AI in school?

Artificial Intelligence is a very controversial topic. Especially when it comes to using it in schools. Some students use AI to help create ideas, to study, to help get a better understanding of how to do schoolwork. On the other hand, some students are using AI to essentially cheat, give them direct answers, and do all the work for them. Personally, I think AI is a good tool to use if you need some help if a teacher isn’t available. I’ve never really thought about the way teachers use artificial intelligence, and after reading The Pros and Cons of AI in Education: Benefits, Risks, and Real Examples by Michael Healey, I realized that it is actually very beneficial for teachers to use in school.

Michael is a superintendent, and in this article he explains how artificial intelligence can be used in many positive ways in the classroom. It helps elementary school students with understanding complex vocabulary, it helps teachers be able brainstorm lesson plans and ideas, and helps high school students elaborate on work. From the perspective of a superintendent, Healey believes that AI is useful for improving overall learning in schools. By helping personalize schoolwork and lessons for struggling students, collecting data and ideas for teachers to help save teachers’ time, and even identifying early behavioral concerns and ways to shift it. Michael also expresses the cons within using AI, such as protecting student data, interrupting hands on work and being over reliant on technology, and getting incorrect or inaccurate information from AI- it may sound like it is always right, but when information is unclear, artificial intelligence may give incorrect feedback. 

Using AI in schools matters to me because it is very beneficial in some aspects. It also matters to me that artificial intelligence is being used correctly and appropriately in schools to get the best results, to help students and teachers. AI matters to the world because it has been a massive advancement to our daily lives and technology and it helps many people in ways that may not have been possible before.  

This article is showing me that artificial intelligence changes my thinking and my life because it helps me in school to better expand my knowledge and thinking, sometimes without even knowing it. Yes, there are many cons that come with using AI, but overall this made me realize that education is advancing tremendously with the use of it. I think many people and schools should consider including AI in a part of their daily routine, and see how it changes their life for the better, or maybe for the worse. AI can change and do many things, why not explore it and try it out for yourself!