January 31, 2025

Is it time to hit the pause button on AI in the classroom?

 Scienceline -  Within a few weeks of OpenAI's ChatGPT hitting the market in late 2022, educators took notice. Maureen Cahill, an English professor at Tidewater Community College, remembers students in one of her literature classes suddenly submitting "weirdly perfect" papers that didn't match the quality of their previous work.

"Look at this," Cahill remembers telling the dean of her department. "No grammar errors, no citation errors, and a couple of them have made-up quotes and made-up material."
 Very quickly, Cahill realized some students were using artificial intelligence to complete assignments. By the next semester, she noticed even more students using AI tools. A 2023 Pew Research Center survey found that about one in five U.S. teens who know what ChatGPT is have used it for schoolwork - and student use of AI may be growing. Some teachers are alarmed by students using AI and think it does more harm than good in education…

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