How Artificial Intelligence Supports Safer Learning

April 12, 2018

K–12 educators and administrators are tasked with building safe and effective digital learning environments, and this responsibility includes shielding students from inappropriate content online.Traditionally, this has involved monitoring and filtering web access by keeping lists of appropriate and inappropriate websites. But the Internet is constantly changing. The dynamic nature of the web makes traditional URL-based filtering the process of categorizing entire web pages by their domains —a largely ineffective method of controlling the kinds of content that students access.

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