Chat GPT for Teachers - seriously

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully this will free the teachers from having to do lesson plans, create homework, grade homework, interact with parents, interact with students, or teach… so that they have more time to staff the metal detectors.

I took a course last year that required AI for data analysis. Each teacher input their criteria and then uploaded the data without PII.

The analysis consistently was the same conclusion I would have made. It just did it much faster. However, removing all of the PII took a solid day, which I am never going to get during the school year when I need to analyze data every day in order to plan instruction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully this will free the teachers from having to do lesson plans, create homework, grade homework, interact with parents, interact with students, or teach… so that they have more time to staff the metal detectors.

I took a course last year that required AI for data analysis. Each teacher input their criteria and then uploaded the data without PII.

The analysis consistently was the same conclusion I would have made. It just did it much faster. However, removing all of the PII took a solid day, which I am never going to get during the school year when I need to analyze data every day in order to plan instruction.

Could you be more specific what data are you talking about? Not attacking, just curious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully this will free the teachers from having to do lesson plans, create homework, grade homework, interact with parents, interact with students, or teach… so that they have more time to staff the metal detectors.

I took a course last year that required AI for data analysis. Each teacher input their criteria and then uploaded the data without PII.

The analysis consistently was the same conclusion I would have made. It just did it much faster. However, removing all of the PII took a solid day, which I am never going to get during the school year when I need to analyze data every day in order to plan instruction.

I often use AI for differentiation. I often need 5 or 6 variations of the same assignment in my classroom. It used to take me a few extra hours a week to produce these. Now AI helps. I still review and revise what AI produces, but it has cut hours off my planning that I can now put toward grading.

[Anonymous]

Ok how about time saved on planning is spent on teaching screen-free classrooms and grading handwritten work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gross. I refuse. The day they require me to use AI in my classroom is the day I quit. I don’t care if that makes me an old fogey (I’m 39), but this has no business in a classroom.

I'm a high school teacher. It's already here. My students are using it all the time: to get answers, to develop tests to study for, etc. It's one of the reasons I have gone back to paper for certain assignments.

The students are going to be using it whether or not we want them to. That's simple fact. If they aren't using it in our classrooms, they are using it on our assignments at home.

We can either adapt our teaching to accept this new reality or we can shut it out. If we adapt, we can teach students how to use it as an effective tool and we can explore its ethical uses. If we shut it out, the students are simply going to be using it anyway.

We see it all the time at the high school level now. I've taught myself how to use it and I now consider it a personal assistant. That also means I can knowledgeably talk about it with my students. These are conversations that have to happen, whether we want them to or not.

I am a high school teacher too. I'm sorry, I completely disagree with you. I've actually turned my classroom into a zero tech space this year. (Thankfully it's math, so it's not that difficult to do so--I bought 35 4-function calculators and that's what they get to use). My students are completely helpless and have zero ability to think critically by themselves. AI isn't going to help them break out of that.

But more than that, I refuse to use it as a professional. I will not allow AI to grade student work. If I expect them to do something by hand, they deserve to have it read and scored by hand. They deserve letters of rec written by me, not a robot. If I expect them to create presentations from scratch, I should be creating the rubrics and providing real commentary, not canned comments from a list.

I will absolutely judge any teacher who puts my child's work into AI to assign it a grade, and am mortified that we think that is in any way appropriate. That's not teaching.

Thank you. I am absolutely horrified by this announcement. People are not thinking critically about what it means to fully embrace AI in education and passively okay with more EdTech in the classroom. Are people too lazy or too dumb to understand the path this puts our children on?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok how about time saved on planning is spent on teaching screen-free classrooms and grading handwritten work?

That’s the whole point.

I use AI to cut down on my planning time. Most of my assignments are on paper, which take much longer to grade. AI frees up time so I can grade assignments and provide written feedback faster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok how about time saved on planning is spent on teaching screen-free classrooms and grading handwritten work?

That’s the whole point.

I use AI to cut down on my planning time. Most of my assignments are on paper, which take much longer to grade. AI frees up time so I can grade assignments and provide written feedback faster.

