Generative AI Will Flood Schools This Fall–Here's What Might Happen
As we approach the fall of 2023, here are six predictions on how the use of Generative AI in education will play out in the first term of the new school year. If you know me for the optimist I am, these may surprise you.
- Increased Adoption of ChatGPT by Teachers:?Throughout this semester, tens of thousands of teachers will discover and start to use ChatGPT. Their proficiency will increase because it will be self-taught or developed through online discussions and forums. What's needed are more structured professional development opportunities around AI in education. But...
- Missed Opportunities for Effective Professional Development: Despite the pressing need for PD on AI tools like ChatGPT, school-based professional development will fail to provide the training teachers need.
- Rise in Cheating Accusations: Incidents where students are accused of cheating with the help of AI tools like ChatGPT, will increase. And, there will be a disproportionate number of false accusations directed at BIPOC, linguistically diverse, and economically disadvantaged students. This issue speaks to the broader challenges of bias in education and how they might be exacerbated by AI, suggesting the need for clear guidelines and equitable practices when it comes to detecting and addressing the use of AI for completing assignments.
- Undetected AI Usage Among High-Performing Students: A certain swath of students will never be accused of cheating. High-performing students, particularly those with access to more resources, will use ChatGPT without detection. This will take place as long as discussions are avoided about what constitutes legitimate use in class.
- Limited Evolution of Assessment and Assignments: Despite the growing use of AI, the design and structure of assessments and assignments by teachers will remain largely unchanged, making them susceptible to AI tools. Teachers will need to rethink their design of assessments to ensure they are testing students' understanding and abilities rather than their ability to use AI.
- Lack of Proactive Conversations Around AI in Education: Teachers and school leaders will largely fail to have proactive, student-centered conversations about how to use generative AI for learning responsibly. This lack of response to AI will lead to missed opportunities to leverage these tools to enhance learning rather than merely facilitate cheating.
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Generative AI provides a massive opportunity. Keeping these predictions at bay is a leadership effort and community conversation coupled with thoughtful, forward-thinking guidelines.
The bottom line is this: the future of AI in education is an unwritten book, and we're the authors. By recognizing the risks before they become entrenched, we can evolve with AI this fall.
The implications are not only with what we teach and/or how we teach.... Taking this further, what might be the effect of AI on students' motivation to learn, and their drive to actually pursue education? Already, we are seeing a new adult generation have resigned themselves to a future that will be less than their parents. Many in society primarily see the pursuit of education as a necessary journey and means for better life sustenance: i.e., food and shelter. Consider with AI advances: job market and monetary compensation that depend on academic learning (that goes beyond AI capabilities) will become increasingly scarce. What will be the intrinsic/extrinsic motivation to go to school/college and learn?
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1 年I just reviewed scholarship applications and I’d guess 90% were some use of Chat. I then changed my rubric to reflect how well they used it in terms of editing, non hallucinating content, and selection of tone. It’s a whole new skill set and those with solid critical thinking skills are going to be able to take advantage of the tools. The lazy work will be very obvious. It’s output is only as good as the effort put into it. I’d say almost ALL students will be using it, just some will do better at teaching the AI than others.
Director of Innovation, Project-Based Learning Coach, Curriculum Development, Maker-Centered Learning. Fab Lab, Social Innovation Catalyzeer
1 年I completely agree. In my last high school I gave a pd on chat in Jan 2023. There were a lot of wow ooo etc. My March, there were requests to ban its use throughout the whole program rather than have me teaching the kids how to use it. By May, teachers were giving zeros on assignments they deemed AI generated by some random detector. As a competency, mastery assessment program, the teachers are supposed to give students the opportunity to redo assignments etc. But in this case, they decided not to Give the students the opportunity to redo and resubmit and even almost prevented a senior from graduating until lawsuits were threatened. It’s a PBL program within a progressive southern ca school district and yet their assignments are all goigleable and the promise of project based learning was delivered in dessert hands on products which they called projects. After 4 years that was the last straw for me. The promise of this new program was obviously dead.
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1 年Your points on unfair cheating accusations disproportionately affecting BIPOC and low socioeconomic students whilst high performing kids from more privileged backgrounds fly under the radar Al feel spot on… and particularly damaging. That said, I’m quite fearful of the last two points you mentioned.
Strategic Decision-maker; Collaborative Leader; Systems Thinker; Continuous Improvement Facilitator
1 年A fine line between being optimistic and being realistic. I agree with you, but I do hope that at least some universities will be proactive in this new realm (e.g., that’s my attempt at optimism - albeit limited!)