Majority of US K-12 Teachers Now Using AI for Lesson Planning, Grading (apnews.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/25/1648236/majority-of-us-k-12-teachers-now-using-ai-for-lesson-planning-grading
- Source link: https://apnews.com/article/ai-chatgpt-teacher-chatbot-b1630bc549e9044d1e3bbcc060fb422c
About 8 in 10 teachers using AI tools report time savings on creating worksheets, assessments, quizzes and administrative work. About 6 in 10 said AI improves their work quality when modifying student materials or providing feedback. However, approximately half of teachers worry student AI use will diminish teens' critical thinking abilities and independent problem-solving persistence.
[1] https://apnews.com/article/ai-chatgpt-teacher-chatbot-b1630bc549e9044d1e3bbcc060fb422c
stupid is as stupid teaches dumb kids to be dim (Score:2)
This is a cycle, and a vicious one. As an illustration: In past decades, there has been a steady degradation among the general public in their proficiency in spelling, punctuation, and grammar. In a feedback loop, this has caused proficiency in spelling, punctuation, and grammar to decline ever faster. And now we currently have ENGLISH TEACHERS who openly--proudly!--state that they don't care about spelling, punctuation, and grammar. One can only imagine what their students will say about it.
And now, wi
A truly revolutionary approach to education (Score:2)
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It's okay: (Score:2)
Majority of US K-12 Students Now Using AI for Homework, Tests
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A Friend is a K-12 Teacher... (Score:3)
Technically he teaches 5/6. The way he describes it, the latest batch of teachers are using AI to write their lesson plans and tests; the students are (if they can get away with it) using AI to finish assignments and tests; and AI are grading it all. Beyond the obviously all important "free (tax payer) childcare" what is even the point!?
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While the kids using AI to do their work for them is an obvious problem, I don't think there is anything wrong with using AI to help with lesson planning and testing as long as the teacher actually understands what they are teaching and checks that the AI isn't hallucinating when it produces the material. Grading could also be a net positive, again as long as the teacher understands and reviews what the AI does.
Giving more teachers time to actually teach is a good thing.
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Why would you presume the AI isn't biased?
There have been NUMEROUS documented instances of AI being biased, for one reason or another.
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> While the kids using AI to do their work for them is an obvious problem, I don't think there is anything wrong with using AI to help with lesson planning and testing as long as the teacher actually understands what they are teaching and checks that the AI isn't hallucinating when it produces the material. Grading could also be a net positive, again as long as the teacher understands and reviews what the AI does.
> Giving more teachers time to actually teach is a good thing.
I don't think there is anything wrong with using a hydraulic exoskeleton to deadlift 24,000lbs and run 200 miles a day, as long as you actually keep up your muscle tone and maintain glucose/caloric stores and usage and make sure your bone density isn't rapidly dropping from outsourcing the biological work of being alive.
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> Technically he teaches 5/6. The way he describes it, the latest batch of teachers are using AI to write their lesson plans and tests; the students are (if they can get away with it) using AI to finish assignments and tests; and AI are grading it all. Beyond the obviously all important "free (tax payer) childcare" what is even the point!?
The point could be better training for the AIs, but only if the teachers are at some point checking that the hallucinated AI work the kids are turning is is being graded fairly by the AIs doing the grading and it's somehow getting fed back to the AIs that produced the work. If some few students use the opportunity to teach the AI producing the work how to better fool the AI grading the work into assuming its learned something, it's a net win for the AI companies. At some point, they'll be able to fully simu
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How do you use AI on a test? I get the homework but as I've pointed out before studies indicate homework isn't terribly useful and often detrimental. But when you're sitting in the classroom with your teacher going to let you pop up chat GTP?
But sure let's keep undermining the importance of education. Why should anyone who isn't wealthy have access to education? And why should anyone who isn't wealthy have education for any other purpose than to get a job that generates shareholder value?
If it's one
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> what is even the point!?
Keeping up appearances. We are probably going for a rather extreme class divide between those that can think and solve problems and the 85% or so of dumb masses that cannot do anything.
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> what is even the point
People said the same thing each time a new technology disrupted education - the typewriter (what will it do to the teaching of handwriting!), the spell-checker (what will it do to the teaching of spelling!), Wikipedia (what will it do the use of the library!) - and so on and so on.
The AI genie is out of the bottle, and schools and teachers need to adapt their practices and curricula so it meets today's AI reality.