I personally think that AI should not be used by either teachers or students in education. I feel that it rarely acts as an additive tool, that it doesn’t supplement students’ learning and is a disservice to students for teachers to use it in the assessment and lesson planning process. Students using it to generate their content, brain storm ideas, and format their assignments feels unnecessary and self-demeaning to me as they should develop the skills to plan and brain storm themselves. Additionally, I think that collaboration and peer review is a far better way to critique and assess their works rather than inputting it into AI.

However, I understand that students and other teachers may use AI regardless and it would be impossible for me to entirely restrict students’ use of it. Although I have a fairly radically negative view of generative AI, there are always going to be some examples of AI use that are beneficial. The use of AI for translating text, TTS and STT software, and other such assistive tools or applications undeniably benefits people. Additionally, I’ve seen specific closed AI systems be used in certain fields; one such example is in 3D animation, where a studio created an generative AI system trained exclusively on their own 2D models that was capable of creating frameworks for 3D models at different angles. Rather than just entirely restricting AI usage and punishing those that do use it, I plan instead to create a lesson plan around AI, identifying it’s shortcomings, the history of AI, and allowing students to come to their own conclusion.