Day: October 3, 2023

With AI tools becoming increasingly accessible and advanced, many teachers are worried about how to catch cheaters. Less attention, however, is paid to how teachers themselves can use AI tools to streamline lesson planning, generate classroom materials and personalize instruction. “With some of these tasks that we can use AI for, one would hope it would help alleviate some of the burnout teachers feel,” said Allison Bacon, the instructional technology coordinator at Ossining Union Free School District in New York. “We don’t need to be so perfect. [We can] use a tool that’ll pick up the things that we know how to do, but we don’t have the time.” She joked about how AI tools are like a personal assistant. “I’m looking at it as a tool to do my legwork,” said Bacon.
Bacon cautioned that the companies that create AI tools may not be attuned to student privacy laws like FERPA or COPPA, so teachers should reach out to decision makers in their school district to ensure they are following gui..