How Some Teachers Are Combatting The Rise In AI Use in Classrooms
By Movieguide® Contributor
College professors are reworking their curriculums as students continue to use ChatGPT AI technology to cheat on assignments.
“There is going to be a big shift back to paper-based tests,” Bonnie MacKellar, a computer science professor at St. John’s University in New York City, told Fox News. “I hear colleagues in humanities courses saying the same thing: It’s back to the blue books.”
Timothy Main, a writing professor at Conestoga College, is also changing his students’ assignments after seeing “a seven-fold increase” in cheating as ChatGPT increases in popularity.
Main plans on personalizing the work to each student, making it more difficult for an AI program to write the assignment. He will also give some major warnings about the consequences of using AI for classwork.
Despite educators’ best efforts, more and more students are using ChatGPT for their schoolwork.
College Rover conducted a survey that found “nearly four in 10 students indicated they’re not interested in attending a college or university that bans chatbots such as ChatGPT,” per ComputerWorld.
However, College Rover’s founder and CEO Bill Townsend claimed using ChatGPT “is not much different than giving them an open-book test.”
“In order to pass, students still have to understand the material and how to utilize their resources, whether that be a textbook or a chatbot, in the most effective way,” he continued.
Another survey found that students aren’t using AI at the rate many teachers and administrators might think.
Copyleaks reported that “student assignments found to have used AI dropped by 15%. Fewer than 10% of college assignments contained AI,” per University Business.
Movieguide® previously reported on how some teachers are using AI as a teaching tool, rather than banning it outright:
Some educators are fully embracing these AI tools and even using them to help automate the more menial aspects of the job.
Brian Stiles, a high school journalism teacher, uses ChatGPT to create writing prompts for his students.
“It can spit out all kinds of really generalized ideas for stories that they can tell, which is a great starting point for a lot of kids, especially the ones that struggle with coming up with creative approaches,” he said.
Rather than asking students should be able to use ChatGPT, the narrative should be based around the use of technology and the way it can help or hinder people’s ability to think critically, develop opinions and use technology to learn, rather than just consume.
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