Sadly this is not how most will use and if read OpenAI write up on teacher chat, it’s all about putting children info and data in their platform- so there won’t be the stripping of personally identifiable info and all info on kids to be given away by FCPS without control.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok how about time saved on planning is spent on teaching screen-free classrooms and grading handwritten work?

That’s the whole point.

I use AI to cut down on my planning time. Most of my assignments are on paper, which take much longer to grade. AI frees up time so I can grade assignments and provide written feedback faster.

I would support that. But I doubt that we will end up with this scenario..

[Anonymous]

The chances OpenAI adequately tested this before selling it as EdTech is literally zero. What an embarrassment!

I wish there were some standard curriculums for more courses so teachers did not have to customize everything. I don’t think we are getting better results with this path. Not every course but we have gone too far in the other direction and turned teaching into a very stressful job.

[Anonymous]

Is my only option to opt out paying for private school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The chances OpenAI adequately tested this before selling it as EdTech is literally zero. What an embarrassment!

I wish there were some standard curriculums for more courses so teachers did not have to customize everything. I don’t think we are getting better results with this path. Not every course but we have gone too far in the other direction and turned teaching into a very stressful job.

FCPS *is* the test. It’s FCPS kids that will be the “whoops we shouldn’t have done that with their info” and “we CAN do this with their info” guinea pigs. And FCPS not only agrees but saying a good thing- so disheartening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully this will free the teachers from having to do lesson plans, create homework, grade homework, interact with parents, interact with students, or teach… so that they have more time to staff the metal detectors.

I took a course last year that required AI for data analysis. Each teacher input their criteria and then uploaded the data without PII.

The analysis consistently was the same conclusion I would have made. It just did it much faster. However, removing all of the PII took a solid day, which I am never going to get during the school year when I need to analyze data every day in order to plan instruction.

I often use AI for differentiation. I often need 5 or 6 variations of the same assignment in my classroom. It used to take me a few extra hours a week to produce these. Now AI helps. I still review and revise what AI produces, but it has cut hours off my planning that I can now put toward grading.

Using AI for differentiation is an appropriate teacher use of AI. Obviously AI has tons of advantages and is wonderful when it’s intentionally and appropriately used by someone who already is skilled and knows what they are doing. We have no clue what “teachers chat GPT” is. And these companies are not ethical and do not want any regulations. I don’t see why you need a special “teacher ChatGPT” to use AI to help with efficiency when it’s appropriate. I’m also concerned because some teachers won’t use AI appropriately. And AI is only helpful for when you already know what you’re doing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The chances OpenAI adequately tested this before selling it as EdTech is literally zero. What an embarrassment!

I wish there were some standard curriculums for more courses so teachers did not have to customize everything. I don’t think we are getting better results with this path. Not every course but we have gone too far in the other direction and turned teaching into a very stressful job.

FCPS *is* the test. It’s FCPS kids that will be the “whoops we shouldn’t have done that with their info” and “we CAN do this with their info” guinea pigs. And FCPS not only agrees but saying a good thing- so disheartening.

Agree. It’s horrific that the school board would agree to this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The chances OpenAI adequately tested this before selling it as EdTech is literally zero. What an embarrassment!

I wish there were some standard curriculums for more courses so teachers did not have to customize everything. I don’t think we are getting better results with this path. Not every course but we have gone too far in the other direction and turned teaching into a very stressful job.

Standard curriculums are such a great idea and would offer consistency and education and have better learning outcomes. Why doesn’t FCPS already do this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok how about time saved on planning is spent on teaching screen-free classrooms and grading handwritten work?

That’s the whole point.

I use AI to cut down on my planning time. Most of my assignments are on paper, which take much longer to grade. AI frees up time so I can grade assignments and provide written feedback faster.

Sadly this is not how most will use and if read OpenAI write up on teacher chat, it’s all about putting children info and data in their platform- so there won’t be the stripping of personally identifiable info and all info on kids to be given away by FCPS without control.

This is my concern too. Do you have any resources to learn about teacher chat GpT?