While some teachers may consider AI as a beneficial tool, others believe that the new technology has overall negative effects and is a way for students to cheat on assignments. Teachers who support AI argue that it powers many useful websites such as Class Campaign, but still many report that issues arise when students use generative chatbots like ChatGPT to complete written assignments for them.
Over recent years at DHS, the school’s handbook has included using AI (when not specifically allowed by the teacher), classifying the use of it as plagiarism.
In order to capture the perspective of the DHS community, we interviewed a mix of anonymous students and found many of them have conflicting views on AI use.
One anonymous student shared their thoughts on AI.
“I think the kids using AI are goofy, it doesn’t sound like them and teachers could tell the difference between goofy AI and your actual writing.”
However not all students were so against AI use; another anonymous student claimed “AI use is great, I use it in almost every class and it has had a strong impact on my work quality and ability to finish assignments.”
In addition, some teachers also use AI for certain tasks.
One teacher, who kept anonymous, stated, “I think we have a responsibility as teachers to know how to use AI to ask questions and get the results they want. As we talk now I’m working on an AI lesson plan for my freshmen.”
Overall, we found that AI is a new innovative technology that is slowly making its way into more aspects of education. However, as an educational community we should learn to use AI in a way that is beneficial to learning, rather than blatantly relying on it to complete assignments.
