- Jan 2025
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The focus should not beto try and design GenAI out of the learning experience, ornecessarily to design it into the learning experience, but sim-ply to design instruction so that students actually learn. Thestrategies suggested above, and others, may be productivepaths to consider in this regard.
I found this to be an interesting idea. During my time in this master's degree, I have begun seeing the positive side of AI in learning. Before it all, I was one of those people that said "AI is bad and students are never going to learn because they will probably just cheat with AI." Yet learning to use it to help inside of lessons has shown me how it can be a positive source for students to use. Yet this section telling us not to necessarily include it or exclude it in teaching, but to simply to design instruction for our students to learn makes me reset my head a bit. I am reading this as "add AI if it helps to enhance the learning experience. Do not add it just because you can. Do not force it." It makes me think more when developing lessons that I will only want to use it if it comes to my mind when figuring out what to do.
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There are emerging technolo-gies designed to detect whether a piece of writing wasgenerated by AI. Incorporating these tools may helpeducators identify work created by GenAI. However,the accuracy of these programs, both with respect tofalse negatives (i.e., GenAI was used but not detected)and false positives (i.e., GanAI was not used, but thestudent is accused of using it) is wanting. Educatorswho wish to incorporate AI monitoring tools shouldstay informed on the capabilities and limitations ofthese technologies in order to use them responsiblyand effectively
I have heard that students are learning to get around AI detection tools. This is quite interesting to me considering AI is still so new overall. I wonder if learning to use AI detection tools is time consuming in order to use them correctly. Would this make it more of a chore for teachers to learn to use?
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I literally had a student this week decide to use ChatGPT on a fun social studies assignment. They are currently learning about the colonization of the United States and they needed to write a letter to King James requesting a charter to the new world. This student decided to use ChatGPT but made the mistake of asking it to "write him a charter" instead of "write a letter requesting to be granted a charter". His letter contained many words that I even myself struggled to pronounce at first, leading me to see that he had clearly used AI to write it. I like the use of AI for some projects, but it makes me sad when students choose to use it even on the more entertaining assignments that are not difficult to do. Yes, the technology helped him write it so he didn't have to, but it being used incorrectly hurt him.
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