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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

You are welcome to judge me and you are welcome to disagree. But you judged me based on your own assumptions of how I use AI, not on how I actually use AI. That comes from a place of fear, I suspect, and not from an understanding of how AI can effectively be used.

I don't use AI to grade student work. I use it to craft rubrics based on input I give it, and then I craft the rubric until it is correct. Every single assignment is still scored by hand and no student work is put into AI.

I use AI to help improve previous lessons, putting in last year's lessons (that I created by hand) and then inputing requested changes based on my current students' needs. I then modify the results as needed.

My letters of recommendation are written by me. No AI at all.

So you made assumptions about my AI usage that don't remotely align to how I actually use it. I notice that seems to be a trend. It's new, and therefore people are afraid of the implications. I understand that.

But know that your students are using it outside of class. You can control your environment as much as you want to, but they are still using it. I'm a realist. I'm going to help my students through this new reality. I'm not going to shield them from it.

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FCPS is encouraging elementary teachers to use AI to grade student work. It's included in benchmark now.  That's what I was referring to.

When I spoke up that writing letters of rec should count as an IPR for those of us with more than 10 or 20 to write, I was told by both my school administrator and someone at the pyramid level to use chatgpt. That's also what I'm referring to.

It's not fear. It's reality. And it's gross.[/quote]

It is reality, and we all have to deal with it. Make it less “gross” by using it responsibly. Teach others the same.

Tell your admin you won’t use AI on your letters of recommendation. Just fight back, saying that isn’t a good use for it. My admin discouraged its use.

[b]And how is AI grading student work? Is it multiple choice? I’m not going to lose much sleep. [/b][/quote]

It's grading their essays. It's providing commentary, suggestions, assigning a letter grade.  Teachers just have to click "accept grade" or they can modify it before accepting.  My child has written numerous 5 paragraph essays in 6th grade and they only feedback he's gotten has been AI generated commentary.  The classroom teacher confirmed it at parent conferences--how so much time was saved since he doesn't have to grade essays anymore, just answer student questions about the feedback AI generated.[/quote]

To clarify, this is built in benchmark functionality that elementary school teachers are being encouraged to use.[/quote]

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