AI will be used by students. There is no doubt about this! It is already being used by our students every day. Relying on TurnItIn.com to catch students submitting AI generated text is silly, because I have zero confidence it could work. It's algorithms are unproven and unfounded. I have put my own text into that engine and had frighteningly high probabilities it was written by and AI told back to me. Which led to me to wonder...
With this in mind, in the coming years, our challenge will be how to teach students to use these tools. Being fluent in using AI engines will set up critical 21st century skills. I have spoken with architects excited about using AI, software engineers who look forward to not writing the boring base-code again and again, and technical writers who use AI to write proposals at a distinct level of operation. Learning how to use these tools is a skill that will become marketable in the coming years. Learning how to use them without claiming their generations whole-sale is also key.
With this in mind, in the coming years, our challenge will be how to teach students to use these tools. Being fluent in using AI engines will set up critical 21st century skills. I have spoken with architects excited about using AI, software engineers who look forward to not writing the boring base-code again and again, and technical writers who use AI to write proposals at a distinct level of operation. Learning how to use these tools is a skill that will become marketable in the coming years. Learning how to use them without claiming their generations whole-sale is also key.