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All who love to denigrate public education should read articles like that. All who see only the negatives in new AI tools should read articles like that. Yes of course, there will be many teachers who will take time to utilize it as other more energetic, more responsible teachers do before them, but that's what teacher in-service education programs are all about.

"The Creative Ways Teachers Are Using ChatGPT in the Classroom"

As good doctors need to study to keep up, so good teachers have to study to keep up. I knew a doctor who hadn't changed his approach after 40 years of practice.

Good governments must have good Education Departments. Good Education Departments need to provide good in-service courses

Importance of In-Service Training in School Education – Ms. Anshu Mital
BY ADMIN PUBLISHED August 27, 2022, UPDATED January 9, 2023
“A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never
light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame.”- Rabindranath Tagore
https://www.dpsgs.org/sushant-lok/blog/importance-service-training-school-education

Reading articles like this gets the juices going. I wish it could be a feel good article for all.

"But Paccone and a growing group of educators believe it’s too late to keep AI out of their classrooms. Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, a major teachers union, believes the panic about AI is not unlike the ones caused by the Internet and graphing calculators when they were first introduced, arguing ChatGPT “is to English and to writing like the calculator is to math.” In this view, there are two options facing teachers: show their students how to use ChatGPT in a responsible way, or expect the students to abuse it.

Math raps and Shakespeare translation

As teachers wrestle with whether to use AI in their classrooms this year, they’re also learning about the pernicious ways that abuse can take place.

At another Zoom teacher training workshop that TIME observed in July, hosted by Garnet Valley School District in Garnet Valley, Penn., education consultant A.J. Juliani ran through various AI apps that students are using to cut corners in class. Photomath lets students upload a picture of a math problem and get detailed instructions on how to solve it. Tome can turn notes into a narrative, perfect for essay writing and preparing for presentations. And Readwise can highlight key parts of PDFs so that students can get through readings faster.

“Many of them are just using it to do the work because they're bored,” Juliani said. “They're not engaged. They don't care. And we have to own up to that.”

Many of the more than a dozen teachers TIME interviewed for this story argue that the way to get kids to care is to proactively use ChatGPT in the classroom. A Walton Family Foundation survey published July 18 found 73% of teacher respondents had heard of ChatGPT, and 33% used it to help come up with “creative ideas for classes.”

Some of those creative ideas are already in effect at Peninsula High School in Gig Harbor, about an hour from Seattle. In Erin Rossing’s precalculus class, a student got ChatGPT to generate a rap about vectors and trigonometry in the style of Kanye West, while geometry students used the program to write mathematical proofs in the style of raps, which they performed in a classroom competition."

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Teachers are also using ChatGPT to generate materials for students at different reading levels. Aileen Wallace, who teaches a class on current events in Falkirk, Scotland, said the tool could instantly produce simplified versions of readings on the causes of terrorism for 14-year-olds who either read at lower reading levels than the rest of the class or have been learning English as a second language.

To be sure, ChatGPT doesn’t always get things right—but teachers are finding that provides its own way to engage students. Some are having students fact-check essays generated by the program in response to their prompts, hoping to simultaneously test students’ knowledge of the topic and show them the problems with relying on AI to do nuanced work.

In Panama, International Baccalaureate teacher Anna May Drake had juniors and seniors critique a ChatGPT-generated essay comparing George Orwell's 1984 and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale, while in the Detroit area, Sarah Millard, a ninth-grade honors English teacher, had students critique a ChatGPT-generated essay on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. “My students have never been so engaged in writing,” Millard says. “They wanted to beat the computer” and were “tearing apart” the AI-generated essay.

[LOLOL - That would be fun!]

Excellent article. Your - https://time.com/6300950/ai-schools-chatgpt-teachers/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=sfmc&utm_campaign=newsletter+spotlight+default+ac&utm_content=+++20230808+++body&et_rid=207276253&lctg=207276253