LAUSD Launches AI Chatbot Ed to Provide Academic and Emotional Support to Students
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LAUSD unveiled Ed, an AI-powered chatbot to serve as a virtual student advisor and help students track academics, suggest assignments, and access resources.
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Ed is designed to give students personalized, immediate answers about their grades, test scores, attendance records, assignments, and more.
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Ed aims to streamline access to existing LAUSD tools and services into one platform so students don't need multiple logins. It provides practical info like bus schedules.
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Ed was built with 1,000 student testers and input over the past months. It offers age-appropriate voices, animations, and emotional support.
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LAUSD hopes Ed will help students recover from pandemic learning loss, though some question how personalized and useful the answers will be.