Well, now you’re asking a definitional question. What counts as “AI”? If I use OCR to help grade multiple choice tests, I’ve saved hours. That’s AI, isn’t it? What about spaced repetition for flashcards or dynamic question selection for quizzes? Do they count? … So then we’re back to the same old story. People want to sell weird fancy useless shit (that counts as AI), so you ask if AI has value, and then they reply by giving you more traditional examples (that also count as AI), and then the whole conversation leads nowhere.
Anyway, let’s focus it. Let’s go with ChatGPT as a generative tool. Then still there are some real gains that can be made. Small but real.
If I’m brainstorming ideas for a lesson plan and use ChatGPT to come up with 10 ideas that I use for inspiration, maybe that’s OK.
If I need a graphic to illustrate some concept to the students and I use genAI to create it, could be useful.
We can come up with dozens of things just like this. Teachers using generative AI in small ways for specific tasks to speed up their workflow.
Hmm, I think all of your examples were examples of the teachers during prep, which is interesting, but not what I would have called “in the classroom”. I got the sense the article was talking more about it being in the hands of students, but maybe I’m wrong about that?
Well, now you’re asking a definitional question. What counts as “AI”? If I use OCR to help grade multiple choice tests, I’ve saved hours. That’s AI, isn’t it? What about spaced repetition for flashcards or dynamic question selection for quizzes? Do they count? … So then we’re back to the same old story. People want to sell weird fancy useless shit (that counts as AI), so you ask if AI has value, and then they reply by giving you more traditional examples (that also count as AI), and then the whole conversation leads nowhere.
Anyway, let’s focus it. Let’s go with ChatGPT as a generative tool. Then still there are some real gains that can be made. Small but real.
Hmm, I think all of your examples were examples of the teachers during prep, which is interesting, but not what I would have called “in the classroom”. I got the sense the article was talking more about it being in the hands of students, but maybe I’m wrong about that?