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Blog Artificial
Intelligence In the Classroom
Artificial
Intelligence:The creating of a system that can think and act like
a human.
Robotics: The creation of machines
that perform tasks that replace human activity. Drones: An unmanned aircraft that can be used by
both civilian and military personal.
Stephen Hawking told the BBC “The development of full
artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human
race….It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an
ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological
evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.”
Artificial Intelligence will alter the
privacy, content, effectiveness, integrity and most of all the
relationships between the students, teachers, parents and
administration. It already has been used by students to
study and communicate, write book reports, assignments, and
homework. Teachers are starting to use AI to make daily
lesson plans, create assignments, model IEP (Individual
Lesson Plans) for special education, grade papers, create
and evaluate tests, contact parents and administration.
Unfortunately the use of AI has had very negative
affects both directly and indirectly.
Students who use AI to write reports or do their
homework, will lose the ability to do
research, learn
from their studies and make decisions from their efforts. Plagiarism and errors
are becoming common and as a result they will find that
dishonesty has rewards. . Sadly many will also fail to
develop vital
creative thinking skills such as gathering information,
evaluating that information and making a conclustion.
Furthermore they will, in many cases provide sites
information which can be used negatively. I had a student
become very upset when he tried to turn in a required report,which was written by his computer. He said he paid a great
deal for the paper and thus it should be allowed to hand it
in! Of course this did not fly with me!
Teachers can benefit from AI because it does provide
an efficient way of creating
worksheets, tests and
grading along with attendance, and lesson plans thus giving
them more time to work with the student directly. However if
used incorrectly the use of AI can, reduce the personal
communication with students, parents and administration,
with issues of discipline and
curriculum. Furthermore the
overuse of AI should never be encouraged or used. Never
under any way should the human element be removed from the
classroom. AI should never, never replace a human TEACHER!
Artificial
Intelligence:
