Tony DePrato
Chief Technology Officer
St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, Jackson/Ridgeland Mississippi
I have been a Director of Technology and Chief Technology Officer since 2009. My Principals' Training Center Admin Certification was completed in 2016. I have a Masters in Educational Technology from Pepperdine University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and International Studies from St. Thomas More College. I have more than a decade of experience leading enterprise-level IT projects, building vendor relationships, and developing robotics, STEAM, and computer science curricula. I am a data-driven decision-maker. I am very competent at designing new programs and designing a plan to track and measure those programs.
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ChatGPT and AI, 18+ and Not Ready Yet
ChatGPT is not a classroom tool. ChatGPT is a data-gathering platform designed to train and test a large language model AI developed by OpenAI.
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The school admissions process: are we doing it wrong?
Tony DePrato outlines a way to transform the school admissions process that moves beyond a forms-based system to deliver deeper engagement and healthy waitlists
It is Time to Stop Telling Children to “Google It”
The potential risk involved in telling students to 'Google it', and the impact that search engine bias can have on learning and understanding.
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