I was just at a meeting yesterday where a Town Council member encouraged the school district to use AI to help write curriculum. I could have screamed. Let’s just extract the heart and soul out of all learning.
Sadly, some of my students are using AI to write "personal" response papers that I ask them to write about the novels we're reading. The essays are only 1-2 pages and aren't graded. They just have to turn them in! They're the easiest thing to write and are the chance for the students to "talk" to me about how they feel about the novel. And yet, some of them feel weird, so I run them through an AI detector and find that they've used AI. How lazy is this! Their brains are shrinking as I write this. Soon they'll all be those people in the floaty chairs at the end of WALL-E.
I recently admired and shared some amazing poems, written by a friend, only to discover he'd used AI to "tweak" them. It disturbed me and I felt betrayed somehow, even though I don't really know how much AI had to do with it. 😞
Thank you for talking about something troubling in a way that wasn't about finding a solution, just being with it, together.
Thank you, Isabel!
I love this piece. Especially the photos. But also, all of it. Thanks, Belle.
Thank you, Ariel!
I was just at a meeting yesterday where a Town Council member encouraged the school district to use AI to help write curriculum. I could have screamed. Let’s just extract the heart and soul out of all learning.
Sadly, some of my students are using AI to write "personal" response papers that I ask them to write about the novels we're reading. The essays are only 1-2 pages and aren't graded. They just have to turn them in! They're the easiest thing to write and are the chance for the students to "talk" to me about how they feel about the novel. And yet, some of them feel weird, so I run them through an AI detector and find that they've used AI. How lazy is this! Their brains are shrinking as I write this. Soon they'll all be those people in the floaty chairs at the end of WALL-E.
I know, it makes me so sad! I have moved to all notebook responses for this sort of thing.
I recently admired and shared some amazing poems, written by a friend, only to discover he'd used AI to "tweak" them. It disturbed me and I felt betrayed somehow, even though I don't really know how much AI had to do with it. 😞
Yes! The feeling of betrayal! One of my students showed me an AI text "apology" she got from another friend.