I went into ChatGPT and played with Coloring Book Hero Generator, Grammar Checker, Writing Assistant, Animation Creation, and Cartoonize Yourself along with many others. I had so much fun. Every year, our school has a Carnival Day to celebrate testing being over. We always try and find a coloring page for carnival day and the ones we find are so simple and not fun for our students. I used Coloring Book Hero Generator to create a coloring page for Carnival Day. I was quite impressed with the results. The other apps I played with were just for fun to see what they were all about.
AI generated image showing the importance of AI in the classroom
In education, we as teachers and librarians need to keep up with the technology that is being used. I am going out on a limb and saying my students probably know about AI way more than I do. After this week, I plan to get on and play with it some more. Our district has paid for the MagicSchool subscription so that is where I plan to start exploring but I am also going to look at ChatGPT as well because that seems to be trending right now and I know that if adults are using it like I have seen then I know students are as well.
I feel that if we create lessons for students and give them ways to use AI then it can be done in a way that doesn't effect ethical values. We don't want students to use AI to get all the answers or write their papers. We want students to learn but we could still let them use AI to do this. One of Mollick's activities in the prompt library for students was a tutor. I went in and asked Chat GPT to give me 10 subtraction problems. The first problem was a two-digit subtraction with regrouping. It gave the problem and then told me to think about if I should subtract the 10s or the 1s first. I gave it the wrong answer to see what it's response was. It broke it down even further and walked me through step by step. Students in any grade level could use this during independent time. Instead of asking the teacher for help every two seconds why not allow them to get on the app and use it to help themselves. It won't just give them the answer it will make them think through the problem first.
Now that I have been exploring AI and all the resources it can provide for teachers and students I know that I will be implementing it more into the classroom as well as learning even more about it to help others use it as well. This is something that I wasn't sure about at first but I can see how useful it can be and if it's going to be around and not go anywhere then we, as educators, may as well implement it into the classrooms.
Hi Renee,
ReplyDeleteI also used to have similar feelings about AI. In the academic setting using resources like ChatGPT was forbidden and could be cause for academic integrity allegation. Therefore, it has been difficult to shift my mindset in other areas of my life. In the “Co-Intelligence: AI in the Classroom” lecture I thought Mollick’s (2024) parallel to the calculator was a perfect way to express a lot of people's attitudes towards AI. However, just like the calculator we learn to adapt technology to improve education. As you mentioned there are ways that AI can be used ethically in the education setting by both students and teachers. Since AI will continue to play a role in our lives and in the lives of our students, I believe it's important to provide them with meaningful opportunities to interact with it just as we do with other technologies.