" I mean it is a good thing for students to disconnect from their addiction anyway . "
Recently, I wrote abouthow different school is today compared with even 10 years ago, and the thing that stuck out most to me was the difference in technology. So Idecided to askteachers and professors in theBuzzFeed Communityhow student AI use is changing their classrooms. Here are some of their most interesting stories:
1.“I teach media studies at the college level. In a nutshell, it’s just absolutely baffling the level of laziness that AI use shows. I’ve assignedvideo gamesfor my students to play, and write up notes on and a response to, and received responses generated by AI about animaginaryvideo game that does not exist, based on the game’s name.”
" But the funniest experience I ’ve had was my first : In an presentation course , after teach the concept of remedy , a specific medium studies concept , I need a fairly simple-minded interrogative sentence in a quiz : ' Give an model of remediation . '
" The answer I mystify from a bookman using AI was aboutremoving chemicals from soilvia the process of remediation — nothing to do with the media studies concept . I stared at it for about a minute and a one-half just endeavor to process what I was read .
" I guess I learn something about land management … thanks , ChatGPT ? "
— visionarywitch14
2.“AI has already taken away the ability to see what the students are actually capable of because they won’t put in real effort. They’re putting in more effort to find ways to do as little as possible than if they just put the effort into writing. This is only going to get worse. It amazes me that students don’t know what a comma is in middle school.”
3.“Spanish teacher here. With the amount of cheating from using translators and essay writers only growing exponentially, I have all but gotten rid of technology in my class. Project? Handwritten, all work done in class. Quiz? On paper. Interpretive test? All the Chromebooks go on the counter, where students can’t access them.”
4.“Creative writing and publishing student here. Besides the fact that my professors will give you an automatic zero on assignments if you write them with AI, it’s highly unethical because nothing it spits out is an original idea.”
— daynam4b6e28fa3
5.“In my state, certain documents are required to be read during the first year of college, and then students must complete an assignment about the documents. It’s been the law for a couple of years now. Students who use AI to do the assignments are breaking the law, which can jeopardize whether they get their college degree.”
6.“My students are spending more time using AI on their assignments than they would if they actually just did the assignment themselves. Absolutely bonkers.”
— Anonymous
7.“It has exposed new levels of student laziness. My husband teaches history, and he literally got an assignment that began, ‘As an AI, I cannot give an opinion.'”
— lovelytortoise925
8.“It’s less students using AI and more everyone else. Standardized tests are being written using it, and we can tell. The tests were already garbage and biased, but now they are riddled with spelling and grammar mistakes.”
9.“I’m not a teacher; I’m a mature-age student getting my BA in design. My teachers still can’t tell when students use AI! Our online discussion board is just stupid. The discussions mean nothing. I had to lie to the girl I was doing an assignment with and tell her that universities have this new AI scanner in order to actually get her to do the work.”
10.“AI doesn’t give room for critical thinking. Students depend so much on the output of AI and give it no kind of mental review. Students do not take classroom attendance seriously; they believe AI can give them whatever is given in the classroom.”
" In addition , it erases respect for teachers because students experience as if they do n’t have to depend on them but just on AI . This further a lack of discipline among the scholar . They ca n’t recognise disinformation . They should be made to realize the pauperism for critical thought . "
11.“The students don’t know anything. They think using AI to cheat is the same as learning the information for themselves. Imagine you’re having surgery and your doctor uses AI to fudge his way through medical school. Or you drive across a bridge built by an engineer who cheated by using AI. They think they’re clever or insightful for sliding a generated response into the pile, but they’re lying their way through an education that they aren’t actually getting.”
12.“The majority of my students either do not speak English or just learned English within the school year. I teach first-graders inNew YorkCity; it is very common to haveELLstudents in the city, as there are many immigrants and refugees here. We have been asked by the state to use online AI programs that read to the children to practice listening comprehension.”
" The AI expects bookman to verbally reply to various command prompt within specific fourth dimension systema skeletale . The issue is that kid who have enough knowledge of English to respond to the prompts lean to have accents that the AI ca n’t understand .
" When the AI does n’t understand their accents , it will continually ask the same motion andwon’t allow the tyke to move to the next questionif it does n’t understand their reply . Naturally , this crucify kids and takes a large toll on their confidence in speaking the newfangled terminology .
" And for the kids who love no English at all , the platform is useless , yet the state still involve it to be used , thus leave to more wasted sentence and frustrated learners . "
— meebz2173
13.“I’m a ninth-grade Spanish teacher. My students have writing tests that they type on their computers at the end of each unit. At least three or four students in each class will try to use our writing assistant to write the prompt for them. It’s frustrating to have to run it through an indicator if the essay looks too good.”
14.And finally: “I teach computer science at the high school level. AI has transformed students from being collaborative problem solvers to lazy, unimaginative robots who attempt to plug in their assignments and copy and paste. When I give them code to correct on paper, it becomes immediately clear who knows what they’re doing and who doesn’t. It makes it so hard to do fun projects like building simple video games because they don’t know how to problem-solve on their own if they get stuck. I understand using AI to debug — I do it too — but only after I’ve actually written some of the code first.”
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