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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

Thank you. I think most parents would love for the majority of teachers to take this path.
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