Over the past few years, Artificial Intelligence has grown in popularity. Students are using AI to help them with their assignments and getting guidance when a teacher is not available. Teachers are using AI for lesson plans and getting ideas to keep students engaged in the classroom. However, not all students are using this tool in a positive manner.
Students across the world are using AI to influence their knowledge in various subjects. AI integration into many social media platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat makes AI more accessible and personalized to users.
“I sometimes use Artificial Intelligence to go over some notes and ask what I need to be looking for,” sophomore Gus Matiells said.
Students using AI positively to get guidance on assignments feel that it has had an impact on their education, which could lead to higher test scores and higher class averages.
“I have understood more since [AI] can break it down for me,” Sophomore Carson Hall said.
People are able to access these tools in order to enhance their education, get help when they need it, and educators use AI to plan.
“I use AI to help me lesson-plan… it will generate a really awesome lesson,” English teacher Lacee Lee-Hernandez said.
Educators are using AI to come up with fun ideas to keep students engaged in the classroom, and point students in the right direction. School Administrators use AI as well to quickly write emails and proofread them, additionally, to ask questions that you can’t typically look up.
“It’s a quick tool for proofreading whenever you’re just kind of jotting together something really quickly… I’m not gonna rely heavily on it, but it is a fun tool to ask quick questions,” Assistant Principal Matt Clayton said.
Students’ ability to use AI freely outside the classroom, creates uncertainties about whether students are using AI to support their education or to cheat on assignments. Students, teachers and administrators voiced their concerns regarding the use of AI on assignments, and some good practices to do when using AI for school assignments.
“The Algebra 1 teachers have had an issue with students using AI, so now [students] have to show their work. If [students] are using it to guide them on a problem then do a similar problem on their own, then that’s fair,” math teacher Stephanie Kirker said.
