Explain how educators might combat “cheating” so AI in the classroom can be beneficial.
There has obviously been a lot of concern on the part of educators regarding the use of AI in cheating both in and out the classroom. I believe that the number one way to mitigate this concern is to alter what that work looks like on the part of the student. If we could use a tool like ChatGPT to complete our homework by simply putting in a prompt and getting out an answer that we would consider good or passing, then that sort of homework assignment may need to be rethought. If cheating is something we are super concerned about.
We will be seeing an evolution of some of these tools, such as the example that Sal Khan gave in the video. Khanmigo is an AI tool that his company has developed that tries to simply not give answers to students but work more as a coach. I think an interesting way to approach looking at AI is by swapping out the word AI with tutor. Matt Miller is an EdTech writer and he wrote about this concept. If you look at what you're asking students to do and think about AI's use for accomplishing that task, if you were to swap out AI with the word tutor, would you except that help that a student would get in not consider it cheating? If so, maybe the use of AI is not necessarily cheating, but assisting that student in their learning.
Obviously, this is going to take a lot of discussion with our students around the ethics of using these tools, and when it is or is not appropriate. If students start to use these as a crutch or tool to accomplish tasks that they don't want to learn about themselves or accomplish themselves then this could be problematic.
I do believe the reality is that as these evolved, they are going to become common place in the workforce, and as always seems to be the case and education, part of our role is going to be having to teach students about these tools, and how they can fit into their work and life in a way that is beneficial but also done ethically.
What tech tools have you already used that have AI built into them?? Describe your experience thus far.
I have used tools like ChatGPT to create or generate responses to questions. I have asked it to summarize articles and create multiple choice questions as a result of what I fed it as a prompt. I have asked it to use standards that I would plug-in from the New York State website to create questions based on the standards. I have found that, although it is not always 100% correct and there are errors that it is a great starting point for me to be able to then edit what it's giving me to create something new in a much more timely fashion.
I have also used tools like Canva for image creation, and it is really neat what those can create based off of text prompts. I enjoy the creative nature of that where I can not rely on having to do image searches forever to get some thing a little bit closer to what I have in my mind as an image to use in a project.
There has obviously been a lot of concern on the part of educators regarding the use of AI in cheating both in and out the classroom. I believe that the number one way to mitigate this concern is to alter what that work looks like on the part of the student. If we could use a tool like ChatGPT to complete our homework by simply putting in a prompt and getting out an answer that we would consider good or passing, then that sort of homework assignment may need to be rethought. If cheating is something we are super concerned about.
We will be seeing an evolution of some of these tools, such as the example that Sal Khan gave in the video. Khanmigo is an AI tool that his company has developed that tries to simply not give answers to students but work more as a coach. I think an interesting way to approach looking at AI is by swapping out the word AI with tutor. Matt Miller is an EdTech writer and he wrote about this concept. If you look at what you're asking students to do and think about AI's use for accomplishing that task, if you were to swap out AI with the word tutor, would you except that help that a student would get in not consider it cheating? If so, maybe the use of AI is not necessarily cheating, but assisting that student in their learning.
Obviously, this is going to take a lot of discussion with our students around the ethics of using these tools, and when it is or is not appropriate. If students start to use these as a crutch or tool to accomplish tasks that they don't want to learn about themselves or accomplish themselves then this could be problematic.
I do believe the reality is that as these evolved, they are going to become common place in the workforce, and as always seems to be the case and education, part of our role is going to be having to teach students about these tools, and how they can fit into their work and life in a way that is beneficial but also done ethically.
What tech tools have you already used that have AI built into them?? Describe your experience thus far.
I have used tools like ChatGPT to create or generate responses to questions. I have asked it to summarize articles and create multiple choice questions as a result of what I fed it as a prompt. I have asked it to use standards that I would plug-in from the New York State website to create questions based on the standards. I have found that, although it is not always 100% correct and there are errors that it is a great starting point for me to be able to then edit what it's giving me to create something new in a much more timely fashion.
I have also used tools like Canva for image creation, and it is really neat what those can create based off of text prompts. I enjoy the creative nature of that where I can not rely on having to do image searches forever to get some thing a little bit closer to what I have in my mind as an image to use in a project.