Todays class was more discussion based than lecture, with an Ed camp allowing us to join any of the mini discussions scattered around the class area. I chose to join the discussion based around AI in classrooms, and what sort of place we believed it should have in all classroom levels.

I took the point of view that although AI can have a use in classrooms, it should only be done in a way that makes virtually misuse impossible. In my Link 2 Practice classroom I saw one use of AI that I thought could be useful in many classrooms, as well as allowed no ability for misuse. The only way AI was used in that classroom was through a specific website they used for research (not Google) that had a button at the top of the screen to adjust the wording to simplify the article if needed, with the use of AI. I saw many students who struggled to understand the articles prior to the adjustments, have a much easier time researching for their projects.

A common theme that came up when talking about using AI, wasn’t just the environmental impact, because I have talked about it a lot, but how to most of us it was ingrained in our heads that AI is cheating. I personally don’t see AI as cheating unless you are using it to write your entire essay, but I do see it as a lazier way of doing things, and I don’t believe we should encourage students to use it in place of doing their own research or drawing their own pictures.