Smart glasses prompt new Minnesota school rules

AI smart glasses are creating new challenges for Minnesota schools as educators try to limit cheating, recording and other classroom disruptions.

Jon Fila, founder of Inclusive AI Strategies, said the glasses can do many of the same things as a cell phone and can be harder for schools to monitor.

“Cheating, photographing a test, or ask AI for answers,” said Fila.

“Livestreaming classmates … potentially recording in bathrooms and locker rooms; those are some of the issues,” Fila added.

Fila said smart glasses can be tougher to manage than phones because some students wear prescription versions.

“A school might collect cell phones at the door, but how do you ask them to take off their prescription glasses?” said Fila.

In Worthington, Independent School District 518 is one of the first districts in Minnesota to specifically add smart glasses to its technolog...