Strategy 5 is often used in my middle school science classroom. Most of our labs are hands-on/interactive provoking students to use their personal experiences to reflect on our content. With this being our source of exploration, the use of GenAI is not impacting their overall learning on our science labs. This strategy welcomes group work and individual time as students navigate lab concepts. This however, requires a lot of scaffolding from the teacher as we need to eliminate as many human errors as possible. In some cases, we do use GenAI resources to bring in real-world scenarios that otherwise could not be conducted in the classroom. Labster and phET simulations are often integrated into our class content but they too have their limitations. Any other recommendations that can be utilized in science to enhance the learning expereince?

I feel there are a lot of background details that go into implementing tools within our classrooms. While GenAI can be a supportive tool, I feel that many educators and students alike, lack the training to use these resources. It's true that educators need to be flexible in our teaching strategies but we also need to be confident in the resource, trusting that it values the privacy of our students and supports them in the learning process rather than handing students the answers. It can be tricky to navigate students use of technology even if I am in the room with them.

One of the biggest issues my colleagues and I have faced, is that students are gaining access to our curriculum quizzes before educators provide the assessment. If students are able to catch wind of a test question, and type it into an AI account, some of our tests pop up with the displayed answers. While we have the ability to alter the tests, it becomes difficult when it is a unit assessment. Depending on what source educators and students use, there may be fluidity in who gains access to content.