Many English teachers have drawn a line in the sand against all the uses of ai for students. Bill Henry, an eighth grade English professor at Amity Middle School in Orange, Connecticut, on the other hand, has adopted the approach of his school to teach students how to use ai in a responsible and ethical way that prepares them for a world in which ai will probably play an increasingly important role.
“The thought process behind this is that technology will continue to be there, and if we accept it from the beginning and teach them to use it, they can achieve more than if they try to use the phones or a separate tab,” says Henry.
To that end, Henry teaches a rapid writing exercise to students who require that they use the ai of the Magic School, which is approved by their district and allows teachers to control how the chatbot of ai interacts with students.
Henry, who also teaches English at the University of Quinnipiac, says he has also used with university students to help them create a scheme and a structure for their work. It emphasizes its K-12 and university students that ai is not destined to replace their thinking and creativity.
<h2 id="guiding-ai -led-writing-exercises-3″>WRITING EXERCISE GUIDE LEADED BY ai –ai
The platform that Henry's School uses for ai allows teachers to control what ai can and cannot do in student interactions. This allows teachers to really emphasize thought and creativity with the use of ai , while teaching usable practical skills such as rapid writing.
In the lesson that Henry leads to eighth grade students, students create a notice for ai that requests a statement related to the issues of their readings for the course, but the chatbot does not provide a real topic statement in response. Instead, it offers advice on how to improve your warning to Chatbot, so that students can review their notice.
“Then they used it to generate three thematic statements, and they had to choose the one they considered their book better, and needed to provide examples of their books to support them,” he says.
<h2 id="how-students-react-to-ai -use-3″>How students react to ai use
“Students are generally excited about the mention of ai , and immediately think 'we will use chat or snap ai ', but we begin with an argument on how only certain platforms are approved for the district and how it should be used as a means to improve His writing, instead of replacing the writing process, ”he says. “While some students initially thought it was a way of cheating, once they saw that it was a way to help them improve their writing and obtain live comments, they were more excited about it.”
He adds: “Some of them still tried to cancel the school of magic with indications that asked him when he took care of humanity, or tried to make fun of the system to do more than we had done. He fulfilled the objective of the objective of the lesson.
<h2 id="advice-for-incorporating-ai -into-your-classroom-3″>Tip to incorporate ai in your classroom
When it comes to other teachers who use ai , Henry has some tips: “Be sure to use a program approved by the district and have control. Emphasize that the bots are not destined to replace thought, but to help students push their own thought even more. ”
He adds: “When used as a tool, you can provide live comments for students who complement their own comments and can work to help them better understand the processes behind writing, when used together with the District Curriculum and Objectives “
Henry believes that some of the concerns that many writing instructors have around the use of ai are wrong. “The greatest fear for many English teachers is that it will make our jobs obsolete,” he says. “Actually, it can be used to help develop writers and allow them to integrate technology as a tool, instead of a medium to replace their thinking.”
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