In North Carolina, School Districts First Look for Common AI Vocabulary

Around Wilmington, the rollout of MagicSchool AI is accompanied by explicit steering committees and frameworks — "0 to Infinity," CRAFT, EVERY — to tell students when AI is allowed.

The school districts in the Wilmington area are expanding their use of artificial intelligence this year, trying to make it a framed resource rather than a tool. The MagicSchool AI platform, designed for the educational community and designed to reduce the amount of preparation work — the generation of worksheets, lesson plans and even educational songs — is deployed in the counties of Columbus and Pender, while New Hanover and Brunswick are still evaluating it.

Brunswick County Schools has set up an IA Steering Committee of staff from different trades to review emerging tools, produce recommendations and decide on class-eligible uses. Students currently have access to the built-in AI functions in Canva and Adobe, but not Google Gemini, which staff already use; the district is studying the possibility of opening a supervised access to high school students via its secure Google Education environment.

The least visible part of the project is also the one put forward by managers: to give teachers and students a common language. For this purpose, the district relies on the "0 to Infinity" usage continuum of the Department of Public Education of North Carolina, which makes it possible to specify by duty whether the AI is authorized and to what extent, supplemented by the CRAFT framework for the formulation of petitions and the EVERY framework for ethical use.