Artificial Intelligence is growing by day and some students are using it to do their work for them. This has caused issues in some classes because there is no easy way to stop kids from using AI to their advantage.
Mrs. Passler, English 11 teacher at Arrowhead, compares AI today as the siren song in the epic poem The Odyssey. In the story Odysseus advises the sailors to plug their ears so they don’t hear it because the song is very tempting. Eventually the sailors hear the song and they get pulled onto the rocks.“People use it because they want to get their homework done,” Passler said. “Using it as a study buddy is cool. That is valuable, but if you just use AI it is only typing practice.”
Sometimes Passler tells people to use AI as a study buddy but as long as they are not using what the AI says and they are still writing their own work it is helpful.
Passler also compared AI to Daisy Buchanen, a character in The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. “AI is Daisy Buchanen: it has no substance. Eventually someone is gonna notice and you’re gonna look like a doofus.”
Passler thinks that students who use AI are not growing their reading comprehension skills because they are not reading articles: they are telling AI to do it for them. Passler also thinks students who use AI are not going to do as well on the ACT because they are not getting practice reading articles and answering questions about them.
While English teachers are not fond of students using AI in class, other teachers in different departments like sports marketing have different opinions on it. For example, Ms. Miller, teacher for sports and entertainment marketing at Arrowhead, promotes the use of Artificial intelligence on projects and assignments.
In the end, kids are not going to stop using AI to do their work for them, but it’s going to show in the future when they do not have general skills they should have learned in high school.
