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Generative AI is a difficult tool for students and teachers to navigate in an educational setting. Although it can be useful, it is challenging to monitor how students utilize it. This is often why teachers and professors forbid the use of AI. However, suppose instructors take their time to explain, practice, and create content using AI. In that case, students can develop a more profound understanding of how to strengthen their work without committing academic dishonesty.
While reflecting on my use of AI, I remember times when it was helpful to me, but also times when I could have chosen a better option. ChatGPT specifically, has been helpful in generating prompt ideas and subheaders for my work. However, when asking AI tools for assistance in solving difficult questions, it has often provided me with incorrect information. In any of these situations, I still felt I was nearing academic dishonesty. Due to the lack of education I had received surrounding AI tools, I always felt nervous about using any AI-generated assistance with my schooling or work when not instructed to do so.
After learning more about how we can properly use AI in an educational setting, I can identify how it will be useful as a teacher and potentially to my students. I hope to properly incorporate lessons on the use of AI when I begin teaching so that my students can understand it, use it, and not be worried about committing academic dishonesty or collecting incorrect information.
Check out this short video by ILLC Science on a few rules to follow while using AI here:
