Kevin Hudson, Professor of History and Psychology at New Milford High School in Connecticut, says that ai is a tool that can be useful when used so that they promote creativity instead of replacing thought. His school uses class, a ai tutor who, according to him, has helped improve certain students' tasks, but, of course, has limitations.
“For something simple, such as teaching students to write a complete prayer, it is perfect,” says Hudson. “But for more complex summative evaluations, I don't think the ai is ready.”
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Hudson has used ai to provide students with immediate summative comments on a brief response to an article on the Silk Route. Hudson sets the Companion class to search for specific elements in each student's response. This takes some time in the front, but you can really provide students with immediate and detailed comments that normally cannot due to time limitations.
“Children are frustrated with that sometimes because I'm probably more indulgent than ai would be in some of these things,” he says.
But the beauty of this exercise is that it gives students the opportunity to review their response based on the ai comments. This encourages them to improve their writing and real -time reasoning. It can also help catch small spelling and grammar errors in larger tasks.
In general, the use of these tools has led to better quality presentations, which allows the type of instruction one to one that is logistically impossible for most teachers, says Hudson. “The ai improved his essay as if he were there helping them with him,” he adds.
Disadvantages to take into account
Despite his positive experiences, Hudson agrees with those who point out the inconveniences of technology . “I have colleagues who will say that we should never let them use it because it will only encourage them to use it as a crutch in everything. And I understand it totally, ”he says.
Compare it with trying to teach children to wash dishes in a world with dishwasher. “They assume that the dishwasher will always be there,” he says. “At the end of the day, the students did not learn to wash the dishes, but clean the dishes, so what is the problem? The problem is not that all dishes go in the dishwasher. “
He adds: “The other thing is that teachers are aware of the medical and social hazards of too much screen time. The use of the occasional assistant may be fine, but delivering an education on a screen is not. “
Of course, educators and society are still learning to navigate all this. “We, as teachers, have to discover where it is useful and where it is harmful,” says Hudson.
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For teachers who have not yet submerged the fingers of the world in the world of ai , Hudson's advice is to begin. “Find ways to use it. Know very well, because your students already know it,” he says. Students can also be using it less productively and teachers can help guide this use to support more effective and ethical practices.
Ultimately, Hudson has seen from his own experience that ai tools can be positive in the classroom and can help with differentiation if used in the right way. He hopes to find productive ways to use ai and guide his students against uses of unusual and counterproductive.
“If we can teach students to use it, or at least criticize their use, then we will do a real service, but if we ignore it, we are not doing a service,” he says.
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