This week, we looked into AI generator tools and their relationship to education. Growing up, while AI was just becoming a reality, I was taught to be afraid of it and to stay away from using anything with AI. Today, AI is celebrated and brought into every social media and website for our use without us even knowing it, making it hard to avoid. ChatGPT is the tool that I heard of most within AI advancement and common use. I have used this site before, back in January when I was looking for advice on birthday gifts for family members. I remember being afraid to use it, and also confused at how accessible it was. I had always thought it was part of the dark web or a payment was required. I found myself not liking ChatGPT, as it gave me very boring and generic answers, nothing creative or helpful came from my conversation with this website. I felt like everything it was saying, was stuff I easily could’ve found online somewhere else, which I know is exactly what AI is doing but it still felt like a waste of time and effort me. This time around, I wanted to talk about education with the AI. My roommate is a teacher and has used ChatGPT to create lesson plays and write plays for her students to act out – making a large workload be very minimal. So first, I tried making a lesson plan. I asked it to create a lesson plan to teach grade 12 students the basics of calculus. The AI created this lesson plan fairly quickly and gave great detail into the work needed to be done. It listed the objective, materials needed, proper timeline with dates and breaking down the period into chunks of work including time for students to work alone and together, assessments and reviews, and extensions ideas. This AI really covered everything needed to plan my week of calculus. Then, I asked about the AIs ability to teach. It responded by saying it could definitely teach someone math, including daily lessons, quizzes and personalized feedback that students may not get in the classroom. However, it stated that AI would not be able to replace the human teacher as it has less emotional intelligence and cannot read people like another person is able to. Although I know that AI simply collects data from the internet and gives it to me quickly, it was interesting to see it’s opinions and abilities given the prompts. Overall, as teachers I can see ChatGPT being useful to get things done quickly or to find new ideas to present things in new ways to students, but I fear that it is simply stealing from other people, and not crediting them. If this source is just collecting data form online, how can we know where it is getting this information? I am worried about copying someone without even knowing I am doing so, and that is not fair to the person who put in the work to create these ideas or lesson plans. I do think it is a helpful and interesting tool, but I feel like I need more information to fully trust this new idea. In the future, I think I will rely on my own ideas first and push myself to be creative before I turn to the information provided by an artificial source.
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AuthorMy name is Paige Belcourt and I am currently a student a the University of Regina. I am working towards a degree in Secondary Mathematics Education with a minor in French, as well as a certificate in inclusive Education. Archives
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