I see myself using AI as an educator to plan and create content. I usually work with 1st graders. I’m not sure how I would have them use it except for research. I’m not sure I am afraid of them using it other than cheating or plagiarism. I’m just not sure how they can use it when they haven’t learned to read well, which also means they don’t know how to spell well.
I don’t want my students to use it when summarising content or analyzing data. I want them to have these skills. I am not sure what I will use it for other than ideas on how to start or if I get stuck. I also do not want my brain or my student’s brains to atrophy and become dependent on using this tool.
I do not want my students to use it as a place to start research on current events or ethical debates- especially related to AI. The less data AI has to train on the more bias its output is. If students start their research by using AI to guide them, then they are establishing a bias that they will find research to confirm.
The main concern to me is cheating. I am worried that students will have AI providing answers and taking away the effort and work that leads to learning and develops critical thinking. If I can find/create stuff using AI as a teacher, students can find answers in the same way.
Anything that has to do with video games. I would want to stay far away from that in a classroom setting. I worry that AI might provide ways for student to use it as a game.
I do not see myself using generative AI for writing lesson plans unless my admin what lessons plans in a specific way. Currently, I make google slides and I make them instead of using templates because it has me be an effective teacher. By creating the lesson plans, it is my way of visualizing how I plan to teach the lesson and where I will need to add scaffolds. Now if my admin what lessons plans that are not my google slides, then I could see myself using an AI program because that would ease up the clerical work. I probably will not use it to come up with responses to parents or write my class dojo stories because I would what my voice being shown. I also think at a kindergarten level, I wouldn’t use any writing piece in the classroom because they need the practice interacting with the language and writing themselves.
I already use AI in my classroom for more of the administrative side of my work. AI can create such amazing things that would take me so much longer to complete. The only thing I am hesitant about right now is creating things like slideshows for my classes. I think I am just more creative in that sense and like to create my slides, but I don’t want AI to do that for me. I have tried to use it in the past for creating slides and I just have never liked how it has turned out. As far as my students I am more afraid of them using it to complete their work for them. However, I teach 7th grade so it is usually painfully obvious if they have used AI because of the way it is written.
I don’t attend to grade student work with AI. Reading student work and offering feedback is, in my opinion, crucial for teachers. Additionally, I think it’s critical that students see writing. I would prefer that students write their papers instead of using AI. I think that students will utilize plagiarism, which would prevent them from learning how to write and summarize in their own words.
I won’t use it to produce any end products. Everything I have ever used generative AI to produce requires human oversight to correct or edit. I am not worried about my students using it. They will use it. The problem is they don’t even understand the output; and copy and paste it as their own working thinking teachers won’t know. I’d rather they didn’t use it for thinking work, so I don’t have to waste time reading work clearly not done by a student.
My worry is that AI will create a system where students become reliant upon it to complete tasks they should be able to do without. This could also happen to teachers using it as well. I like the 80/20 rule. The one thing I will not do is allow it to take over any task completely, as has been mentioned several times in the videos, one must remain the manager of the tool. I plan on always checking what is created, not only for content but also tone and style.
I won’t be using AI to grade my student’s work. My students write a lot of artists’ statements. I want them to use their critical thinking to write their statements, but I don’t mind if once they have a statement, they use AI to edit it.
I worry that my students will use AI to just get answers and avoid thinking critically. I think it’s better to teach students how to use AI appropriately, rather than pretend like it doesn’t exist.
I am worried that my students will use generative AI to cheat with the express purpose of not learning. Too many of them, especially freshmen, think they know better than anyone how to game the system and it hurts them. They don’t learn. They think life is Fortnite, I guess.
For my grade level (primary), I think I would use generative AI for creating content and using what I know to teach them about AI, but I would wait on having the students use it.
I am still skeptical of using it to generate things like answer keys for word problems. It seems to do a decent job of creating problems if I give specific enough parameters, but for solving them it still struggles enough that I would rather create the solutions myself. It is mostly providing correct answers, but I do find occasional math mistakes so I need to double check anyway. I also find that it will use approaches to solving that are well beyond the scope of my course, sometimes even with specific methods listed in the prompt. This leads to my fear that students will use it to get answers. Much like when they plug questions into google they tend to get answers that are far more complex than what we covered in the course and they have no real understanding of what they found.
I suppose I wouldn’t want students to seriously consider image generation outside of the novelty of the activity. I’m afraid they will constantly use it to generate answers instead of helping to explain certain concepts.
There isn’t anyway listed that I won’t use it. At this point, I won’t use it for grading, but I look forward to when I can. I worry my students will use it for content creation and lie about it. While there are many opportunities to use AI for it with my permission, I worry they will use it to claim they are better at coding than they are.
There are a lot of ways I would use AI in my profession. Personalized lesson creation, editing my writing or emails, this list goes on and on. I’m not sure yet how I won’t use it. I’m trying not to use image generator, because I feel that images should be made by people. I hate handing art over to computers. And I don’t want my students using AI to generate content, at least not yet. I want them to become skilled writers on their own first.
I will not use it for feedback. I would prefer that come directly from me - more personal. I am concerned that students will use AI to look up answers to questions.