Last spring, While I closed my 18th year of teaching, I felt anxiety that I never felt before at the end of a school year. As the grades are submitted and the signs of summer arrive, teachers are generally able to breathe for the first time in nine months. Instead of relaxation, joy and accomplishment which generally awaits the end of an academic year, I was consumed to fear that it is the last time in a career of almost two decades that I taught at a course without having to worry about AI.
I understand – Ai Technically been foreverand natural language treatment tools such as the OpenAi Chatppt are Built on research decades. Anyone who has used spell-spelling translation applications or heard a spoken text message used linguistic processing tools managed by AI technology. But many teachers with whom I know did not worry too much about the extent to which AI could infiltrate our classrooms so far.
Most teachers follow technology to a reasonable extent and do our best to teach our students how to use it in a responsible manner. Many consider technology as an educational asset, and I had long believed that students are more committed when their lessons make it amply.
However, as the old Latin saying says, everything changes and we change with them. No one knows this reality better than teachers. When Chatgpt exploded on the dominant current last NovemberWe could not have anticipated how our work could be affected.
It turned out that Chatgpt was the Consumption application to fasting growth in historyReaching 100 million active users only two months after the launch, according to a Reuters report. For the context, it took Tiktok nine months and Instagram two years To reach the same milestone, according to the data from Sensor Tower, a digital data analysis company.
Suddenly, doing my best did not seem good enough. As the next academic year is upper gear, I will need knowledge of AI which did not seem urgent or even necessary at all a year ago. I will spend a good part of this summer to learn as much as possible on how AI affects education, students and class spaces. Perhaps the most important, I will have to become smarter about how to ethically incorporate AI into my teaching. With these objectives in mind, I started a quest for resources in the mind to familiarize themselves with AI. After all, the best defense is a good offense. Here are some of the things I learned.
Ethics and AI in education
The concerns as to whether computers and robots will replace human beings in any profession are as old as the day is long, and there is a real apprehension as AI will increase the disparity of income between many jobs and professions– In particular teachers. These problems are legitimate (and frightening) and must be resolved. But according to whom you ask, have either East Or No likely to replace teachers in the near future.
Bill Gates pointed out that AI is about to be as good as teachers at teaching work (and for some, which implies that we are soon replaced), but it would be Say that. Gates has billions invested in his own ideas On the way education should be and probably wants to see a return on his investment – a question that raises full -fledged ethics.