Post by Middle States Association

Most AI policies in MENA schools were written fast, and written alone. A leadership team huddled, drafted a stance, and rolled it out. Reasonable, given the pace. But a policy written by a few people for everyone else rarely survives contact with a real classroom. Teachers improvise around it. Students find the gaps. The document sits in a folder while the actual decisions happen elsewhere, in WhatsApp groups, in individual classrooms, in the moment. The real work isn't writing the policy, it's building the shared process that lets a whole school community keep making good decisions about AI as it keeps changing. That's the question we're spending three days on this October in Cairo. More soon. Tara Waudby, Dr. Lina Lewis, Nabil Kaldas, Dr. Lorna A. Fairess, Michelle Haag, Morgan Mifflin, Anju Shivaram, Lauren Jones, Christian Talbot