{"id":217118,"date":"2026-02-24T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/hands-on-learning-meets-artificial-intelligence-at-cold-spring-school-in-montecito\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:05:11","slug":"hands-on-learning-meets-artificial-intelligence-at-cold-spring-school-in-montecito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/hands-on-learning-meets-artificial-intelligence-at-cold-spring-school-in-montecito\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands-On Learning Meets Artificial Intelligence at Cold Spring School in Montecito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keyt.com\/news\/2026\/02\/24\/hands-on-learning-meets-artificial-intelligence-at-cold-spring-school-in-montecito\/\">Hands-On Learning Meets Artificial Intelligence at Cold Spring School in Montecito<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keyt.com\/news\/2026\/02\/24\/hands-on-learning-meets-artificial-intelligence-at-cold-spring-school-in-montecito\/\">https:\/\/keyt.com\/news\/2026\/02\/24\/hands-on-learning-meets-artificial-intelligence-at-cold-spring-school-in-montecito\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-24 21:28:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"keyt.com\">keyt.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MONTECITO, Calif. &#8211; (KEYT) Scissors snip. Glue sticks roll across tables. Students lean over bright sheets of construction paper, building their latest classroom project.<\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence is part of the lesson, too.<\/p>\n<p>Inside Cold Spring School in Montecito, educators are embracing AI \u2014 but with clear guardrails. <\/p>\n<p>The goal isn\u2019t to replace teachers or fast-track assignments. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s to support instruction and deepen student thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers use secure tools like Khanmigo through Khan Academy to customize materials and guide projects. <\/p>\n<p>The technology helps create structure and prompts tailored to individual needs, while students remain in charge of the final work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really helps teachers custom-make materials to meet students where they are,\u201d said teacher Ryan Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Lessons stay rooted in California academic standards through project-based learning. <\/p>\n<p>In one assignment, students built detailed California maps. <\/p>\n<p>AI helped organize the framework, but every creative decision came from the students themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Principal Amy Alzina says the purpose is balance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to utilize AI to amplify the voice of teachers and students. It\u2019s not to replace them \u2014 it\u2019s to be a thought partner,\u201d Alzina said.<\/p>\n<p>From math concepts like surface area and ratios integrated into STEAM projects, to personalized learning supports, school leaders say they are preparing students for an AI-driven world \u2014 without letting technology do the thinking for them.<\/p>\n<p>Scissors in hand. Standards in focus. The future of learning taking shape in Montecito.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keyt.com\/news\/2026\/02\/24\/hands-on-learning-meets-artificial-intelligence-at-cold-spring-school-in-montecito\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hands-On Learning Meets Artificial Intelligence at Cold Spring School in Montecito https:\/\/keyt.com\/news\/2026\/02\/24\/hands-on-learning-meets-artificial-intelligence-at-cold-spring-school-in-montecito\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-24&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/keyt.b-cdn.net\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-24-at-6.24.10-PM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217120,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217118\/revisions\/217120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}