AI is one of the coolest technologies of our generation. It is amazing to think of the vastness and potential of AI technology. It is also scary to think that i could be used as tool to hurt others or even take advantage of people. I do think it is important to regulate the use of AI in certain industries, especially in the education arena! AI is simply a tool and should be viewed as such. Life has gotten so "easy" and sometimes I fear that students, who will then become members of the workforce, will not do the hard work that is sometimes necessary to function in that workforce. Not everything in life is instant and easy. This has become an Amazon 2 day shipping generation, where everything happens so fast. Saying that, I do not think we abandon the use of the technology. We can educate students to use AI in ways that will help them and not do all of the work for them.
Chat GPT and other AI technologies have infiltrated our lives and it is not going away. If every teacher were to come up with a set of guidelines on the appropriate uses of AI in the classroom, it could take away the stigma of using it to begin with. It could be beneficial, for example, if a student was writing an essay on WWI and asked Chat GPT to give them a timeline of the war, for the sake of sequencing. We then could show students the unacceptable ways of using AI, like writing an opinion essay that is supposed to express their own personal opinion. When AI takes the place of critical thinking and personal thoughts, then it really becomes just another way of cheating.
Chat GPT and other AI technologies have infiltrated our lives and it is not going away. If every teacher were to come up with a set of guidelines on the appropriate uses of AI in the classroom, it could take away the stigma of using it to begin with. It could be beneficial, for example, if a student was writing an essay on WWI and asked Chat GPT to give them a timeline of the war, for the sake of sequencing. We then could show students the unacceptable ways of using AI, like writing an opinion essay that is supposed to express their own personal opinion. When AI takes the place of critical thinking and personal thoughts, then it really becomes just another way of cheating.