Why has MCPS blocked OpenAI for students but not Grammarly? They both have generative AI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:English teachers are being replaced by chargpt

Everyone has access to it and yet, here you are, misspelling it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:English teachers are being replaced by chargpt

Everyone has access to it and yet, here you are, misspelling it.

FFS, PP. Listen to yourself. Look at an actual keyboard. The "r" key is literally just slightly to the left of the "t" key. Look at "QWERTY". Notice how close the R is to the T? Simple mistake. Some of us are human, and not snarky hatred-filled meatsacks like you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a discussion that unfortunately has HUGE nuance in schools. I have taught 6-12.

Currently, sixth grade. My students are learning how to structure paragraphs, organize arguments, and what rhetorical devices are. These kids should not be using any generative AI -- as I tell them, "Until you can tell me WHY the AI answer is better than what you can write, you can't use it." They don't know what words mean and don't think to check to make sure the answer is correct. Until they know this, AI isn't a tool they should use for their own writing.

Are you giving that advice to the AI committee? Or providing helpful ideas on how to integrate it into lessons to help kids learn exactly this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:English teachers are being replaced by chargpt

Everyone has access to it and yet, here you are, misspelling it.

FFS, PP. Listen to yourself. Look at an actual keyboard. The "r" key is literally just slightly to the left of the "t" key. Look at "QWERTY". Notice how close the R is to the T? Simple mistake. Some of us are human, and not snarky hatred-filled meatsacks like you.

Try spellchecking before you post. You know… like use a tool!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:English teachers are being replaced by chargpt

Everyone has access to it and yet, here you are, misspelling it.

FFS, PP. Listen to yourself. Look at an actual keyboard. The "r" key is literally just slightly to the left of the "t" key. Look at "QWERTY". Notice how close the R is to the T? Simple mistake. Some of us are human, and not snarky hatred-filled meatsacks like you.

Try spellchecking before you post. You know… like use a tool!

... like Grammarly. Well played, well played.

[Anonymous]

I teach language and writing. My students in my next course will handwrite most of what they do in the classroom, and if I detect AI usage on anything they give me, I will simply stop reading and not mark it. No zero, just no feedback and no credit; the assignment will be dropped and erased. I'm not paid to critique a bot, and the students who deserve my time are the students who did their work themselves.

For those who think this is a disservice to students' future professional lives, don't worry: there are plenty of people in other fields who will teach them how to generate mountains of required anodyne garbage with AI. The students will graduate fully competent in kidding themselves that they can write. It's my job to try to install a little bit of actual skill behind the scenes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only way to find out if kids can write an essay is to give them an old school blue book and have them write by hand in class.

My kid’s Catholic school does this for any writing. They don’t type the assignment until they sit in class and write it out. The teacher grades it and then they sometimes type it.

[Anonymous]

https://slejournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40561-024-00316-7

Habitual dependence on AI for decision-making may reduce individuals’ motivation to engage in independent thinking and analysis, potentially leading to a weakening of essential cognitive abilities