Abby Sourwine

Journalist at Center for Digital Education (CDE)

journalist, currently: @centerdigitaled // formerly: @coastnewsgroup @dailyastorian // typically: eating ice cream & reading mystery novels

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Articles

Chief AI Officer: Higher Ed’s New Leadership Role

1 week ago | govtech.com | Abby Sourwine

According to early adopters, the role is still being defined in higher education, taking cues from CAIO duties in industry and government. CAIOs in education align AI innovation with research, teaching, administration and public service, managing ethical concerns, faculty apprehension and the often slow pace of academic governance. As the education sector continues to adapt to artificial intelligence, a new role is quietly emerging: the chief AI officer (CAIO).
Pearl River School District Approaches AI With Intention

1 week ago | govtech.com | Abby Sourwine

Now, five years into the role and applying the instincts of a veteran educator, she has helped the New York school district not just react to AI but proactively incorporate it into everyday teaching. “When we first learned about ChatGPT — I’ve been in education over 20 years, I knew it was going to be significant,” she said.
EDUCAUSE Panel Highlights Practical Uses for AI in Higher Ed

1 month ago | govtech.com | Abby Sourwine

Many higher education leaders have expressed hope about the potential of artificial intelligence but uncertainty about where to implement it safely and effectively.
Study Shows Equity Gap in Classroom Tech for Students With Disabilities

1 month ago | govtech.com | Abby Sourwine

Despite years of advocacy and mandates, many disabled college students report that classroom technology fails to accommodate their needs, according to a new report from the National Disability Center for Student Success. The report draws on surveys and interviews conducted last year and reveals that while assistive technologies are widely available at the institutional level, many classroom-specific tools can still be inaccessible.
Margaret Brisbane

2 months ago | govtech.com | Abby Sourwine

Brisbane, who originally studied international marketing, discovered her love for technology while working in telecommunications. Over time, she realized the power of technology to transform lives and improve public services. Now, as Miami-Dade County’s chief information officer — the first woman to hold the role — she leads a team of more than 900 IT professionals. Her leadership is driven by a commitment to digital inclusivity and innovation.
Penn State's 'Cheat-a-Thon' Pinpoints Strengths, Weaknesses of AI

2 months ago | govtech.com | Abby Sourwine

At Penn State University, the Center for Socially Responsible AI aimed to answer some of these questions with a contest. The university's first-ever "Cheat-a-thon" asked faculty members to submit questions and assignments that would be difficult for students to answer with AI. It's a problem instructors at Penn State were already curious about. Ihab Ragai, a professor of engineering and winner of the contest, had been experimenting with how to stump AI.
San Diego Area Colleges Band Together on AI

2 months ago | insider.govtech.com | Abby Sourwine

The University of California at San Diego (UCSD) used its supercomputing center and Meta's large language model, Llama, to create a campuswide secure chatbot for students called TritonGPT. At San Diego State University (SDSU), a robust survey for students on their use and opinions of artificial intelligence gathered more than 7,000 responses in 2023 and more than 10,000 in 2024.
ASU+GSV 2025: K-12 Leaders Call for Rethinking Procurement

2 months ago | govtech.com | Abby Sourwine

“I don't want to see a superintendent going out for a steak dinner and then coming away with a $2 million deal anymore,” Fallon, executive director of the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA), said. “It's more than that. This impacts real kids. It impacts our communities, and I want to make sure that we are doing it right by all of them.” Patrick Gittisriboongul, Julia Fallon and Sophia Mendoza remember a time when ed-tech procurement was like the wild west.
ASU+GSV 2025: Amid Cuts, Education Research Pushes for Scalable Solutions

2 months ago | govtech.com | Abby Sourwine

In the wake of major cuts to federal education research infrastructure, America's systems for studying educational tools and practices and bringing them up to scale face an uncertain future, panelists at the ASU+GSV AI Show said earlier this month. In February, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) lost about 90 percent of its staff and $900 million in active contracts.
ASU+GSV 2025: Preparing Students for an AI-Driven Workforce

2 months ago | govtech.com | Abby Sourwine

He instantly saw the academic integrity challenges that would arise, and ultimately the work that teachers like him would have to do to redesign curriculum in response. In the time since, Watson has studied and written about the ways AI is changing our relationship to information, work and problem-solving. At the ASU+GSV AI Show April 6, he presented strategies to embrace those changes and accept AI as an essential component of teaching and learning today.