With AI rapidly developing, students are taking advantage of its vast knowledge, leaving teachers disappointed with the work and the student. The sudden growth of AI has opened up a lot of opportunities, one of them being students using it to do their work.
All of the teachers I interviewed gave the same answer: don’t turn in AI work. One of the teachers, Ms. Martinez, remarked that it’s obvious when a student turns in AI work because they’re using words above their level. For example; she had a student who wasn’t turning in assignments and didn’t work on their essay in class, but by the end of the day they had an entire 4-page essay turned in.
One of Montera’s art teachers, Ms. Recco, had a similar problem. During lockdown when AI was still in its early stages, a student turned in an obviously AI generated image. She called out the student with a sarcastic message, “Why do they have 8 fingers? Is that a stylistic choice?”
I noticed in Mr. Codina’s science class that some people were using AI to answer questions that they thought were too hard. Which completely defeated the point of the assignment. In a brief interview with Mr. Codina, he stated “I don’t like it when students use AI because it’s not their original work and they become too reliant on it.”
Despite their dissatisfaction with students turning in AI work, they think AI in general should be used for better purposes. Ms. Martinez thinks that AI would be helpful in advancing the medical field further. Ms. Recco thinks that AI is good for reference and it’s okay to use AI as only a reference for your art.