Jessica Sears

Part 3 - Digital Citizenship & Ethics

Part III

  • March 11, 2023 at 9:45 AM
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So I think what these articles posed is an interesting concept overall - the fact that this AI technology isn't going anywhere, so as educators, it's up to us to figure out how to evolve both our teaching and expectations of this generation. I think especially at the secondary level, it's so important to let the students know that you know this technology exists and that yes, they may at points use it for their learning, but how in the long term, how will that help them. As one of the articles mentioned, the single most important thing that teachers can do is create meaningful relationships with our students, which is something that hasn't changed. I think through teachers being open and honest with their students, the students will realize that as teachers we know this technology exists and that we can use it in a helpful way to aide our learning and not in a way that is unethical or plagiarism. 
From the Turnitin article, I liked strategy. 9 "Assess the process, not only the product: Collect outlines and drafts". I think this is so important because in the writing process, there are so many things happening for the student and in what they are learning. This is all evident in the different products that are created along the way - notes, graphic organizers, first drafts, final drafts, etc. The final copy should be evidence of all of these previous steps put together, if this isn't the case then it might be evidence that the student used AI to generate a response that wasn't theirs.