely to go away.
MicrosoftEducationDocument ProcessingEnterprise Knowledge SearchAI and Machine LearningGenerative AI / LLM2023 MicrosoftMS#0078d4EducationUnited StatesDyane Smokorowski, Coordinator of Digital Literacy at Wichita Public Schools, believes that a major part of every educator’s job is breaking down would-be barriers between students and a great education. Using AI as an…Nov 17, 20235Document Processing|Enterprise Knowledge SearchMicrosoft Copilot0 2023-11-17 5
Wichita Public Schools
Document Processing · Enterprise Knowledge Search
Dyane Smokorowski, Coordinator of Digital Literacy at Wichita Public Schools, believes that a major part of every educator’s job is breaking down would-be barriers between students and a great education. Using AI as an educational aid, she and a growing number of educators at Wichita Public Schools are breaking down more of those barriers than ever before.
Solution
Wichita Public Schools does not shy away from change. The school district frequently embraces technologies that it deems beneficial to the education of its nearly 50,000 students and to the working lives of its 5,600 teachers and administrators. Because no two students learn in precisely the same way, Wichita Public Schools started looking into the many ways Microsoft Copilot with data protection can help educators bring a greater diversity of tailored learning experiences into the classroom. A small team of leaders within the school district began exploring the capabilities of Microsoft Copilot and GPT-4. Soon after they began to share their findings with the broader teaching and administrative staff. Because every member of the school district’s staff has their own Microsoft 365 A5 account, accessing Microsoft Copilot is as easy as opening their Microsoft Edge browser window. “Microsoft Copilot is a game changer,”
Data flow
Because no two students learn in precisely the same way, Wichita Public Schools started looking into the many ways Microsoft Copilot with data protection can help educators bring a greater diversity of tailored learning experiences into the classroom. They gain personalization on top of data privacy and access to Microsoft Copilot.”
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- Microsoft Copilot Provides generative AI assistance for drafting, summarization, analysis, and routine knowledge work.
Architecture clues
- A small team of leaders within the school district began exploring the capabilities of Microsoft Copilot and GPT-4.
- Because every member of the school district’s staff has their own Microsoft 365 A5 account, accessing Microsoft Copilot is as easy as opening their Microsoft Edge browser window.
- Because no two students learn in precisely the same way, Wichita Public Schools started looking into the many ways Microsoft Copilot with data protection can help educators bring a greater diversity of tailored learning experiences into the classroom.
- “Because Microsoft Copilot is accessed through Edge on each educator’s Surface device, educators simply access it using their Azure Entra ID, and Microsoft security protects it as well.
- “Microsoft Copilot introduces the ability to not only find information with links to content sources, but it also enables us as educators to make that information accessible at the reading level and in the language a student needs.”
- “Microsoft Copilot is a game changer,” says Olivia Sumner, a fourth through sixth grade teacher at Education Imagine Academy, a virtual school within Wichita Public Schools.
Evidence from the source
A small team of leaders within the school district began exploring the capabilities of Microsoft Copilot and GPT-4.
Because every member of the school district’s staff has their own Microsoft 365 A5 account, accessing Microsoft Copilot is as easy as opening their Microsoft Edge browser window.
The school district frequently embraces technologies that it deems beneficial to the education of its nearly 50,000 students and to the working lives of its 5,600 teachers and administrators.
Wichita Public Schools does not shy away from change.
“Microsoft Copilot introduces the ability to not only find information with links to content sources, but it also enables us as educators to make that information accessible at the reading level and in the language a student needs.”
“Microsoft Copilot is a game changer,” says Olivia Sumner, a fourth through sixth grade teacher at Education Imagine Academy, a virtual school within Wichita Public Schools.
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Customer reference value52/100
- Problem clarity20/20Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
- Implementation depth20/25Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
- Outcome specificity12/20Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
- Quantified impact0/250 metrics describe measurable impact.
- Deployment scale0/10Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence87%
- Source authority20/25The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
- Claim traceability21/2510 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
- Direct evidence20/206 direct source quotes retained.
- Date provenance10/10The publication date comes from the source page or publisher.
- Source transparency8/101 source reference document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
- Implementation specificity8/10Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
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- https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/1701081907918320989-wichita-public-schools-azure-k12-edu-en-united-statesMicrosoftFirst-party
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