For her 6th year honors class, Mathematics Professor Ana Sepúlveda wanted to make geometry fun. She thought that her students “who live and breathe football” would be interested in knowing how mathematical concepts apply to sport. She asked Cat for help.
In a few seconds, the chatbot delivered a five -page course plan, even offering a theme: “Geometry is everywhere in football – on the field, in the ball and even in the design of stadiums!”
He explained the place of forms and angles on a football field. He suggested starters of conversation in class: why are these forms important for the game? He proposed a project so that students design their own football field or stadium using managers and rapporteurs.
“The use of AI has changed the game for me,” said Sepúlveda, who teaches in a double language school in Dallas and tickled everything in Spanish. “It helps me in planning lessons, communication with parents and the increase in students' commitment.”
Across the country, Artificial intelligence tools Change the teaching profession because educators use them to help write quiz and work leaves, design lessons, help note and reduce documents. By releasing their time, many say that technology has improved them in their work.
A survey published Wednesday by Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation found 6 American teachers in 10 working in public schools from kindergarten to kindergarten AI tools For their work in the past school year, with heavier use among high school educators and teachers at the start of their career. He interviewed more than 2,000 teachers nationwide in April.
Respondents who use the weekly estimate of AI tools, they save them about six hours a week, which suggests that technology could help reduce teachers' exhaustion, said the consultant in search of Gallup, Andrea Malek Ash, who is the author of the report.
States publish directives for using AI tools in classrooms
While schools are navigating concerns about the abuse of technology students, some also have guidelines and training for educators so that teachers are aware of avoiding shortcuts that short-circuit students.
About two dozen states have advice on AI at state level for schools, but the extent to which it is applied by schools and teachers is uneven, explains Maya Israel, an aggregate professor of educational technology and computer education at the University of Florida.
“We want to make sure that AI does not replace the judgment of a teacher,” said Israel.
If teachers use chatbots for the classification, they must be aware that the tools are good for the “low level” classification like multiple choice tests, but less effective when nuances are necessary. There should be a way for students to alert teachers if the classification is too hard or inconsistent, and the final classification decision must remain with the educator, she said.
About 8 in 10 teachers who use AI tools say that it saves them time on work tasks such as working sheets, assessments, quizs or administrative work. And about 6 in 10 teachers who use AI tools said they improved the quality of their work when it comes to changing students' equipment or giving students comments.
“AI has transformed the way I teach. This also transformed my weekends and gave me a better balance between professional and private life, “said Mary McCarthy, professor of high school social studies in the Houston region who used AI tools to get help with course plans and other tasks.
McCarthy said that the training she had received from her school district on AI tools helped her model to use appropriate use for her students.
“If I am on the soap box,” AI is bad and children will become stupid “, well yes, if we do not teach them to use the tool,” said McCarthy. “It looks like my responsibility as an adult in the room to help them understand how to navigate this future.”
Teachers say that technology is better used with sparing
Opinions on the role of artificial intelligence in education have evolved considerably since the launch of Chatgpt at the end of 2022. Schools in the country initially prohibited it, but since then, many have sought means to Incorporate it into the classrooms. The concerns about the overuse and the abusive use of students are always widespread: about half of the teachers fear that the use of AI students reduce the ability of adolescents to think critically and independently or to have persistence when solving problems, depending on the study.
An advantage that teachers see by familiarizing themselves with artificial intelligence is the ability to identify when excess students.
Indices that the missions are written by AI tools include an absence of grammatical errors and complex phrases, said Darren Barkett, English teacher at Colorado High School. He said he was leaning on Chatgpt himself to create course plans and note the multiple choice tests and tests.
In the suburbs of Chicago, the college art teacher Lindsay Johnson said that she only used the AI programs verified by her school and deemed safe to use with minors, for data confidentiality and other concerns. To ensure that students feel confident in their skills, she said that she only brings technology for subsequent projects of projects.
For the final evaluation of his 8th year students, Johnson asked them to portray an influential person in their lives. After the students finally put on the face of their subject, Johnson introduced a generative AI for those who wanted to help the design of the background. She used an AI tool in Canva, after having checked with the IT department of her district that the design software has passed its confidentiality criterion.
“As an art teacher, my goal is to let them know the different tools that exist and teach them how these tools work,” she said. Some students were not interested in help. “Half of the class said:” I have a vision and I will continue. “”
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